Luka Prpa

Central Midfielder - FC Cincinnati
20 Aug 2027
Friday
Process

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54 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Olivier Mbaizo

FC Cincinnati and New York City have settled on $2.0M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

FC Cincinnati say no — this time

The offer from Charlotte Football Club for Kristian Fletcher was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 14 in, 5 out at FC Cincinnati

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Valerio Crespi rejects the move

FC Cincinnati had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Avellino, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Roman Celentano in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Cincinnati this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

FC Cincinnati baulk at the price for Chituru Odunze

Charlotte Football Club wanted more than $420.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market

Bryan Ramírez raises the bar for FC Cincinnati

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at FC Cincinnati heard it as anything else.

Squad

Britton Fischer gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Britton Fischer has just signed for FC Cincinnati, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Cincinnati

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Douděra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

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36 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put FC Cincinnati out

Out, 1‑1 to Los Angeles Football Club, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

The dugout

Brian Anunga says FC Cincinnati went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Jalal Abdullai

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. FC Cincinnati have done the hard part with Molde, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Match

7 unbeaten for FC Cincinnati

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation FC Cincinnati did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Cincinnati

Roman Celentano was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Alvas Powell beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Cincinnati

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Douděra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Ender Echenique signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ender Echenique and FC Cincinnati agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets

FC Cincinnati rebuffed over Lee Young-Jun

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Grasshopper have kept their man, and FC Cincinnati go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief