The FC Cincinnati Chronicle
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
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.
Market9 Aug 2027
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.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
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 targets9 Aug 2027
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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
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 targets9 Aug 2027
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.
Market9 Aug 2027
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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
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
- Squad Luka Prpa stays put
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ayoub Jabbari
- Transfer targets FC Cincinnati try to borrow Ali Fadal