Ayoub Jabbari

Attacking Midfielder (L) - FC Cincinnati
9 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Ayoub Jabbari

4 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for FC Cincinnati

0‑1 against Chicago Fire, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Market

Tigres come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FC Cincinnati did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Roman Celentano keeps FC Cincinnati in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Pavel Bucha

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

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.

Squad

Words at FC Cincinnati training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evander is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for FC Cincinnati

A 1‑0 win over Minnesota United FC, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Pavel Bucha runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Luka Romero, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

FC Cincinnati say no — this time

The offer from Atlanta United FC for Samuel Gidi 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.

Squad

Evander 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.

The terraces

FC Cincinnati supporters have found a favourite in Luka Romero

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Luka Romero has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Obinna Nwobodo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

FC Cincinnati share the spoils with Orlando City

A 1‑1 draw with Orlando City leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Roman Celentano has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at FC Cincinnati will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief