Brayan Vera

Left Back - CF Montreal
13 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Brayan Vera

13 Edition

The CF Montreal Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Matty Longstaff

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Matty Longstaff will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around CF Montreal the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words at CF Montreal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brayan Ceballos 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.

Squad

CF Montreal are still strangers to each other

18 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad

A falling-out at CF Montreal

Owen Graham-Roache and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Fabian Herbers told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Fabian Herbers has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at CF Montreal.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Daniel Ríos

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Brayan Vera knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Brayan Vera trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Matheus Nascimento story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Matheus Nascimento signs something — a contract at CF Montreal or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Olger Escobar has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at CF Montreal 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

Back issues
7 Edition

The CF Montreal Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Sebastian Breza keeps CF Montreal 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Victor Loturi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Victor Loturi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around CF Montreal the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

So close: Henadii Synchuk’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Vorskla moved on, Henadii Synchuk reports back to CF Montreal, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Owen Graham-Roache is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Brayan Ceballos 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

A bad afternoon for CF Montreal against New York Red Bulls

1‑2 to New York Red Bulls, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Owen Morris faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Owen Morris after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Tempers go at CF Montreal

Owen Graham-Roache 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

Frankie Amaya was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

6 Edition

The CF Montreal Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Dante Sealy has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around CF Montreal they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

CF Montreal to lose Victor Loturi for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Victor Loturi has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

A falling-out at CF Montreal

Rokas Pukstas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at CF Montreal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brayan Ceballos 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.

Market

Eyes on Henadii Synchuk again

The phone has started ringing about Henadii Synchuk again, and this time the name on the line is Vorskla. CF Montreal are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

A step back for Frankie Amaya at CF Montreal

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Noah Streit

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Noah Streit has come out of that comparison in the side, and CF Montreal have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Fabian Herbers

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

When it matters, Rokas Pukstas plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief