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The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Joe Scally

FC Cincinnati asked and Borussia Mönchengladbach said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Evander wants more than FC Cincinnati are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Evander signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evander commits to FC Cincinnati for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Cincinnati

Evander 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

A row about effort at FC Cincinnati

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

Squad

Samuel Gidi wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at FC Cincinnati can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Transfer targets

FC Cincinnati ask about Ryan Schewe

A loan enquiry to Sporting Kansas City: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Nobody at FC Cincinnati has picked up the phone to Teenage Hadebe

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

The dugout

David Douděra asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief