19 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process
20 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

33 days out for Artur after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Houston Dynamo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Marcelo Saracchi 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.

Market

Matt Weah steps up from the Houston Dynamo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matt Weah has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Alex Acosta joins the Houston Dynamo first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alex Acosta is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

A falling-out at Houston Dynamo

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Jimmy Maurer

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jimmy Maurer, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Duane Holmes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Duane Holmes is on it.

Market

Guilherme linked with a move away

The name of Guilherme keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Houston Dynamo say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Artur knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Houston Dynamo, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

41 days out for Artur after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Houston Dynamo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

A row about effort at Houston Dynamo

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

Squad

Duncan McGuire 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 Houston Dynamo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Lawrence Ennali signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lawrence Ennali commits to Houston Dynamo for another 4 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Reese Miller

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Reese Miller, and the manager let it.

Market

Duncan McGuire linked with a move away

The name of Duncan McGuire keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Houston Dynamo say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

18 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Artur out for 49 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Houston Dynamo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at Houston Dynamo

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

Market

Felipe Andrade wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

The dugout

Artur gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Words at Houston Dynamo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diadié Samassékou 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

The Mateusz Bogusz story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mateusz Bogusz signs something — a contract at Houston Dynamo or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Carlos Mercado has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Carlos Mercado has written the date down.

Market

Lawrence Ennali runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Houston Dynamo money.

The dugout

Logan Erb knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Houston Dynamo, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

17 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Artur out for 58 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Houston Dynamo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Only the photograph left for Lawrence Ennali

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lawrence Ennali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Houston Dynamo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Marcelo Saracchi 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Houston Dynamo

Duncan McGuire and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

No hiding place for Andrew Brody

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrew Brody, and the manager let it.

Market

The Lucas Halter story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Lucas Halter signs something — a contract at Houston Dynamo or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Lawrence Ennali 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 Lawrence Ennali trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Artur has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Artur has written the date down.

Squad

Lyle Foster finally belongs at Houston Dynamo

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief

16 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Artur out for 66 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Houston Dynamo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Andrew Brody keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Houston Dynamo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Houston Dynamo

Mateusz Bogusz 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 Houston Dynamo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcelo Saracchi 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.

The dugout

Duane Holmes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Duane Holmes is on it.

Market

Guilherme linked with a move away

The name of Guilherme keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Houston Dynamo say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

15 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Artur breaks a bone — 74 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Houston Dynamo

Héctor Herrera 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 Houston Dynamo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diadié Samassékou 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

Duncan McGuire linked with a move away

The name of Duncan McGuire keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Houston Dynamo say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Máximo Carrizo wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Houston Dynamo will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout

The manager makes Blake Gillingham a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Houston Dynamo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

14 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

82 days out for Artur after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Houston Dynamo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Héctor Herrera wants more than Houston Dynamo 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

A falling-out at Houston Dynamo

Mateusz Bogusz 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 Houston Dynamo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcelo Saracchi 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

8 new faces, and Houston Dynamo are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Carlos Mercado

“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.

Market

The Mateusz Bogusz story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mateusz Bogusz signs something — a contract at Houston Dynamo or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Talks stall between Houston Dynamo and Lawrence Ennali

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

Lawrence Ennali runs his contract down

2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Houston Dynamo money.

In brief

13 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

91 days out for Artur after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Houston Dynamo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Lawrence Ennali

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lawrence Ennali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Houston Dynamo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words at Houston Dynamo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcelo Saracchi 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

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Diadié Samassékou

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Houston Dynamo will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Justin Rasmussen 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 Houston Dynamo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Artur gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

12 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Artur breaks a bone — 99 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Máximo Carrizo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Houston Dynamo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Houston Dynamo

Duncan McGuire 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

No place for Owen Otasowie in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Houston Dynamo are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

Duane Holmes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Duane Holmes is on it.

Squad

A wage question at Houston Dynamo

Jonathan Bond has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

In brief

11 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Artur breaks a bone — 107 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 107 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Mateusz Bogusz 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 Houston Dynamo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Duncan McGuire signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Duncan McGuire and Houston Dynamo agree another 4 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Houston Dynamo

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

Market

Aaron Acosta steps up from the Houston Dynamo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aaron Acosta has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Adam Steffen joins the Houston Dynamo first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adam Steffen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

No hiding place for Reese Miller

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Reese Miller, and the manager let it.

Market

Houston Dynamo pick up Owen Otasowie for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Owen Otasowie arrives at Houston Dynamo with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

The dugout

The manager makes Carlos Mercado a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Houston Dynamo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

10 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Artur breaks a bone — 115 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A falling-out at Houston Dynamo

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

Squad

A step back for Agustín Bouzat at Houston Dynamo

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

Blake Gillingham stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Blake Gillingham and Houston Dynamo agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Carlos Mercado

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Mercado, and the manager let it.

Market

The Mateusz Bogusz story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mateusz Bogusz signs something — a contract at Houston Dynamo or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

9 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lyle Foster

Successful dribbles: 64. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A fracture rules Jimmy Maurer out for 78 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Houston Dynamo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

No end in sight to Houston Dynamo's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Houston Dynamo has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Lawrence Ennali is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Houston Dynamo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Houston Dynamo

Mateusz Bogusz and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

Felipe Andrade wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Houston Dynamo are still strangers to each other

17 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.

Match

Honours even between Houston Dynamo and Seattle Sounders

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Alex Adams: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

8 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Jimmy Maurer out for 85 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Houston Dynamo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Guilherme beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

6 matches without a win for Houston Dynamo

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Houston Dynamo are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Héctor Herrera 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 Houston Dynamo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Houston Dynamo come up short against Los Angeles Football Club

Los Angeles Football Club left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jonathan Bond

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Bond, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Alex Adams faces the questions

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

Squad

Mateusz Bogusz finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Houston Dynamo have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

The dugout

Duane Holmes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Duane Holmes is on it.

In brief

7 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jimmy Maurer breaks a bone — 94 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

No end in sight to Houston Dynamo's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Houston Dynamo has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Mateusz Bogusz 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 Houston Dynamo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Guilherme

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Houston Dynamo promote Tyler Johnson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tyler Johnson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Daniel Zardes steps up from the Houston Dynamo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Zardes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Match

Houston Dynamo caught on 86 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then St. Louis CITY SC scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Player ratings

Nick Markanich was the difference for Houston Dynamo

Marked 7.43. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match

Houston Dynamo share the spoils with St. Louis CITY SC

A 1‑1 draw with St. Louis CITY SC leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

6 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

101 days out for Jimmy Maurer after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Houston Dynamo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Veracruz come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Guilherme slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Guilherme is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

No hiding place for Carlos Mercado

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Mercado, and the manager let it.

Squad

Robbie Robinson is a square peg at Houston Dynamo

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Squad

Houston Dynamo have started building around Mateusz Bogusz

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

The dugout

Andrew Brody 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.

Market

The Mateusz Bogusz story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mateusz Bogusz signs something — a contract at Houston Dynamo or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Still no ink between Houston Dynamo and Lawrence Ennali

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Houston Dynamo, another week without a signature from Lawrence Ennali.

In brief

5 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

109 days out for Jimmy Maurer after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Houston Dynamo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Lawrence Ennali is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Houston Dynamo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

4 matches without a win for Houston Dynamo

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Houston Dynamo are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

Lawrence Ennali signs for New York City while still at Houston Dynamo

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Lawrence Ennali has agreed terms with New York City for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Words exchanged at Houston Dynamo

Duncan McGuire and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Houston Dynamo come up short against LA Galaxy

LA Galaxy left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Guilherme was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Squad

16 new faces, and Houston Dynamo are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Alex Adams to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

  • Squad Joe Brito signs a new deal
  • The dugout Artur gets it from the manager
  • The dugout Andrew Brody knocks on the manager’s door
4 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Lyle Foster runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

St. Louis CITY SC come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Tempers go at Houston Dynamo

Duncan McGuire 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.

Market

Logan Erb attracts admirers

The name of Logan Erb has come up in conversations Houston Dynamo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Luca Howard signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luca Howard and Houston Dynamo agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Alex Adams on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jimmy Maurer

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jimmy Maurer, and the manager let it.

Squad

The formation has left Brian Iloski behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Houston Dynamo will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Match

Point won or two lost for Houston Dynamo?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Portland Timbers? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

3 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Houston Dynamo out

Out, 0‑0 to CF Montreal, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market

Houston Dynamo say no — this time

The offer from Dijon for Agustín Bouzat 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

Jonathan Bond decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Market

So close: Blake Gillingham’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Minnesota United FC moved on, Blake Gillingham reports back to Houston Dynamo, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Player ratings

Nick Markanich beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Duncan McGuire 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 Houston Dynamo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Heung-Min Son

Houston Dynamo asked and Los Angeles Football Club said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Player ratings

Lyle Foster in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Vancouver Whitecaps snatch it back from Houston Dynamo

A goal on 89 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

In brief

2 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Lyle Foster settles it late for Houston Dynamo

The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Lyle Foster decided nobody was going anywhere. Colorado Rapids had no time left to answer.

Market

Houston Dynamo say no — this time

The offer from SJK for Ibrahim Aliyu 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.

Market

Eyes on Agustín Bouzat again

The phone has started ringing about Agustín Bouzat again, and this time the name on the line is Dijon. Houston Dynamo are listening politely and promising nothing.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 15 in, 0 out at Houston Dynamo

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

So close: Nelson Quiñones’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Portland Timbers moved on, Nelson Quiñones reports back to Houston Dynamo, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Boardroom

Houston Dynamo to lose Ibrahim Aliyu for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ibrahim Aliyu 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

Guilherme signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Guilherme and Houston Dynamo agree another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Houston Dynamo

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Danny Musovski

Houston Dynamo asked and Seattle Sounders said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

1 Edition

The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Lyle Foster leads the rout of Sporting Kansas City

4‑0, and Lyle Foster took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Houston Dynamo tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Héctor Herrera raises the bar for Houston Dynamo

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

Squad

Héctor Herrera stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Héctor Herrera and Houston Dynamo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Houston Dynamo

Héctor Herrera and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

CF Montreal join the queue for Nelson Quiñones

Add another name to the list: CF Montreal have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Nelson Quiñones. The answer from Houston Dynamo has not changed — yet.

The terraces

Houston Dynamo supporters have found a favourite in Nelson Quiñones

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nelson Quiñones 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.

Market

Felipe Andrade wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Player ratings

Lyle Foster was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.16. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Guilherme at his very best

Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Houston Dynamo.

In brief