Issa Tall has a chance to impress the fans. #Crew96

Auston Trusty playing as an inverted, ball carrying right center back. Strap in. Let’s fuckin’ go.

Congratulations to Lionel Messi for amassing 67% of the MLS Cup assist total of 2008 #Crew96 Guillermo Barros Schelotto. You approached the general vicinity of greatness, Leo, and that's quite a feather in your cap.

The only part of this that legit winds us up national media who normally have some scruples covering this like it’s anything but what it is. This isn’t the Yankees, Dodgers or Patriots winning. It’s not the Big-3 Heat and it certainly ain’t the Beckham Galaxy. It’s a Cup for and by The League.

Don Garber’s plans tonight: weep tears of joy and Scrooge McDuck through some piles of bills

Don really should be handing the Cup to himself

Fair play to Inter Miami fans. You've been waiting year for this.

Guys, I think I know how to win MLS Cup…

Honestly think this is the right call. Zawadzki is a very good d-mid but truly a national team-caliber CB. And yeah, I still maintain they should just make the godfather offer to bring Eneli back home to be Darlington 2.0.

Feels slightly better #crew96

Fans: "we're looking for an authentic experience with local interest/flavor" Garber/NR: "here's some AI slop, you pigs. How about an NFT? I dunno, Messi won't/can't do media. Shut up "

Ofc today—OF ALL DAYS!—Fifa decides to present a shambolic award to Trump when we’ve had our award ceremony scheduled FOR MONTHS! Well, their shameless display shouldn’t overshadow the humanitarian work of our honoree. We are proud to announce Guy Fieri as our 2025 GCGBAG World Peace Prize winner!

🧵 As members of the #Dignity2026 coalition, we want to highlight this important thread from the Sport & Rights Alliance on human rights, transparency, and supporter protections ahead of #WorldCup2026. We encourage ISC members and friends to read the full thread.

Very relevant today. Fan views on the US Open Cup and Leagues Cup.

We’re so back!

Over the last 18 months, #crew96 have lost their team President, best player and coach to Europe. How do these teams and/or portfolios even *know* about these guys when the MLS calendar isn’t aligned with the top European leagues!?

There's something about Wilfried Nancy's exit from #Crew96 that was sticking in my spleen, so I vented a bit. No paywall on this one. Have a nice day. www.thedisrespected.com/wilfried-nan... www.thedisrespected.com

Now that Wilfried is Officially Gone, we can say it: Jimmy needs to poach Gregg from Bridgeview #3Gpeat

Coach, what an honor it has been to watch you grow our team and our Columbus community. We have so much to be thankful for that you’ve brought us. You’re a part of keeping the tradition that Columbus is the greatest team the world has ever seen, and we wish you luck at Celtic with the Bhoys! 💛🖤

Two decades ago, Wilfried Nancy arrived in Montreal with a backpack — now he leaves for Celtic as the best MLS coach ever. With an unparalleled impact on results, tactics, and personnel (including at MLS's worst club), Nancy is the GOAT. On Wilfried Nancy's legacy for @backheeled.com ⤵️

Big offseason for #Crew96. We'll get to see if Issa Tall's slow pace was due to Nancy's reluctance to add players (I have a hunch some of it was) and if they can retool the team in a way that makes 2026 a fun year (if not a competitive one).

We’d be lying if we said this doesn’t leave a bitter taste in the mouth. But recency bias is A Thing and we’re willing to chalk it up to that. Dude still belongs in the Circle of Honor yesterday. #crew96

THANK YOU WILFRED NANCY!!! 💛🖤💛🖤 #Crew96

It’s official. Wilfried Nancy has departed #Crew96 to take the reigns at Celtic.

Boom #Crew96 No Damet 👀

It was a magical time to be a #Crew96 supporter under Wilfred Nancy. @calebdenorme.bsky.social returns from his slumber to pay tribute to the former boss. massive-report.com/2025/12/03/w...

Darlington Nagbe #Crew96 press conference “official retirement” tribute happening at the exact same time as official Wilfried Nancy hire announcement by Celtic in Glasgow. Pure coincidence, right?

It’s Giving Tuesday and we are once again asking you to stand with refugees. Donate to our CRISmas fundraiser to help us make the holidays more special for refugee and immigrant families in our community! www.gcgbag.com/member/gcgba... #crew96

“If there’s one lesson we all should have learned over the past decade: don’t piss off Crew fans.” #Crew96

Free Newsletter: Two more offseason guides. This time we look at a Nashville team that needs to be smart about how they use their open DP slot, and a Crew team that's kind of walking a knife's edge. open.substack.com/pub/tacticsf...

Please just happen already so Columbus #Crew96 can officially start looking for a coach.

If you, too, have an obnoxious American soccer fan who’s made European primacy over MLS a load-bearing element of their personality in your life, check on them. They may try to put on a brave face, but they are *not* okay.

It brings us no pleasure to break the news that @acesradio.bsky.social is in fact a Michigan Football podcast

I mentioned a bit about Wilfried Nancy's suitability for Celtic in this, too. At least in terms of his mindset and approach to the game, I think it's a really good fit, and I hope it goes well for him. Article online here morningstaronline.co.uk/article/foot...

Gonna be amazing to have that MLS match in Minnesota or Chicago between thanksgiving and Christmas in 2027. Remember the league plans for a home match at least every three weeks. Gotta play once at home between those holidays

We’re more than halfway toward our #CRISmas fundraising goal! 🖤💛 Take a break from navigating the bleak Hellscape of Late-Stage Capitalism that is Black Friday and help make the holidays truly special for refugee families in our community! Donate here: www.gcgbag.com/member/gcgba... #crew96

An excellent assist from Antony tees up Cucho Hernández to break the deadlock for Real Betis 🤩

Players already under contract: G: Hagen, Laapkes, Schulte. D: Amundsen, Cheberko, Farsi, Herrera, Zawadzki. MF: Arfsten, Brown, Chambost, Gazdag, Habroune, Mrowka, Picard. F: Abou Ali, Rossi.

New post for thedisrespected.com subscribers: A look at post-Wilfried Nancy era for #Crew96. Q&A with GM Issa Tall (which was conducted pre-departure of Nancy). Talk about roster decisions, to be released Wednesday morn. Have a nice day. www.thedisrespected.com/tall-order/

Never got how they tried to force Star Wars references when the stadium’s clearly a Borg Cube so let’s call it “The Cube” and lean in with “resistance is futile” and what not

*Mariah voice* IT’S TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME for our annual GCGBAG #CRISmas fundraiser! We’re collecting donations to sponsor refugee and New American families for the holidays. Help us reach our goal! Donate 🎁: www.gcgbag.com/member/gcgba... #crew96

A reminder that @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social always brings up, you can call a stadium whatever you want. You don’t have to do free advertising for a corporation.

Coaches, like players, should look at Columbus and say, when succeed there, then I will get calls from big jobs and Columbus will help me get there. And if I don’t want to leave, Columbus has been willing to pay for success to keep me…as evidenced by the offer to keep Wilf.

This is an underrated point. #Crew96 have only fired one of their last three coaches—and that guy still captured some silverware. The other two? One was hired to lead the USMNT and the other’s been tapped to take over the most decorated team in Scotland and a perennial Champions League qualifier

A successful organization should expect to be raided, but the sign of a healthy one is an organization that is ready at all times to unleash underlings who were prepped to takeover.

#Crew96 wanted to redo Nancy contract and make him the highest paid coach in #MLS. But Nancy wanted to keep Euro options open, as noted by @brimackay15.bsky.social. Nancy has returned from Europe I’m told. All coaches are off on a break. thedisrespected.com

Sources: Celtic finalizing deal to name Wilfried Nancy their next manager. Columbus Crew will get compensation. Now, Crew need to find new head coach. W/ @paultenorio.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...

Change is inevitable, especially in sports, but I hope Issa Tall has learned a valuable lesson about how he handles roster management. #Crew96

Don’t cry because it’s over, fusslads. Cry because it didn’t need to happen. In a just world—a world of The Law, governed by Righteous Men and Women—your suffering would have ended weeks ago after being eliminated on aggregate in the 1st round. But for men like Don Garber, cruelty *is* the point.