On Tuesday, The Athletic’s Paul Tenario reported a $1.25u200b million offer was made to Crew SC for the club’s captainu200bu200b fromu200b English Championshipu200b side Blackburnu200b Rovers. Columbus turned down the offer from Blackburn sources close to the situation told Massive Report.
“We get offers for players all the time,” head coach and sporting director Gregg Berhalter said. “We set a certain valuation for our players, we know what the cost is to replace quality like Wil’s, so we have to stand firm.”
Handling transfer offers for young players is old hat for Berhalter and the Black & Gold staff.