Tyson Pearce

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74 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Emir Karić says Sporting Kansas City went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sporting Kansas City

Shapi Suleymanov 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Sporting Kansas City

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

The dugout

Lasse Berg Johnsen 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.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Lasse Berg Johnsen's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Market

The Luis Otávio question follows Sporting Kansas City around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luis Otávio’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
69 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

John Pulskamp 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 Sporting Kansas City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Idan Toklomati 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.

The dugout

Jansen Miller 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Ali Fadal 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.

Market

Lasse Berg Johnsen linked with a move away

The name of Lasse Berg Johnsen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sporting Kansas City say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Stephen Afrifa 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 Sporting Kansas City, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

51 Edition

The St. Louis CITY SC Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Brendan McSorley puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at St. Louis CITY SC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Terms done: Christian Olivares is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Charlotte Football Club waiting with a shirt. Nobody at St. Louis CITY SC is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

St. Louis CITY SC sign Dylan Nealis for $2.7M

The paperwork is done: Dylan Nealis joins from New York Red Bulls in a deal worth $2.7M. Now comes the harder part.

Transfer targets

St. Louis CITY SC make their move for Ryan Porteous

$2.5M on the table at Los Angeles Football Club. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A falling-out at St. Louis CITY SC

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

Transfer targets

St. Louis CITY SC rebuffed over Hunter Olson

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chicago Fire have kept their man, and St. Louis CITY SC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Tyson Pearce moves on

Sporting Kansas City pay $680.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Transfer targets

Too dear: St. Louis CITY SC walk away from Riqui Puig

$180.0K was the most the club would pay and LA Galaxy were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Words at St. Louis CITY SC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timo Baumgartl 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.

In brief

25 Edition

The St. Louis CITY SC Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lukas MacNaughton

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. St. Louis CITY SC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

St. Louis CITY SC sink to position 14

6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Words exchanged at St. Louis CITY SC

Marcel Hartel 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.

Squad

Tyson Pearce 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.

The dugout

MyKhi Joyner 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.

Market

The Rafael Navarro talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. St. Louis CITY SC know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief