Wyatt Meyer

Central Defender - Sporting Kansas City
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
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The Sporting Kansas City Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Zorhan Bassong shuts the door

Defensive actions: 49, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Lasse Berg Johnsen

Defensive actions: 37. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market

Stephen Afrifa is on his way

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

Match

No end in sight to Sporting Kansas City's wait for a win

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

Squad

Sporting Kansas City count the cost of losing Or Blorian

54 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Tempers go at Sporting Kansas City

Oswaldo Alanís 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 hiding place for Lasse Berg Johnsen

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

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Ethan Bartlow

Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

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Shapi Suleymanov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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The Sporting Kansas City Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Stefan Cleveland decides it from twelve yards

2 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Manu García

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Sporting Kansas City out of the cup

Austin FC ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

John Pulskamp keeps Sporting Kansas City in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

4 matches without a win for Sporting Kansas City

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sporting Kansas City are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Sporting Kansas City

John Pulskamp 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

Dejan Joveljić 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Sporting Kansas City against Portland Timbers

0‑1 to Portland Timbers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Dejan Joveljić misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

In brief

1 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Zorhan Bassong

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Stephen Afrifa asks to leave Sporting Kansas City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Manu García stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Manu García and Sporting Kansas City agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Sporting Kansas City

Shapi Suleymanov 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.

Match

Houston Dynamo take the points off Sporting Kansas City

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

One of those days for Capita

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Jake Davis 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

49 months and counting on Emir Karić

Still no offer on the table, and Emir Karić’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

Costly mistake from Stefan Cleveland

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Stefan Cleveland knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

In brief