The Sporting Kansas City Post
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
André Luiz scores twice — 8.78
Two goals and a mark of 8.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market10 Aug 2026
Barnsley come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sporting Kansas City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Sporting Kansas City make their move for Danny Musovski
$2.3M on the table at Seattle Sounders. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Dawid Bugaj due for a Sporting Kansas City medical
Everything agreed with CF Montreal, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 12 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Sporting Kansas City until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Sporting Kansas City go back to the board over Danny Musovski
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.5M — a club that wants Danny Musovski enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
André Luiz signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” André Luiz and Sporting Kansas City agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Sporting Kansas City
John Pulskamp and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Sporting Kansas City agree a free transfer for Luca Petrasso
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
In brief
- Transfer targets Devin Padelford stays at Minnesota United FC as time runs out
- Market One of our own: Sam Adams joins the Sporting Kansas City first team
- Market Sporting Kansas City promote Christian Weah from within