The Sporting Kansas City Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Roman Celentano is a medical away from Sporting Kansas City
The deal with FC Cincinnati is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Lasse Berg Johnsen pops up at the right end — 7.67
7.67, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 16 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lasse Berg Johnsen stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lasse Berg Johnsen and Sporting Kansas City agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Zorhan Bassong out for 32 days
The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Zorhan Bassong, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Deadline beats Sporting Kansas City to Peyton Miller
The clock did what New England Revolution would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Sporting Kansas City rebuffed over Ivo Mammini
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gimnasia La Plata have kept their man, and Sporting Kansas City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match8 Aug 2026
Sporting Kansas City find a way past Houston Dynamo
Houston Dynamo made Sporting Kansas City work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Andrew Robinson joins the Sporting Kansas City first team
- Market Tyler Morris steps up from the Sporting Kansas City academy
- Market DeAndre Morris steps up from the Sporting Kansas City academy