Sam Moore

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The Sporting Kansas City Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sporting Kansas City turn down St. Louis CITY SC for Capita

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Sporting Kansas City walk away from Stuart Hawkins

$2.6M was the most the club would pay and Seattle Sounders 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.

Transfer targets

Sporting Kansas City bid $960.0K for Xavier Valdez

The offer went to Nashville SC this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Business is business: Ryan Schewe goes

New England Revolution paid $1.4M and Sporting Kansas City took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

André Luiz 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.

Player ratings

Shapi Suleymanov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

Inter Miami CF tell Sporting Kansas City: Rocco Ríos Novo is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Player ratings

Emir Karić stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.79 on the card, and the Sporting Kansas City support went home talking about one name.

Loan watch

Justin Reynolds counts the days

“I watch every Sporting Kansas City game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FC Cincinnati runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

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