David Morris

Goalkeeper - Sporting Kansas City U20
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93 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 May 2028

David Morris damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market8 May 2028

Jake Davis 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 The request is on a desk at Sporting Kansas City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings8 May 2028

Shapi Suleymanov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad8 May 2028

Alex Harris: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sporting Kansas City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match6 May 2028

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.

Squad8 May 2028

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.

Squad8 May 2028

Shapi Suleymanov 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.

Match6 May 2028

A bad afternoon for Sporting Kansas City against LA Galaxy

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

Market8 May 2028

The John Pulskamp talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sporting Kansas City know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

Back issues
92 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad1 May 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Morris

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sporting Kansas City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match1 May 2028

Sporting Kansas City are in real trouble now

Position 15, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Player ratings1 May 2028

Nobody could get near Shapi Suleymanov

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match29 Apr 2028

The wait goes on for Sporting Kansas City

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad1 May 2028

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.

Match29 Apr 2028

Sporting Kansas City come up short against Portland Timbers

Portland Timbers left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad1 May 2028

No hiding place for John Pulskamp

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

Squad1 May 2028

Yadin Lugasi wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Sporting Kansas City know it.

Loan watch1 May 2028

Jack Kortkamp has seen enough of Houston Dynamo

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sporting Kansas City, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

91 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad24 Apr 2028

David Morris damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings24 Apr 2028

Nobody could get near Tomás Chancalay

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market24 Apr 2028

Tomás Chancalay wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad24 Apr 2028

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.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Shapi Suleymanov 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.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Too much change too quickly at Sporting Kansas City

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

90 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings17 Apr 2028

Nobody could get near Shapi Suleymanov

Successful dribbles: 50. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Apr 2028

David Morris damages knee ligaments — 41 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 41 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Tyler Boyd breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad17 Apr 2028

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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Words at Sporting Kansas City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shapi Suleymanov 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.

Match15 Apr 2028

Houston Dynamo take the points off Sporting Kansas City

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief