The Sporting Kansas City Post
Squad8 Mar 2027
Miguel Aguilar damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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 Mar 2027
Mariano Miño hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sporting Kansas City can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Sporting Kansas City
Justen Glad 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Sporting Kansas City
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Sandro stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sandro and Sporting Kansas City agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
John Pulskamp 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 Mar 2027
Justen Glad sends Sporting Kansas City past Real Salt Lake
It finished 2‑1, and it was Justen Glad’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sporting Kansas City.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Owen Wright joins the Sporting Kansas City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Owen Wright is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Sporting Kansas City promote Mark Dest from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mark Dest has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Sporting Kansas City promote John Yedlin from within
- Player ratings One of those days for Justen Glad
- Player ratings Dejan Joveljić in the eights