The Sporting Kansas City Post
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
André Luiz was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Sporting Kansas City make their move for Danny Musovski
$2.2M 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
Too dear: Sporting Kansas City walk away from AJ Marcucci
$2.3M was the most the club would pay and New York Red Bulls 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 15 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 $2.4M — a club that wants Danny Musovski enough to be asked twice.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sporting Kansas City promote Owen Wright from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Owen Wright 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Tim Aaronson joins the Sporting Kansas City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tim Aaronson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Ryan Zardes steps up from the Sporting Kansas City academy
- Market Sporting Kansas City promote Tyler McKennie from within
- Squad Lasse Berg Johnsen reaches 200 appearances