The Sporting Kansas City Post
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Ethan Bartlow keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sporting Kansas City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market8 Mar 2027
Jansen Miller 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Up for the corner, and Lasse Berg Johnsen delivers — 7.93
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lasse Berg Johnsen scored, was marked 7.93, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Sporting Kansas City count the cost of losing Shapi Suleymanov
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Lasse Berg Johnsen 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.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Too dear: Sporting Kansas City walk away from Cristian Dájome
$200.0K was the most the club would pay and Vancouver Whitecaps 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Sporting Kansas City
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Andrew Brody stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrew Brody and Sporting Kansas City agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Both jobs done by Sean Davis — 7.67
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 13 actions, 7.67, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
In brief
- Match Real Salt Lake take the points off Sporting Kansas City
- The dugout The manager makes an example of John Pulskamp
- Market DeAndre Dest steps up from the Sporting Kansas City academy