The Sporting Kansas City Post
Boardroom27 Nov 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Sporting Kansas City
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Sporting Kansas City is running low.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Words exchanged at Sporting Kansas City
Or Blorian and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad27 Nov 2028
A row about effort at Sporting Kansas City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stephen Afrifa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
The manager makes an example of Thomas Roberts
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
Alonso Coello knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sporting Kansas City, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market27 Nov 2028
Sporting Kansas City put Alonso Coello up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alonso Coello may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- Squad Word from the training ground: Lasse Berg Johnsen
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Wyatt Meyer
- Squad Daniel Acosta back in training
- Loan watch Jacob Bartlett's loan at Portland Timbers nearly up