SKC News: Swope Park Rangers Sign Another, USL Re-Alignment and Playoff Changes, No Other Pub Announcement, Former Sporting KC Man on the Move by Chad Smith

The January transfer window has been relatively quiet for Sporting Kansas City. Players have joined the team, but no blockbuster overseas moves have happened. Sporting KC have reportedly signed a new foreign defensive player, but he has yet to be announced.

The pitfalls of the January transfer window could be upon us. Polish website Futbolnews.pl is reporting that MKS Cracovia Krakow from the Polish league are interested in acquiring Sporting KC forward Krisztian Nemeth. Nemeth is coming off his debut season where he scored a record number of goals for a first year player.

This isn’t he first we’ve heard of Nemeth leaving the club. Reports out of his native Hungary have said that Nemeth is unhappy with his salary and looking to move back to Europe to capitalize on his success in the United States. If you are Sporting KC, you simply cannot let this happen.

When SKC made their draft day trade with D.C. United to acquire Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) it was widely assumed that money, along with the other $2.1 million in TAM, would be used to keep the players the team already has. Krisztian Nemeth, along with Benny Feilhaber, would be prime candidates to get some of that money. It’s likely that Soni Mustivar already benefited from some of those funds (though with MLS’ lack of disclosure we won’t know for months).

With Major League Soccer looking to be a league that is among the worlds best by 2022, players like Krisztian Nemeth cannot be sold as soon as they are successful. Let’s hope Robb Heineman, Peter Vermes, and the rest of the Sporting Club executives see it the same way. Otherwise the team will be right back in the situation that they had in 2014 when Dom Dwyer was really the only option to consistently score goals.

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