The only thing constant is change (and Peter Vermes): It is and yet it isn’t the same Sporting Kansas City

By Phil West

Andreu Fontàs, Tim Melia, Alan Pulido, and Johnny Russell aren’t quite as indelibly part of Sporting Kansas City as coach-for-life Peter Vermes, but they have been foundational pieces of the team, playing together the past five seasons. Fontàs and Russell started there in 2018, and Melia’s tenure with the team started in 2015. They’re all gone now, and up until Feb. 1, those exits were the biggest news of the SKC offseason. Certainly, if your team goes 12th, 8th, and 13th in the West over the past three seasons, it’s probably in need of a bit of shaking up.