Peter Vermes has seen all the iterations of Major League Soccer — from 1.0 as a player to 2.0 and now 3.0 as a coach and sporting director at Sporting Kansas City.
In this new world MLS, with an injection of spending across the league through allocation money mechanisms, Sporting Kansas City has largely been on the sideline as that small-spending, small market club that’s struggled previously to attract big-name foreign players to bypass New York and Los Angeles for the midwest.
Sporting Kansas City made a splash Tuesday with the signing of Mexican striker Alan Pulido, a club record-breaking transfer fee reportedly in the neighborhood of $9.