Real Salt Lake’s Jefferson Savarino has played his way into an important position for his club and has been making steady progress on doing the same for his country.
But in doing so, a difficult position for RSL fans arises: He’s now apparently finding himself as a target for bigger, spendier clubs — and in this case, it’s apparently Newcastle United and West Ham United (what is this, the MLS Eastern Conference?!) according to a report from Sky Sports.
Now, Sky Sports will publish nearly any rumor under the sun, as it’s very much their wheelhouse, so let’s not take this as gospel quite yet.