With the focus right now on the question of whether Sporting Kansas City will extend the loan of young Designated Player Diego Rubio from Real Valladolid in Spain (the Star's Sam McDowell is reporting that the clubs are presently haggling over a possible extension), it is also worthwhile to take stock on the circumstances surrounding another Sporting KC youngster on loan--but in this case, a loan away from the club: homegrown center back Erik Palmer-Brown.
Palmer-Brown has spent 2016 on loan to FC Porto, the Portuguese powerhouse club, and specifically with their B side that plays in the second division of Portuguese soccer, the LigaPro.