(I would like to say from the outset that in writing this piece, it was awfully hard not feel like Scrooge McDuck diving into his piles of gold doubloons.)
Now that the dust has long since settled on the transfer of Krisztian Nemeth from Sporting Kansas City to al-Gharafa in Qatar, it is worth a discussion to explore some of the possible uses of the estimated $2 million in general allocation money Nemeth’s transfer fetched for Sporting KC’s kitty (the reports were that the transfer price was over $3 million, but Major League Soccer keeps one-third of all transfer fees of non-homegrown players).