Sporting Kansas City’s landmark acquisition of Alan Pulido this week is certainly a “sign of the time” in MLS. After years of touting their small-market, budget-conscious spending approach, Sporting KC pulled out the checkbook and asked: “How much?”
It’s now a world head coach and sporting director Peter Vermes believes that Sporting KC will remain engaged in, too.
“There’s a thing called plateau negotiating,” Vermes told reporters in a conference call on Wednesday. “Sometimes when you hit the plateau, you never go down from there. I’m going to assume that we’re in this world now and we’re going to continue to be in this world.