In 2022, Sporting Kansas City have struggled. Also struggling, halfway around the world, is Venezia FC, who Sporting KC sold Homegrown midfielder Gianluca Busio to last year. A lot of fans have looked at that sale as one of the big reasons SKC have gone downhill. There is no denying this team is better with Busio on it, but that’s not the reason KC have slipped.
Regardless, fans want Busio back. That only heated up as Venezia were relegated from Serie A to Serie B in Italy for the 2022-23 season. Rumblings of a return climbed higher when Busio was back in KC this past weekend.