Bumping this thread as a place to put this news. Cerner is selling their KCK complex that was part of the deal to get CMP built. https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article253091543.html
First I've heard of it was in the article. Obviously the unified government is going to look at how the deal they signed is affected by this. But any sort of impact for Cerner/SKC would have to come from someone who's more versed in STAR Bonds and their requirements.
More on the Cerner sale with some of the potential effect it could have on SKC. https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article253221118.html
Basically since the 2 developments were tied together under a new LLC, the county government wanted an established LLC to be involved in case of default. So OnGoal became the guarantor on the deal. Because of that SKC could be on the hook for up to $3m per year over the next 5 years to cover the payroll obligations that the Cerner deal required.
Go incognito! In short, Brownback ********ed over the state by amending Cerner's requirements to maintain their tax incentives. Since the company is trying to sell their Legends office, they will not be meeting employment or tax expectations. OnGoal is a guarantor for those values, so the assumption is, unless things change, the Sporting ownership will owe $3MM a year for the next five years--which the team's rep clearly stated they would pay, as they're not looking to cheat the city or state that's helped put them in a beautiful stadium. That's my best go.
I would doubt that the non-Cerner owners of SKC would have agreed to the guarantee without a backstop agreement from Cerner or the Cerner owners of SKC to cover any losses by the Club. But we may never know that.
which means the owners will find a way to put the ticket-buyers on the hook for that through another fee or something.
https://www.sportingkc.com/news/khiry-shelton-announced-as-a-contestant-on-the-bachelorette 4/1 and all... This might be his best chance to hold up play and still score.
It's MLS media, but they did a xG and xGA ranking, and SKC is one of 8 clubs in the bad defense, bad attack group.https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/expected-goals-what-the-data-says-about-teams-through-mls-week-6
This just confirms what everybody watching SKC has known since the season started, so no surprises there. That really makes me want to sit down on Easter Sunday to watch bad defense-bad attack SKC play good attack-good defense LAFC. An Easter Egg hunt with expected candy would probably be more enjoyable.
The thing that's bugging me is why our attack suddenly is so poor. Missing Pulido and Kinda hurts, for absolute sure, but we missed them a good bit last year and looked okay anyways. Just nobody seems to be in even passable attacking form all of the sudden. A weaker midfield largely plays into it, too, I guess... Is our offense just going to live or die based on if this is a season of good-Salloi or bad-Salloi?
Put together a list of SKC players whose performances week in, week out, this season have meant they have to be on the field, and we would be playing a 2-1-1 ( maybe 2 ).
Yes. Said this elsewhere, but the only reason that SKC 2021 did not suck like they suck in 2022 is because both Salloi (16 G) and JFR (15 G) had career years (or near career, don't know about JFR). It looks like Salloi is back to his old unreliable self and now the attack is LITERALLY only what JFR produces. That's probably why he jumped into the stands and was going to beat some a$$ after the last match. He's working is a$$ off for a team that is on pace for < 30 pts this season.
This are poor and lazy statistics - some teams have played 5 matches and some 7. They are using a cumulative value for the rankings. At least normalize it by making it per match played.
The offense this year is just too predictable (more so than prior years). It's a reliance on Russell to be great. I'm not as down on Salloi yet this year as luke mentioned above, he did put one off the post vs Nashville late, but I'm trending that direction.
But Conrad has the right answer, whether you want to hear it or not. He's getting the year and next year is the make or break.
I listened to it and Conrad makes sense. If PV does not right the ship next season, ownership has no alternative but to sack him.
I'm over Peter as coach but agree with Conrad that he gets another year. Given all he's done for the club he deserves a chance to right the ship.
A nice look at Jake Davis from the Athletic. https://theathletic.com/5082213/202...m=social&utm_campaign=sccrtw&source=twitterhq
The KC digital media/videography teams having been knocking it out of the park for a while, but this is next level.
Nice article in the Star by Sam. https://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/sam-mcdowell/article282273068.html Glad to see that Cliff was digging in on the problems and questioning the players about the coaching. As said before on these forums, it has never appeared that Vermes lost the locker room.