Emergency Pod: Dejan Joveljic Being Sold?

<p><a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/tag/for-the-glory-kc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">For the Glory KC</a> is back with the 192nd episode of the show!</p><p><a href="https://www.sportingkc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sporting Kansas City</a> have had an incredibly busy week. The last six days has seen <a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/08/17/2026/sporting-kc-manu-garcia-mutually-terminate-contract/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the departure of fan favorite and Designated Player, Manu Garcia</a>. The arrival of the <a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/08/20/2026/sporting-kc-signed-the-fourth-most-expensive-transfer-in-mls-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fourth most expensive player in MLS history</a> in <a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/08/18/2026/sporting-kc-sign-club-record-transfer-andre-luiz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andre Luiz</a>. A rumored even more expensive <a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/08/21/2026/sporting-kc-chasing-new-york-city-fc-dp-fernandez/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transfer of Nico Fernandez Mercau</a>.</p><p>But Saturday night may be the biggest news yet. Fabrizio Romano and Tom Bogert are reporting that <a href="https://kcsoccerjournal.com/08/22/2026/report-sporting-set-to-trade-joveljic-to-seattle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dejan Joveljic is moving within the conference</a> to the <a href="https://www.sounderatheart.com/">Seattle Sounders</a>! You&#39;d think it&#39;d be a massive transfer fee, but instead it&#39;s <em>only</em> $6 million for one of the best goal scorers in Major League Soccer. Yes, it&#39;s a 50 percent profit after only 18 months, but it&#39;s a stunner.</p><p>We go through all the reasons this could be happening and try to make sense of the news. Did Dejan want out? Did he not like how the Manu saga went down this week? Sheena did live sleuthing on the podcast and noticed he&#39;d been absent from their social media all week. When David Lee told us midweek that teams are calling about their players, it seems clear Dejan was always the answer, and he may have already been negotiating at that time.</p><p>Beyond that, is Dejan just not a system fit for Lee and Rapha Wicky? Or perhaps Lee just wants <em>his guys</em>. The typical starting lineup only has two players that were around more than 11 months ago in Jake Davis and Zorhan Bassong. Is the General Allocation Money (GAM) just too much to pass up?</p><p>We go through all the permutations. And we talk about