SKC signs a well-regarded 17 year old attacking midfielder to a USL deal.
https://www.sportingkc.com/post/2020/07/14/sporting-kansas-city-ii-signs-17-year-old-midfielder-bailey-sparks
There are lots of MLS teams signing prospects to USL deals these days. Frankly, it's getting harder and harder to keep track of it all! There are certainly a lot more signings than I've been posting here.
This one interests me because it's a sign of the times, and it's putting more and more pressure on some archaic and bureaucratic MLS rules. Sparks is from Dallas and previously played for a prominent club called Solar. MLS has ruled in the past that you can't sign kids from other clubs' markets, but technically SKC isn't signing him; SKC II is signing him and MLS rules don't apply to USL rosters. So now Sparks is on the books with SKC II and things will get tricky if/when they want to promote him to the MLS roster. What MLS should do is just get rid of homegrown territory rules and let all clubs recruit anywhere they want, but as it stands now I guess MLS would require SKC to send compensation to FC Dallas for the rights to a player who never had anything to do with FC Dallas.
There are a few other similarly-aged kids who could also be test cases for this situation, like Caden Clark (NYRB II / Minneapolis) and Jack McGlynn (Philly Union II / NYC)