Allocation Disorder: Atlanta United hire Gonzalo Pineda, the value of Leagues Cup, MLS teams increase their transfer spending, and more
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🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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On this week’s episode of Allocation Disorder, Paul and Sam discuss Atlanta United’s decision to hire former Seattle Sounders assistant coach Gonzalo Pineda as their new manager. How does Pineda fit in Atlanta? What challenges will he face in this new position? And, now that Atlanta have their coach, what other MLS coaching and front office jobs will need to be filled over the next year? Then to close out the show, Paul and Sam chat about Leagues Cup, MLS transfer data, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskel, joined as always by my good friend and colleague Paul Tenorio. |
| 0:26.0 | We've got a good show for you guys today. We're going to talk about quite a few different things. |
| 0:29.5 | We're going to talk about Gonzalo Paneda. He has officially been hired by Atlanta United as their fourth head coach ever and third since the start of the 2019 season, which is kind of wild. |
| 0:39.3 | And we're going to talk a little bit about how that move might affect the broader MLS coaching and GM carousel, |
| 0:45.6 | which looks like it's going to be pretty dang active here. |
| 0:48.7 | Coming up, we're going to talk about some leagues cup and the whole debate going on around that tournament. |
| 0:53.7 | And a few other things few other |
| 0:55.4 | noteworthy things some transfer data from the last window mLS spending some money in ways that |
| 1:01.0 | other leagues are not which is pretty interesting but paul before we get into that how you doing |
| 1:06.1 | today man how's how's the wide world of soccer treating you these days you know know, as it always does, it lifts you up, and a lot of times it smacks you back down. |
| 1:17.8 | Wow. |
| 1:18.4 | We live the life, my friend. |
| 1:19.8 | Let's dive deeper on that. |
| 1:22.0 | Anytime, Sam, that I start to get angry over the little annoying things of our job, I remember that |
| 1:30.5 | I get paid to watch soccer and I'm like, all right. Yeah. I mean, I also have the right words, |
| 1:36.3 | which is the hard part. I'm not great at it. I have to write words. Yeah, that part's hard. But the |
| 1:41.1 | soccer watching part is not. so I'm very fortunate. |
| 1:49.1 | Yes, we both are in that way, except for the writing words part. |
| 1:49.9 | Yeah, that part. |
| 1:50.9 | That part. |
| 1:53.9 | Talking words way better, way better. |
| 1:59.0 | As all listeners of allocation disorder, no, I'm much better at talking words. |
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