Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskell, joined as always by Paul Tenorio.

Paul Tenorio, I have a question for you. Is it time to start talking about Adrian Heath as one of the better general managers in MLS?

Wow.

Man, you came at me.

I was planning on doing like a little bit of like I was right and everyone was wrong on this episode.

But I did not expect that as a starting point.

Well, I didn't even hit you with that in pre-show. No. It came out of nowhere. But you know what?

I think that your point, you know, is a good one in the sense that, look, this Minnesota United,

Minnesota United won, right? On Thursday night, they upset top-seated sporting Kansas City 3-0 on the road to go to the Western Conference final.

And when you look at how far this team has come in four seasons, it's actually pretty remarkable.

Because that 2017 roster was awful. I mean, really, really, really one of the worst

rosters we've seen put together in MLS and, you know, until, until Cincinnati came along,

basically. Yeah, a rival of Cincinnati. It's right there. And for Adrian Heath to essentially

turn that roster around in two seasons from when when he and Mark Watson took

power in 2019 over roster decisions to this point is pretty crazy. And I think if you look at

what that roster, you know, what the roster moves have been in the last couple years. I mean, you can

talk about Graygoosh, Alonzo, Dane St. Clair was drafted, Ica Para, Vita Manone, who's no longer

there but was a goalkeeper of the year, Robin Lode, going into this year, you know, Tyler

Miller, who ended up getting injured, but, you know, it's a decent goalkeeper.

DeBasi, Reynoso, they've signed Marlon Hirsten as depth, Jacori Hayes as depth.

Metzeneer, who I don't think.

Metaner, a really good player.

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