Allocation Disorder: Inter Miami’s punishment for breaking MLS’s roster rules, analysis of the sanctions, reaction from around the league, and much more
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🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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On this week’s episode of Allocation Disorder, Paul and Sam talk all about the Inter Miami situation (also known as That One Time When Inter Miami Had Five DPs). How severe is the punishment? What does it mean for the club’s future? What do figures from around the league think of this situation? Paul and Sam talk about all of those things and a whole bunch of other good stuff.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Straskel, joined as always by my good buddy, my colleague at the athletic. Paul's in Aurae. Paul, what's up, man? |
| 0:28.6 | Oh, man, you know, just living the dream, Sam, as we like to say around here, allocation disorder just, you know, diving deep into L.S. rules, you know? Is that a thing we say around here? We are living the dream, you know? We get to write about GAN and TAM. I mean, this episode, this episode, we're definitely living the dream. I don't know that there's ever been an episode that's more queued up for, like, our sweet spot than this one. And for those of you who pay attention to the show, those of you who listen to the show |
| 0:56.3 | and pay attention to MLS, you probably already know what I'm talking about. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm talking about Miami and all of those roster rule violations. |
| 1:05.8 | We're going to dive into those in a second. |
| 1:07.9 | You're listening to this hopefully on Friday after it came out. |
| 1:10.9 | The U.S. men's national team played on Thursday night. Paul and I are recording on Thursday |
| 1:14.8 | afternoon. We're not going to talk about the semifinal for the Nations League against Honduras. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm sure Taylor and Joe will have that covered for you in the Total Soccer Show feed. |
| 1:24.1 | So please go listen to that. So we're just going to spend this episode talking about |
| 1:27.6 | Miami. And let's just give a little bit of background. Back in March, MOS announced that it was |
| 1:34.4 | investigating Inter-Maiami for its Blaze Metwiti signing. Blaise-Metwee who signed last summer as a |
| 1:41.3 | targeted allocation money player. Everyone raised their eyebrow at that. Everyone was like, blazeman Tweety, targeted allocation money? Really? Everyone thought he was going to be a DP, and that was going to be their third DP spot, and they weren't going to sign a number nine as a DP, but they got him on a Tam deal. And then they preserved their final DP spot for Gonzalo Iguan, who arrived a few weeks later. |
| 2:03.0 | They still weren't very good. |
| 2:05.8 | They finished 10th in their Eastern Conference and the regular season. |
| 2:09.7 | They snuck into that expanded playoff field and they got walloped by Nashville in the playing round. |
| 2:10.4 | Bad season, Diego Alonza got fired. |
| 2:12.8 | Anyway, MLS announces that they're investigating the Metwee signing. |
| 2:17.3 | Shortly after they announced that he's going to have to count as a DP. |
| 2:21.1 | That means Miami has four DPs. |
| 2:23.1 | They have to buy out Matthias Pellegrini. |
| 2:25.0 | We've covered this on previous shows. |
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