Welcome to Allocation disorder. I am Sam Stascold, joined as always by my colleague Paul Tenorio.

A little bit of a different show today for you guys.

We were expecting to have resolution on the MLS CBA at this point.

We're recording here on Friday morning.

There is not yet resolution.

The league and the Players Association extended the deadline for talks until 11.59 p.m. Eastern on Friday evening to get a deal done.

It sort of seems like it's trending in that direction.

We wanted to put something out anyway.

We're going to talk about a little bit about the CBA, a little bit about Cincinnati,

a little bit about some of the other moves that have been happening around MLS and involving

MLS players here over the last week or so.

And then we'll get in and out, kind of a shorter show, and then we'll then we'll have more

content and another recording for you at some point after the CBA is resolved. So stay tuned

for that. First, just laying out a little bit further where things stand with the CBA,

the league issued a statement on Thursday evening, announcing that it would extend talks until

Friday. And in that announcement, it basically said that the two sides are making progress

and that there's a decent amount of ground left to cover, but things have moved quite a long way.

From what Paul and I have been told, the league is still still holding firm to the two-year extension through

2027.

And Paul, I'll get your take on this in a second, but if I had to bet on it, I would guess

that a deal would get done through 2027 with some givebacks to the players in the form

of maybe loosening the restrictions on free agency and maybe some gains between

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