Allocation Disorder: Ron Burkle pulls out of Sacramento’s MLS bid, what’s next for MLS expansion, Sam Vines and James Sands sign new contracts, and much more
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🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Paul and Sam bring you the latest and greatest news from around the world of Major League Soccer. From Ron Burkle pulling out of Sacramento's MLS expansion bid, to thoughts on what comes next for MLS expansion, to original reporting about the format of this year's U.S. Open Cup (and tons of other topics in between), our intrepid insiders have you covered.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Allocation Disorder brought to you this week by the Keg of Evanston. Rest in |
| 0:22.3 | peace. I am Sam Staskel. He's Paul Tenorio. Paul, what's up, dude? How you doing tonight? |
| 0:28.1 | I'm great, man. You just threw me back to my college days and Monday nights at the Keg. I didn't |
| 0:33.0 | see that one coming. Man, Keg Mondays. May they never be forgotten and never be remembered. I think that's the best way to put it. Big show tonight. Lots to get to, lots of news since we last spoke. What was it? We didn't do a Thursday show last week, right? Was it an early in the week's show? I don't even remember. It's been a while. Sacramento is no longer in MLS, at least for the time being. |
| 0:56.1 | That happened since we last recorded a show. |
| 0:59.3 | That's a big deal. |
| 1:00.3 | We're going to talk a lot about that. |
| 1:02.0 | What might be next? |
| 1:03.3 | MLS expansion in general, teams for sale, the dynamics of that, |
| 1:08.5 | and then a few other things towards the end of the show. |
| 1:10.4 | An update on the U.S. Open Cup and a couple of things. |
| 1:13.6 | A couple of youngsters, solid homegrown and MLS getting some contract extensions, |
| 1:18.9 | implications of those on maybe some national team, maybe some European moves. |
| 1:23.1 | So we'll get into all that, but start in the most important spot. |
| 1:27.1 | And that is Sacramento. |
| 1:28.2 | So last Friday night, around 8 p.m. Eastern Time news emerged that Ron Burkle, who had |
| 1:35.7 | agreed in October 2019 to bring an MLS team to Sacramento, he decided he didn't want to do |
| 1:42.8 | that anymore. |
| 1:50.1 | Citing financial difficulties caused by the pandemic, rising construction costs for the stadium, |
| 1:55.8 | he pulled out and left a living, breathing club out there in Sacramento, |
| 1:58.8 | and a lot of people associated with it and a lot of people that root for it, |
| 2:01.6 | holding the bag, so to speak. So he was the money man. He pulled out of that deal. He was a lot of people that root for it, holding the bag, so to speak. |
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