Welcome to Allocation Disorder. We are back. It's another week. MLS is back, back, back, re-restarting. I don't know what to call it, but the games are up and running. Again, as we record here on a Thursday afternoon for a change, not a night game for us, Paul. I am Sam Staskel. He is Paul Tenorio, your hosts, as always. And today, we have a little bit of a different kind of show

for you. We're going to be talking about MLS and selling players. But before we dive into that,

Paul, how are things going? Are you diving headlong into the re-resumption of the MLS season?

Are you taking it slow?

What's your game plan? Yeah, I thought we settled on MLS, colon, still here. Yeah, yeah. You know, I dropped the ball there. We did settle on that. I'm all in, man. I'm going to watch some games tonight. I'm going to tune in to Chicago Fire, Columbus Crew, or something like that. I mean, I get paid to try to watch a few of the games.

That's probably, you know,

contributing to my delinquency in the sense of watching MLS, but, you know, yeah, I'll watch.

Probably a good professional thing to do to get in there and watch some games.

Toronto and Vancouver started things off for the non-Nashville Dallas division of the

league the other night Toronto put a 3-0 hurting on the caps who look pretty miserable.

One thing that Vancouver has not been miserable at, at least in one instance,

is selling players. Alfonso

Davies. He's doing pretty well in the UAF Champions League right now, getting ready to play the

final on Sunday against Paris-St. Germain for Bayern Munich. And of course, he is one of the

shining examples in MLS of players developing in an academy and then being sold for a large fee to a really big European

club. He's kind of the perfect example of it, in fact. You're not going to do better than that,

I don't think, for as long as we're doing this. It's going to be hard to stop. But let's pull

it back a little bit. Two years ago, year and a half ago, December 2018, MLS Commissioner Don Garber, stood in front of a assembly of media before MLS Cup in Atlanta, and he stated that he wanted MLS to become more of a selling league, quote unquote.

That was a significant change. MLS had never more of a selling league, quote unquote. That was a significant change.

MLS had never really stated that out loud before.

In fact, for a long time, they'd worked against it.

They wanted to keep their most marketable stars and best players in the league.

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