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Allocation Disorder: Using El Tráfico to explain roster building cycles in MLS, club rebuilds, the challenge of selling players midseason, and more

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4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Allocation Disorder, Paul and Sam use this Saturday’s edition of El Tráfico a jumping-off point for a discussion about roster building cycles in MLS (which is something that LAFC is dealing with right now), club rebuilds (which is something that the Galaxy are dealing with right now), the challenges of selling players midseason, and more. Then it’s on to a conversation about the value of MLS experience and some under-the-radar MLS players that have impressed Paul and Sam so far this year.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskell, joined as always by Paul Tenorio. This week we are brought to you by

0:25.5

drum roll. Warheads. I think they were called Warheads. Those sour candy things. Do you remember

0:31.8

those, Paul? Those things were intense. Why are you talking about them like warheads don't exist anymore?

0:35.9

They very much still exist. I'm not like a big sour candy guy, but I remember being in third grade or so, probably. And those first came out and everyone was like, oh, can you do the super sour one? And it was like a big deal on the playground. Yeah, my brother John's a big warheads fan. Are you? No, you don't seem like it. This one doesn't, this one didn't do it for you. I'm like, you know, chocolate type of guy. This, this sponsor left a sour taste in your mouth. I apologize. Moving on. Big week in MLS, week four of the season we're heading into. Champions League quarterfinals

1:13.2

have wrapped up. It didn't go so great for MLS teams. We'll talk about that in a bit,

1:17.3

along with some of Jim Curtin and Gabriel Hinesse's beef, I guess, we could call it,

1:22.8

as well as a few kind of under the radar things that are sticking out. But MLS this week is pretty heavy on the rivalry matchups.

1:29.6

You've got Red Bull against Toronto, Armis against his old team.

1:35.3

We've got Vancouver, Montreal, a little bit of a Canadian matchup.

1:40.4

Dallas against Houston, Orlando, NYCFC, 2015 expansion battle.

1:45.9

The big one, Galaxy, L-A-FC, and then you have Miami, Atlanta, Portland, Seattle,

1:52.3

and Kansas City, Austin, Beasler, returning back home to Kansas City to take on sporting.

1:58.9

So quite a few big matchups, a lot of national TV games this weekend, Paul.

2:03.6

Which game are you most looking forward to?

2:06.1

And we're going to spend a lot of time talking about El Trafico.

2:09.5

So I'm going to remove that from the list

2:11.9

because we're going to spend a lot of time outside of El Trafico.

2:14.8

Which one are you most looking forward to this weekend?

2:17.2

Yeah, I think if you take El Traffico out,

2:20.5

I think I probably am most excited. I don't want to fake it. I don't want to like lie about what

2:26.9

I'm excited about. I think you always have to be excited about Portland against Seattle. I think

2:32.0

that's, that's always, but I'm a little bit, I'm not going to lie. I'm a little bit disappointed in the Timbers for ruining my preseason prediction that they would win a treble. Yeah, that one's up in smoke already. That one's gone and it's done. So I'm going to say Miami at... I mean, it's not done. I mean, they could still win a treble. They can't. What trouble are they going to win? They can win. I mean, open's not done. I mean, they could still win a treble.

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