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On this episode, Taylor, Ryan, Graham, and Joe answer your lovely questions! You can find the full list of questions we tackled down below:

1) Has Daniel Levy been a good steward for Tottenham Hotspur?

2) Can we just take a minute to pour one out for the end of Ray Hudson’s time calling La Liga games?

3) Who is the best poop-houser in the USMNT pool?

4) Would Christian Pulisic make every national team roster?

5) If we were suddenly drafted to be a Premier League center referee for a league game, how long would it take for the players to figure out we were unqualified?  

6) What are the major European leagues planning to do during the 2022 World Cup, which will be held squarely in the middle of their seasons?

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With the USMNT's first World Cup Qualifier coming up on Thursday, Taylor and Joe spent some time watching Hugo Pérez's El Salvador team to learn about how they play, how they can cause problems for the U.S., and how the U.S. can cause problems for them! Before the El Salvador preview, we talked in-depth about Ricardo Pepi's performance against Austin FC, Gianluca Busio's first Serie A game for Venezia, Tyler Adams' evolution, and much more.

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It was a packed weekend of soccer action! On this episode, Taylor, Ryan, Graham, and Joe discuss games from around the world, starting in the Premier League before dipping into MLS, France, Scotland, and more.

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On this week’s episode of Allocation Disorder, Paul and Sam react to the USMNT’s World Cup Qualifying roster, discuss MLS and Liga MX’s relationship, and answer some of your mailbag questions!

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On today’s show, Ryan Bailey and Graham Ruthven answer your listener questions! More specifically, these listener questions...

1) Scotland in the 70's and 80's seems to have had a lot of top-end players. Is it correct to say Scotland underperformed heavily in that era and if so, what were the reasons?

2) Is Poophousery strategic? Can it be taught? Can it elevate an otherwise less-skilled team to success at scale?

3) We hear a lot of criticism about Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. To flip it positive: what is Ole really good at?

4) Is retiring a jersey a thing in soccer? Should Barcelona retire the No.10 jersey?

5) Did Liverpool trick everyone into thinking Coutinho was good, or was he actually good?

6) What would happen if FIFA changed the throw-in rule to allow any types of throws. Which would be the most used? Would throw-ins become a bigger or smaller part of the game? Would there be throw-in specialists?

7) Is the FIFA video game a positive for kids to play? On one hand, it helps kids get into the sport and understand some of the roles. On the other, it’s not a very accurate facsimile of the game and some traits appear under or overvalued.

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Gregg Berhalter’s roster for the USMNT’s first World Cup Qualifying window dropped on Thursday, so Taylor and Joe are here to talk about it! What do we think of the roster? Were there any notable omissions? How big of a prospect is Ricardo Pepi? We discussed all of those things - and many more - on the show.

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Journalist and author Simon Kuper joins the show to discuss his out-standing new book, The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making - and Unmaking - of the World's Greatest Soccer Club. The book itself functions as a semi-biography of Cruyff, Messi, and the club as a whole, but also provides fascinating insight into the present lives of modern superstars. What do they eat when they hang out together, how much more cautious are they in the age of cell phones and how life at La Masia prepares athletes for both The Camp Nou and also Spartan military society. Sorta. Plus, the strange way Johan Cruyff greets people on the telephone, how Barcelona's steadfast plans for signing Ousmane Dembele were thrown out the window in the first 5 seconds of their meeting, and much much more!

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It’s Americans Abroad time! On this episode, Taylor and Joe recap how seven USMNT-eligible players performed over the weekend, ranging from Germany to Italy to England to France. You can find the full list of players that we discussed down below:

1) Josh Sargent

2) Tanner Tessmann 

3) John Brooks

4) Gio Reyna

5) Joe Scally

6) Tim Weah

7) Julian Green

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On today's episode, Taylor, Ryan, Graham, and Joe review some of the biggest games of the weekend! We discuss Arsenal vs. Chelsea in the Premier League, Leipzig vs. Stuttgart in the Bundesliga, Inter Milan vs. Genoa in Serie A, Inter Miami vs. Toronto in MLS, and more. 

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Christine Cupo is back on the show to preview Juventus ahead of the 2021-2022 Serie A season. We get into what Pirlo could have done differently to keep his job and what Allegri's opening priorities will be in his second stint with the club. Which players will benefit from his return, which mainstays from last season could find themselves on the outs, and how are the fans feeling about club chairman Andrea Agnelli? All that and much much more... including A LOT of anxious talking about Weston McKennie.

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