Maurice Malone

And you can see that Valerius is about that height.

He's a little bit shorter than Maurice Malone, who, again, you know, from talking to him, he might be a little bit taller than Yeboah, and he's a little bit taller than Valerius.

So, um, maybe Valerius does have a future at right back or in central midfield or something, 'cause he-- maybe he's not quite as tall as we thought he was.

Uh, I, I sort of joked that this was the hard-hitting height updates that people were following me on social media for, but there is, there is something to that of, "It's international week.

But Anthony Markanik gets in behind the back line again.

A beautifully weighted pass to Maurice Malone in his maybe fourth game with the team, trying to make a good impression with his teammates, trying to make a good impression with the fans.

And he's a left-footed player.

I don't know if he's thinking he's trying to get this to the left or he just sort of totally lacks concentration here.

I'm not exactly sure what he's going for, but he doesn't quite put it in.

Jackson Reagan takes this off the line.

John, when you saw that moment happen, like what was the what was the first reaction seeing Maurice Malone biff that shot right in front of the net?

I mean, I think everybody in Minnesota had the same reaction, which was it was two words, and the first one was holy, and the second one varied according to your taste, I think.

So, I mean, that's a coach-speak answer, but he certainly is identifying the guys that I would have guessed he probably also would have identified there.

I asked a little bit just to see if he gave some off-the-wall answer about how Maurice Malone was going to be the...

It really had that attacking quality and was really going to be the guy that they turned to.

Obviously, I don't think that's going to be the case.

oh well yeah yeah

but that's also when i had absolutely no idea now i have a little bit more but yeah all right let's get into question one multiple choice with the recent release of the mls roster profiles we have learned that maurice malone holds this roster designation oh is he a gam player a tam player or a spam player Which of those roster designations is Maurice Malone?

Well, I'm sure one of those answers is made up.

So we're going to take Spam off the board right away.

Momo DeJang is, I think, a question mark for this team.

Yeah, I agree.

Especially bringing in Maurice Malone.

I haven't been overly impressed with Maurice Malone, but I do think Momo DeJang still has...

Yeah.

I need to apologize to Morris Duggan and Maurice Malone.

Might as well apologize to Mauricio Gonzalez while I'm at it.

Just preemptively.

But what about the previous six weeks? And I know they're doing their work, but like.

if you are aggressive early in the window, you can pivot earlier in the window and they've, they leave themselves no room for error when they try to do all their business on the back end while these other teams have players that have been in for six weeks now and are like fully integrated with their team.

We have Maurice Malone, AZ Jackson and Sherry and Valerius coming soon.

Right.

He talked a little bit about the guys he brought in.

The guys he brought in, Maurice Malone and Aziel Jackson and the guy who's not here yet, Jerrion Valerius, who's still going through the visa process.

Guys who might contribute, maybe not guys who are going to be nailed on starters right away.

There were a couple years ago when the loons brought in Joaquin Pereira and Jefferson Diaz and somebody else.

Now that they're just sort of playing with one attacking midfielder, there's not a lot of spots right there for guys to play that position.

Aziel Jackson's been coming on kind of late.

Maurice Malone we saw yesterday against Dallas, another guy who's sort of coming on late, sort of that third striker in the team.

And then Valerius, I guess, we'll see what his role ends up being.