# Which podcasts explain the MLS recruitment context?


### 6. How should squad constraints shape the scouting question?

**Title and listen link:** [Episode 55: Ricardo Moreira, Orlando City](https://podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/episode-55-ricardo-moreira-orlando-city/id991610009?i=1000711162030)  
**Who:** Ricardo Moreira, introduced as Orlando City’s General Manager and Sporting Director, on the *Analytics FC Podcast*.  
**Date and length:** **4 June 2025; approximately 64 minutes**.  
**Perspective:** Club practitioner interviewed on a supplier-branded podcast.

**Key takeaways:** The episode covers allocating playing budgets, balancing youth and homegrown players, international scouting, South American market knowledge and the use of data. It connects player assessment to squad construction rather than treating a statistical shortlist as the whole recruitment process. [Episode notes](https://podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/episode-55-ricardo-moreira-orlando-city/id991610009?i=1000711162030). ([podcasts.apple.com](https://podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/episode-55-ricardo-moreira-orlando-city/id991610009?i=1000711162030))

**Desk application:** Put the club’s football and operational constraints into the trial invitation before asking for recommendations. Score whether the supplier answers the actual squad problem.

**Caution:** This is a 2025 discussion, not a current MLS rules reference. Verify live transaction requirements separately.

### 7. How do you assess fit with the existing squad rather than rank players in isolation?

**Title and listen link:** [Goals, Goals, Goals — The Art of Attacking Soccer with Anders Dreyer and Tyler Heaps](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-san-diego-fc-behind-the-f-280687714/episode/goals-goals-goals-the-art-292252841/)  
**Who:** Tyler Heaps and Anders Dreyer, with Adrian García-Márquez, Katia Castorena and Darren Smith on *San Diego FC: Behind the Flow*.  
**Date and length:** **4 September 2025; approximately 40 minutes**.  
**Useful section:** Heaps’s roster-building discussion begins around **09:18** in the published transcript.

**Key takeaways:** Heaps discusses age balance, player types and positional flexibility. The conversation also explains how complementary roles were intended to support the attacking players already selected. These details are available in the publisher’s automatically generated transcript. [Episode and transcript](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-san-diego-fc-behind-the-f-280687714/episode/goals-goals-goals-the-art-292252841/). ([iheart.com](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-san-diego-fc-behind-the-f-280687714/episode/goals-goals-goals-the-art-292252841/))

**Desk application:** Ask a role-fit supplier to explain what a candidate enables teammates to do, what tactical adjustment is required and what evidence would undermine the recommendation.

**Caution:** Much of the episode is contemporary match discussion. The recruitment segment is more useful for this desk than the surrounding results commentary; transcript wording can contain errors.