The LA Galaxy announced on Wednesday they have filled their last Designated Player roster slot...with midfielder Riqui Puig.
The 23-year-old, of course, was already on the Galaxy’s roster, originally signing a Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) deal with the club last summer after transferring on a free from FC Barcelona. While at the time some outside the club wondered how LA managed to squeeze Puig into a TAM slot at all, the league apparently approved it all and for now we can only assume everything was on the up-and-up.
But with Puig dominating after his arrival from Spain last season, making him a DP makes sense on two levels.