Editor’s Note: This article is the fourth in a series detailing the effect of money in Major League Soccer. The previous article can be found here, and links to all articles can be found at the bottom as they are released.
Managing money can be a difficult thing.
Luckily for Major League Soccer teams, they pay people to handle that sort of thing.
In the last piece, we looked at the clubs that underachieve, but here we’re going to acknowledge the teams that perform better than their payrolls would suggest.
Inside the Stats: MLS’ infinite expansion leaves some clubs without much history to examine, so we’re ruling three clubs out of this look: LAFC (which entered in 2018), Minnesota United (2017) and Atlanta United (2017).