The off-season is here again in MLS, which naturally means a whole slew of rule changes. This year, the league is asking owners to chip in quite a bit more with Discretionary Targeted Allocation Money (Discretionary TAM). Owners may purchase up to $2.8 million of the new Discretionary TAM on top of the $1.2 million of TAM provided by the league in 2018 for a grand total of $4 million in TAM alone and the potential to double a team’s roster budget space.
There are plenty of moving parts when it comes to MLS roster building and the vagueness of assets available to clubs makes accurate analysis difficult.