An announcement from MLS board of governors came down the inter-tubes today regarding the mysterious TAM, or Targeted Allocation Money. The amount from 2017 of $1.2 million is being continued (much to team manager’s delight).
However, the big news came in announcing that there will also be an additional $2.8 million in optional ‘discretionary’ TAM available for both 2018 and 2019. Exactly what makes this TAM ‘optional’ and ‘discretionary’ remains unknown by us mere fans.
Per the MLS announcement, TAM may be used in the following ways:
- In order to use TAM on a player, that player must earn more than the maximum budget charge ($480,625 in 2017) in annual salary.