Major League Soccer will commit an additional $37 million in league-wide player compensation over the next two seasons, the league announced Wednesday.
Each MLS club with receive an additional $800,000 in Targeted Allocation Money in both 2016 and 2017, with $32 million flooding into the marketplace in total. Targeted Allocation Money is essentially aimed at strengthening the depth of each team’s starting XI, filling in the gap between the maximum budget charge of $457,500 and the Designated Players above them.
While raising the question why MLS doesn’t simply raise the salary cap, and while this increase will have little affect on the league’s rank-and-file veterans, such infusion of funds will only serve to raise the overall quality of a league that has rapidly improved in recent seasons.