The MLS transfer game is getting a bit more lucrative. Although there’s been no formal league announcement, news of Montreal Impact Homegrown Player Ballou Tabla being sold to FC Barcelona’s B team for a “seven-figure” sum was accompanied by a nugget of information that could dramatically alter the incentive for MLS teams to sell players.
The Impact will reportedly be able to keep the entirety of that transfer fee, as opposed to the 75 percent that MLS teams have historically gotten for Homegrown Players. Maybe even more intriguing is the revelation that $750,000 of that can be turned into General Allocation Money (it had been $650,00).