The final salary numbers are now in, and the Seattle Sounders will end the year spending about 5 percent less than they were at this time in 2016. Over the course of the year, they’ve added about $1.5 million in annual commitments, the bulk of which will go to Victor Rodriguez (about $1.1 million) and Kelvin Leerdam (about $455,000). The Sounders used Targeted Allocation Money to pay down the cap hit on both players and these figures represent what they’d make if they were here for the entire season.
As usual, it should be said that these figures from the MLS Players Union are hardly definitive and it’s entirely possible that players are getting compensation in forms that don’t show up in this database.