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Ranking the best signings of a busy MLS summer transfer window

Major League Soccer's creation of Targeted Allocation Money allowed teams to buy in the summer transfer market like never before. Here are the best signings of that busy summer.

Like college kids with their first credit cards, Major League Soccer teams have been running around spending like never before. The advent of Targeted Allocation Money, the league mechanism that allows teams to essentially have a fourth player who makes in the salary range of a traditional Designated Player, has sparked a feeding frenzy in the transfer market, and the list of acquisitions is as loaded as any seen in MLS before.