MLS commissioner Don Garber confirmed in an interview with Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl that there was "momentum" to spend more targeted allocation money (initially set at $500,000 over five years per team) and MLS's board of governors would consider the issue on Saturday at its meeting in Columbus, Ohio.
"There’s no doubt that the TAM program was successful," Garber said. "And it speaks to our approach that we need to be very strategic about how we improve our rosters at the top with our designated players, at the bottom with our development programs and in the middle through player development and also through the TAM program. I think that three-legged stool is going to be a big part of our thinking going forward."
The TAM program is designed to allow MLS clubs to sign or keep under contract players whose salary budget hits would otherwise be above the maximum for a Designated Player ($436,500 in 2015). That is important as teams are only allowed to have a maximum of three Designated Players on their roster.
LA Galaxy already used its five-year allotment to buy down the salary of Omar Gonzalez, using its five-year allotment of $500,000. It will either have to buy down his salary again in 2016 or trade one of its DPs. The other players on DP salaries are Robbie Keane, Steven Gerrard and Giovani dos Santos.
Absent trading Gonzalez, the Galaxy's best options are to either hope MLS's owners approve more TAM or sell Gyasi Zardes, who hasattracted interest from English club Reading, and use a portion of the transfer fee -- allocation money -- to buy down Gonzalez's salary. (Teams aren't allowed to mix allocation pots for an individual player.)
Garber noted that MLS clubs are spending far more on player salaries than the salary cap of $3.5 million in 2015 that will go up to $4.2 million in 2019, the last year of the CBA. That would include money on Designated Players above the maximum, TAM and other allocation moneys and salaries on young players (Homegrown and Generation adidas) who don't count against the cap.
"We’re spending infinitely more than the $4 million a club across all of our teams," Garber said, "even those that aren’t spending a lot on Designated Players."
Garber noted that MLS clubs are spending far more on player salaries than the salary cap of $3.5 million in 2015 that will go up to $4.2 million in 2019, the last year of the CBA. That would include money on Designated Players above the maximum, TAM and other allocation moneys and salaries on young players (Homegrown and Generation adidas) who don't count against the cap.
"We’re spending infinitely more than the $4 million a club across all of our teams," Garber said, "even those that aren’t spending a lot on Designated Players."
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