New Rules
MLS announced on Friday the latest details related to the salary cap and roster budget rules for the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
Each MLS team will have $2.4M of targeted allocation money to spend on their rosters in 2018 and 2019 ($1.2M per year), which is an amount commensurate with 2017’s $1.2M TAM allotment. Additionally - and this is the big news - each team will now have the ability to spend an additional $2.8M per year in 2018 and 2019 in order to purchase an equivalent amount of “discretionary TAM.