A couple of hours before Don Garber took the stage for the MLS state of the league address, and a day before MLS Cup, Major League Soccer made a major change to their byzantine rules. The amount of Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) available to each team have been going up consistently since being introduced in the summer of 2015 — yes, it seems like it’s been a lot longer than 2.5 years — and using it intelligently has become a major factor for the construction of any good MLS roster.
The news today is that MLS has approved a massive expansion of how much TAM teams can get their hands on.