MLS has announced it will invest an extra $37 million in player compensation over the next two seasons.
It is a move that the league says will immediately raise the quality of play, allowing teams to increase depth by adding additional high-earning players to their rosters.
"If you look at our rosters, most teams have between five and six high-quality players," MLS VP of player relations Todd Durbin said on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. "We needed to find a way to drive more quality deeper into the roster."
The process began last summer, when MLS introduced a program that allowed each team to spend an additional $500,000 on players.