The Union have made no secret of wanting to upgrade their attacking firepower this winter. They haven’t run away from the fact that their end-of-season roster house-cleaning took nearly $3 million in salary cap space off the books.
Combine that with recent reports that MLS is likely to dramatically increase teams’ sums of targeted allocation money — a means of accounting that brings a big-ticket player’s cap hit below the Designated Player threshold — and there is clearly room for the Union to open their checkbook.
Sporting director Earnie Stewart said in a recent interview with the Inquirer and Daily News that his shopping list is ready, and that it’s aimed toward “the offensive part” of the field.