With the league’s recent announcement that another $400,000 per club of Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) would be injected into Major League Soccer (MLS) for 2017, it seems like a good time to explain what the heck TAM is and how it will impact Sporting Kansas City.
Targeted Allocation Money or TAM, was invented for the 2015 MLS season. The league agreed to add $500,000 per team, between 2015 and 2019. Teams can choose to use it or lose it over that time. The rule basically was invented so that the Los Angeles Galaxy could sign Giovani Dos Santos.