2018 Roster Discussion
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Always thought he looked better on the left wing myself.
So, according to The Atlantic, MLS is about to give teams $3mil over 4 years for U20 international players.
https://theathletic.com/359370/2018...oney-to-purchase-young-international-players/
https://theathletic.com/359370/2018...oney-to-purchase-young-international-players/
Anything interesting after the first three paragraphs? In particular, does Tenorio clarify whether it's a one-time $3m chunk good till 2022, $3m/year, or other?
So we can we use Young Player Allocation Money retroactively on Medina? When will the YAM be announced?
I broke down and subscribed, it's a good article with lots of details.
The answer to your question is no, but it doesn't matter much for Medina: "While the fund cannot be used on players already in MLS, a source indicated teams with eligible players already on loan will be able to use the fund to sign those players to a permanent deal. ... Players signed under the Youth Transfer Fund would hit teams’ budgets at the same rate as young Designated Players—either $150,000 or $200,000 depending on age. The Youth Transfer Fund would encompass both transfer fees and salary expenditure above that youth DP charge."
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Sounds like YAM will go into effect in the summer transfer window.
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Shit is about to get insane. I expect this to be used on top players in mid range academies and they'll simply leave for profit after a year or two. MLS is going to make some significant progress.
Just to be clear, is this money from the league that is to be used by clubs, or a rule that allows clubs to use their own money in a new way?
"The Youth Transfer Fund money is discretionary, multiple sources said, which means team owners will have to opt in to use all or some of the $3 million."
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Do they address how they are going to treat any transfer fees teams receive from a sell-on? I know Medina doesn't qualify, but lets just take him as an example and assume we blew the entire $3million on him this summer. What happens if we sell him in the Summer 2020 for 6 million? Does the 3 million in the fund get replenished? If so, what happens to the other $3 million?
Point being, it's all well and good MLS is letting teams get more aggressive acquiring guys, but they also need to address how transfer fees club receive are administered.
Call me a commie but I don't like this being discretionary. I want all teams involved in this.
Commie.
Honestly, though, MLS is making its own elaborate roster rules more and more farcical. The amount of discretionary money available to teams by this summer will be more than the supposed salary cap, and thanks to DP spending the payroll gap is already at European levels of disparity. At what point do you drop the act and just let teams buy who they want?
Yep. Drop all discretionary & youth/senior descriptions, and simply slap a luxury tax on teams that are over a cap threshold. Done.
They're basically maintaining a cap on the salaries of average domestic talent while allowing almost all other spending to go unchecked, and they're using byzantine rules to modestly disguise this.
In theory, I don't necessarily agree with that. If anything, they should be freeing up cap money for domestic players as they are moving a whole bunch of the foreigners who were counting $200-$500K on the cap to $150K cap status (TAM, this knew one, and young DPs). In theory that should free up pure cap money for domestic/green card players (I say in theory because all these categories are so new that the team salary cap structures still need time to shake out).
Now if you want to say a $4 million cap figure is too low, that's one thing, but until they give out more international roster slots, the available money for domestic/green card talent should be growing (albiet slower than the TAM guys).
Having said that, I agree the entire system is farcical and needs to be simplified.
So we have 3 million of YAM and can still buy a DP level player with TAM. Summer is going to be real fun.
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