2021 General TFC/MLS Banter (no transfer/roster discussion)

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The club's share of transfer or loan fee revenue may only be used as follows:


- The club may assign up to $1,050,000 of the transfer/loan revenue as General Allocation Money. In the case of Designated Players, transfer/loan revenue may not be assigned as General Allocation Money. In the case of U22 Initiative Slot players, please refer to the section on U22 Initiative Roster Slots.

This is a dumb rule and removes all incentive to sell DPs. If MLS wants to be a selling league, you need to allow teams to reinvest that money into other acquisitions.

This is actually a fairly loosely worded measure.It’s good news you can increase your cap space by a million dollars by receiving a transfer fee or loan money.

The regulation isn’t prescriptive enough to prevent the funds from indirectly making their way into a club’s budget for DP’s.

I think MLS just wants to throw up a bit of a smokescreen to prevent any sort of expectation that money in is automatically going to be spent on player acquisition.