According to SI.com’s Grant Wahl, Major League Soccer is set to give teams $400,000 of targeted allocation money each in addition to the $800,000 that had previously been announced last year. Since the cash-infusion comes in the form of TAM it will need to be used by teams to bring in or retain players whose salaries are over the designated player threshold.
The Portland Timbers have made significant use of their TAM since its introduction two years ago, buying down the contracts of Fanendo Adi, Darlington Nagbe, Diego Chara, and Liam Ridgewell. The most notable use of TAM for the Timbers was in buying down Adi’s salary cap hit, which allowed the team to bring in designated player Lucas Melano during the 2015 season.