Müller’s coming: US expert explains salary in MLS
01.08.2025 21:29 | 1: 49m
Thomas Müller is on the approach to Vancouver, wants to kick for the Canadians in the North American MLS in the future. Other salary rules apply, as an expert at Sport.de explains.
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I have been pursuing the whole thing as a journalist for almost ten years and in the period the league has developed enormously.
It is actually just a list where a club can put on players and then take negotiations. The basic idea is simply behind that it cannot outbid different clubs in the MLS, that they say okay, we just want a healthy salary structure for the entire league. And if you say okay, now an association gets the Discovery Rights, i.e. the rights to negotiate the rights to the player directly, it simply ensures that it was not a building like that. So one like this, such a negotiations, where one club tries to beat others. It is money that you can use to buy the salary from a player down and take care of it. Now let’s say a player is $ 200,000 about that of the Salary Cap. So you cannot register the player because the player is $ 200,000 on the Salary Cap, then you can take this General Allocation Money and buy the contract down. So every club starts with a certain amount at the beginning of the season and it can also be changed back and forth, not only for play rights, but also partly to acquire players or to buy international spots. So if you have as a club, let’s say you have ten international boards, but you still need eleven, then you can actually acquire an eleven from another club with General Education Money, i.e. $ 400 General Allocation Money are not $ 400,000 Allokation Money, but actually a little more.