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poklane on 13 January 2015
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Munkeh111 said:
outlawauron said:

Correct. If a player's salary exceeds 350,000/year, then they qualify for a Designated Player slot. Each team can have 3 DP slots. These are usually used for top Hispanic players, older elite European players, or good USMNT players (Dempsey, Donavan, Bradley, Jones, etc.)

Salary cap is expected to nearly double as it should. MLS needs to be able to keep their younger players and be able to entice young players to skip college.

For $350,000 a year, you're not going to be able to keep good young players. If you're a good young player, you can earn $1m at most decent teams if you go across to Europe. I guess doubling it is a good start

You just need a steadier stream of good talent coming through and not going off to play other sports

True, in modern football $350.000 a year is an absolute joke of a salary. Even at a top Dutch team you'll be able to make triple that and you will obviously have a lot of exposure to the bigger leagues. Even benchwarmers in England probably make easy 4x that. Doubling it would be a good start, but you need more otherwise European clubs will just buy away any notable American talent.