Key Highlights
- Historically, it has also ushered in a near-mandatory squad rebuild, a consequence of MLS’s parity-driven design.
- With rare exceptions, great teams find it nigh-on-impossible to keep the band together, or to improve on what they already have. Not so for Inter Miami this year.
- After a slew of high-powered offseason additions capped by Friday’s $15m capture of Monterrey striker Germán Berterame, a historically fortunate franchise has gotten even better; completely unlike the 29 MLS Cup champions that preceded them. MLS to cut a quarter of Spanish-language broadcast talent on Apple TV, according to sourcesRead moreThe trend had persisted for obvious reasons.
- MLS is a league with a strict roster-building rulebook.
- Teams can sign six marquee players who hit the cap at different levels, categorized as either designated players (“the Beckham rule”) or U-22 initiative signings (the … Jhon Duran rule?). Often, signing a new designated player leads to the most dramatic changes to a team’s potential.