MLS unveils roster details of all 29 clubs. Here’s what we learned about Inter Miami
Major League Soccer released a list Thursday of every team’s roster profile as of May 1, detailing when each player’s contract expires, and which players are classified as designated players, TAM players, U22 initiative players and homegrown players.
It is the latest effort by the league to make its complicated roster composition process more transparent.
Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets, and Leo Campana are the three Inter Miami designated players, which means their salaries exceed the league maximum salary budget charge of $683,750.
Last year, according to the MLSPA salary guide, Messi’s guaranteed annual salary was listed as $20.4 million, though he did not get all of that because he didn’t join the team until July. Busquets, who also joined in July, was listed as $1.77 million, and Campana made $549,996 last year.
Jordi Alba, Luis Suarez, Julian Gressel, Nico Freire, and Sergiy Kryvtsov are listed as TAM players, which means their salary budget charge falls below DP level after being reduced by targeted allocation money, an annual pot of money all teams receive from the league to attract elite players with less of a budgetary impact as a DP.
The U22 initiative players are Tomas Aviles, Diego Gomez, Federico Redondo, Emerson Rodriguez and Facundo Farias. Rodriguez is unavailable for the roster because he is on loan to another team and Farias is unavailable due to a season-ending injury.
Players whose contracts expire at the end of 2024 are: Suarez, Robert Taylor, Robbie Robinson, and Freire. The contracts of Alba, Kryvtsov, Franco Negri, Rojas, Ryan Sailor, CJ Dos Santos, and Marcelo Weigandt go through 2024, but include options for 2025 and in some cases, beyond. Messi and Busquets are signed through 2025.