As the defending MLS champions, already with targets on their backs, are discovering the price for winning, is it punishment or parity?
The Los Angeles Football Club team that won the organization’s first MLS Cup four months ago would cost an untenable 30% more to field in 2023.
“Going into the next season, there are no rules that disadvantage a champion team,” LaBrie said. “There are rules that redistribute some of the allocation, some of the salary budget space, as we call it, to the teams that didn’t make the playoffs or the teams at the bottom. This is traditionally within American sports a common concept.”
The Designated Player rule and mechanisms, such as targeted allocation money, offer exceptions to the overall cap by providing teams options to spend more. After capturing two of the three competitions it entered during Cherundolo’s debut MLS campaign, this new group will vie for twice as many trophies over the next 10 months, presuming they qualify for the playoffs.
In more ways than one, the Black & Gold were fortunate that Welsh forward Gareth Bale retired instead of sticking it out and blowing a superstar-sized hole in LAFC’s budget, partly because starters Jose Cifuentes and Diego Palacios did not move to Europe as expected. “We are entering a period where our budget is very constrained at a time when their value is at their highest having just won an MLS Cup, so it’s really difficult,” Thorrington acknowledged. “It’s not a level playing field in some regards.”
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