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Inter Miami use ´buy-down´ to afford superstar squad

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Inter Miami wasted little time in improving their squad in the off-season, adding two new forwards to Gerado ´Tata´ Martino´s roster. Luis Suárez joins up with his former Barcelona teammates and two-time MLS Cup winner Julian Gressel offers another attacking option. But with Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba also at the club, how can Inter Miami satisfy the league´s stringent salary restrictions? Each MLS club has a maximum of three Designated Player roster spots, with all other players only able to receive a limited salary. Non-DP players have a Maximum Salary Budget Charge of $651,250 per year . However a player´s earnings can be supplemented with up to $1,000,000 from the team´s Allocation Money budgets in a process known as a ´buy- down´. This reduces the team´s ability to strengthen in other areas but allows them to concentrate resources on certain non-DP signings. Who are Inter Miami´s Designated Players? Unsurprisingly, when Lionel Messi arrived in MLS last summ...

England's Euro 2024 squad: Who's on the plane?

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England's Euro 2024 qualifying campaign couldn't really have gone much better for Gareth Southgate, who can now look forward to leading the Three Lions at a fourth major international tournament. The trip over to Germany may end up being Southgate's last hurrah as England boss, and he can certainly look back on a job well done escaping a group containing Euro 2020 winners Italy and the always dangerous Ukraine with barely a scratch. England won six of their eight games - completing an impressive double over Italy in the process - and took a home of share of the spoils in their other two; the 1-1 draw with North Macedonia disappointing but certainly not the end of the world. Attention now turns to who Southgate will take with him to Euro 2024, with England's squad depth and emerging young talent leading to high, high expectations from many. Some players are guaranteed to be boarding the plane to Germany, others will feel confident in where they're currently at, while...