what’s behind his departure

The squad of Inter Miami is on vacation. The team he leads Lionel Messi and that will have to Luis Suarez as stellar reinforcement awaits the start of the MLS 2024, scheduled for the month of February. But the franchise makes numbers and works: it has just announced the departure of Kamal Millera mainstay in the defense of the 2023 Leagues Cup champion.

Martino’s team announced the departure of the Canadian defender on their social networks. “We would like to thank Kamal for his contributions as an Inter Miami player on and off the field, including helping us win our first title, and we wish him all the best for his future,” he said. Chris Hendersonsports director of the pink club.

And he added, looking to the future: “This exchange allows us to continue positioning ourselves positively as our goal is to further strengthen our team with an eye on more titles next season.”

Without a doubt, the executive of the franchise headed by its president Jorge Masby the way of David Beckham, explained the reason for the departure of Miller, a dutiful defender, somewhat rustic but fast and on good footing, with confidence to go on the attack. To be clear, the departure of the Canadian will allow better players to arrive.

According to the statement of the Inter MiamiMiller will go to Portland Timbers in exchange for 625 thousand dollars (500 thousand in 2024 and 125 thousand in 2025) in “General Allocation Money” (GAM), translated as general allocation funds, which will allow him to expand the salary limit imposed by the league on his staff of “normal” players, those who are outside the franchise players (three until 2023), who appear with a symbolic salary value when in reality they earn much more.

This formula is commonly used for those players who stop being a franchise to become part of the roster with the rest of the team, without the need for their salary to be cut excessively. An example in Inter Miami is the case of Jordi Alba. The bottom GAM can be exchanged and used as currency between teams, but not the TAM (the “specific allocation funds”), which establishes a single amount for everyone.

In its agreement with Portland, Inter Miami also ensured that if Miller is sold abroad it will receive an economic percentage of the transfer.

Miller joined Inter Miami in April of last year from CF Montreal and played a total of 35 games for the team, including seven starts in the Leagues Cup, in which he played a fundamental role in achieving the first title in the history of the franchise. His good performances also earned him a call from the Canadian National Team, which is fighting for a place in the 2024 Copa América to be held in the United States.

The group that leads Gerardo “Tata” Martino is strengthening itself to be a protagonist in the MLS after a 2023 in which it bet everything on the hiring of Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets and the aforementioned Alba, in addition to other younger bets such as the Argentines Tomas Aviles y Facundo Farías. The arrival of Suárez plus the hiring of new figures (they went for Marcos Rojo, without success) will allow him to finish arming himself to change the image with which he closed last season, in the last positions of the league.

In addition to the MLS and the rest of the usual competitions such as the USA Cup and the Leagues Cup, Inter Miami will compete in the Concachampionsan international competition that will provide places for the 2025 Club World Cup, for the first time with 32 teams from all over the planet, which will also be played in the northern land.