Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami announced the departure of Canadian Kamal Miller: what’s behind his departure

The team of InterMiami is on vacation. The team he leads Lionel Messi and this will have to happen Luis Suarez while the stellar reinforcement awaits the start of MLS 2024, scheduled for February. But the franchise does numbers and it works: it has just announced its farewell Kamal Millera pillar in the defense of the 2023 League 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 pitch, including helping us win our first title, and we wish him all the best in his future,” he said. Chris Hendersonsporting director of the pink club.

And he added, looking to the future: “This exchange allows us to continue to position 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 led by its president Jorge Mason par with David Beckham, explained the reason for the departure of Miller, a respectful defender, a little rustic but fast and in good condition, with confidence to go on the attack. To be clear, the departure of the Canadian it will allow the best players to come through.

According to the press release from InterMiamiMiller will go to Portland Lumbers in exchange for 625 thousand dollars (500 thousand in 2024 and 125 thousand in 2025) in “General Allocation Money” (GAM), translated into general allocation funds, which will allow him to expand the salary limit imposed by the League on its staff of “normal” players , those outside the exemption (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 player to join the roster with the rest of the team, without needing to cut their salary too much. An example in Inter Miami is the case of Jordi Alba. The bottom GAM can be traded and used as currency between teams, but not i TAM (or “targeted funds”), which applies to all those who have a single amount.

In the agreement with Portland, Inter Miami also ensured that in the event of Miller being sold abroad they will receive an economic percentage on the transfer.

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

The group he leads Gerardo “Tata” Martino strengthens himself to be a protagonist in the MLS after a 2023 in which he bet everything on the signing of Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets and the aforementioned Alba, as well as other younger players such as the Argentines Thomas Aviles AND Facundo Farías. The arrival of Suárez plus the hiring of new figures (he focused on Marcos Rojo, without success) will allow him to finish arming himself to change the image with which he ended last season, in the last positions of the championship.

In addition to MLS and other usual competitions such as the USA Cup and Leagues Cup, Inter Miami will compete in the Concacampioniinternational competition which will give the right to 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 lands.