Major League Soccer has been talking for a little more than a year about becoming more of a selling league. On Friday, they took a couple of steps in that direction.



The league announced its updated roster rules on Friday evening, a little less than 24 hours before D.C. United and the Colorado Rapids kick off the 2020 season at Audi Field on Saturday. Most of the changes were revealed when MLS and the MLS Players Association unveiled the main points of their new CBA earlier this month, but the league did sneak in a couple of significant tweaks on Friday, both of which will further incentivize clubs to sell players.



Most significantly, the league decreased the cut of transfer fees it will take from clubs when they sell non-homegrown players to foreign clubs. Previously, the league took 25 percent of all transfer fees for non-homegrown players. Moving forward, the league will only take 5 percent of those fees.



Shifting from a 75-25 split to a...