Whether it be calling for a front seat during a road trip, fighting for that last slice of pizza, or wanting to sign World Cup winner and Bayern Munich legend Thomas Müller in a blockbuster summer move for MLS , calling dibs is important. So important that it has its own rules in the league.

Müller recently made headlines after joining the Vancouver Whitecaps through an atypical but significant mechanism in MLS's single-entity structure called the Discovery List.

The "discovery" part of the rule often raises quizzical eyebrows. How can you discover, for example, a 35-year-old German international? The regulation allows teams to "discover" and select up to five non-MLS players (with certain exceptions), and those teams can be first in line to negotiate an MLS move. If two or m

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