Routine in front of MLS adventure
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This article was first published on July 27th at 9:03 a.m. and has now been updated with new information on the Vancouver Whitecaps.
After 25 years as a player of FC Bayern Munich, Thomas Müller starts a new adventure. The 35-year-old chose the Major League Soccer as his next destination. On Saturday, Müller posted a video in which he announced that “over the big pond” will be going on in the coming week. For a long time, FC Cincinnati, which holds its Discovery Rights, and the partner association of FC Bayern, Los Angeles FC, were the most likely destinations for the 2014 world champion. However, a new candidate has been added to the Vancouver Whitecaps since Saturday.
Update 2:01 p.m.: According to the “picture”, it will amount to the Canadians. Accordingly, specific conversations are currently being held, only the last details are to be clarified. There is a contract in the room until the end of 2026. Müller is said to have canceled the LAFC because the association and Cincinnati could not agree. Bayern as a partner club of the Californians are also informed.
The biggest obstacle remains FC Cincinnati, which holds Müller’s Discovery Rights and, according to league sources, demands a high transfer fee that is significantly higher than the amount, which La Galaxy, for example, paid for the acquisition of Marco Reus’s rights to Charlotte last year. Negotiations for Müller’s rights are currently considered the greatest obstacle to switching to the MLS.
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The whitecaps were acted as a potential buyer during the week during the all-Star game of the league. Müller was offered to the club from Canada through a MLS broker, but a change to Vancouver was initially impossible, especially since the need elsewhere would be more urgent. The Whitecaps do not have a free designated player place and need reinforcement for defense. It appeared that the matter was done first.
In fact, it seemed more difficult to bring Müller into the MLS in the past few days than his warehouse and the league expected. Müller was offered several clubs in the MLS. One of them was also Philadelphia Union. A report of the “Philadelphia Inquirer” However, the salary demands were too much of an obstacle. According to league sources, the acquisition of the Discovery Rights from Cincinnati is the greater obstacle. A reason why the LAFC, which has long been connected to Müller, who was considered the desired goal of the player, focused on the Korean winger Heung-Min Son from Tottenham Hotspur.
Thomas Müller to the Vancouver Whitecaps: Complicated way to the MLS
Since the Union is out of the race, LAFC looks around for other candidates and Cincinnati is not a preferred goal on the player side, according to the League Transfer market information, the League still fears that Müller could still be oriented elsewhere. In the past few days, the A-League club Sydney FC has contacted the veteran. This tightened the situation so that the league searches for solutions internally to enable a deal. After consulting several sources, the transfer market assumes that Müller would be available as part of a Targeted allocation-money deal, similar to Rodrigo de Paul, who recently signed with Inter Miami CF.
As far as his possible role in Vancouvers was concerned, Müller could fill the gap that Stuart Armstrong left behind at the beginning of the season. The whitecaps had been looking for a midfielder for the upheaval for a long time and had several candidates in Europe. Müller would now be the big solution, but also the biggest star that has ever worn the whitecap’s jersey. Whether the 35-year-old will end up in Vancouver or elsewhere in the MLS depends entirely on Cincinnati. You have the rights to Müller and thus the key to his arrival in the league in your hand.