{"id":15795,"date":"2025-07-29T08:32:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=621981"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:02:52","slug":"confirmed-thomas-muller-to-join-this-mls-side-as-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/confirmed-thomas-muller-to-join-this-mls-side-as-a-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed? Thomas M\u00fcller to join this MLS side as a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas M\u00fcller, who is a free agent now after decision made to leave Bayern Munich after 2024\/25 season, is looking at different clubs to join. As per reports from an MLS insider, Tom Bogert, the player is close to join Vancouver Whitecaps FC. As per his recent report, the player is on his way to MLS and will join the side in the coming days. However, this news hasn\u2019t been confirmed yet by any of the big journalist of credible sources. So, nothing is confirmed now.<\/p>\n<p>After an illustrious 17-year career at Bayern Munich\u2014accumulating a record\u2011breaking 13 Bundesliga titles, multiple domestic and international trophies, and even a FIFA Club World Cup\u2014Thomas M\u00fcller officially departed the club at the end of the 2024\/25 season. He is now a free agent, but if reports hold true, he may soon head to North America.<\/p>\n<p>Top MLS insider Tom Bogert, alongside Ben Jacobs, has reported that M\u00fcller is in advanced talks with the Vancouver Whitecaps, and that personal terms are nearly finalized. Talks remain ongoing to acquire his \u201cdiscovery rights\u201d from FC Cincinnati, a necessary MLS mechanism for any signing.<\/p>\n<p>Reddit commentary also reflects Bogert\u2019s detail that Vancouver is \u201cnearing total agreement on personal terms\u201d and that only final steps remain before the deal is done.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, M\u00fcller is expected to slot in under the Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) designation for the remainder of the 2025 MLS campaign, before becoming a Designated Player (DP) in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas M\u00fcller, who is a free agent now after decision made to leave Bayern Munich after 2024\/25 season, is looking at different clubs to join. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[941,221,4020,3686,1823,3796,2095,3751,2576],"class_list":["post-15795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-america","tag-bayern-munich","tag-christian-falk","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-mls","tag-muller","tag-thomas-muller"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}