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August 5, 2025

Issue #20 - Just Waiting...

Update on Thomas Müller's Vancouver Whitecaps transfer and the opening of the Summer transfer window.


Hello!

A week ago, I suggested we’d be celebrating an official announcement of Thomas Müller as a member of the Vancouver Whitecaps FC.

While that might still be the case, with my slight pessimism only related to the bias of a long-time Vancouver sports fan, we’re still waiting for official word.

I also suggested we’d be talking about the opening of the Summer transfer window.

Well, it’s open. But that’s about it on the Vancouver front.

So this week, we’re gonna have a short newsletter.


The View

By most accounts, Thomas Müller to Vancouver is essentially a done deal. Money is sorted. Term is settled. And the MLS book of napkins with rules has been consulted.

Yet Müller has yet to arrive here in Vancouver, and continues to train with Bayern Munich. In itself a reasonable idea, if only to get/keep fit, yet one that does give a little feeling of unease if you’ve been in Vancouver long.

I also imagine any further discussions with other targets are on hold until this gets done done. It will be the largest deal done by the modern-day Whitecaps, so I can imagine all the loonies and toonies need to be counted.

So what might be the hold up? Probably something to do with the MLS rules/regulations/thoughts-on-the-fly.

A post on Bluesky that suggests the MLS rules would fit into the entirety of the Yellow Pages.
The MLS is special.

The Whitecaps FC are back in action this weekend with a match down in San Jose. Whether Müller is official or not, he won’t be playing there. And I doubt he’d be making his debut in Hamilton next week either. That leaves the match after that at home against Houston - which I’ll be missing. 😭

Anywho, we’ll be back next week and hopefully can talk all about where Müller fits into the lineup. Until then.

Andiamo.


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