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Thomas Muller, who left Bayern Munich, will enter the U.S. stage.
The German daily Bild reported on the 30th (Korea time) that Mueller has agreed to sign a contract with the Vancouver Whitecaps, a Canadian club affiliated with the U.S. Major League Soccer (MLS). Mueller will play as a non-designated player for the rest of this season, and his status will change to a designated player starting next year.
Germany seems to be surprised. Mueller reportedly rejected LAFC's transfer offer and decided to go to Vancouver. LAFC is well known to domestic fans as a team that is trying to recruit Son Heung-min (33, Tottenham Hotspur). It has long established a cooperative relationship with Bayern Munich. Müller's choice is surprisingly acceptable considering the large difference between Los Angeles and Vancouver in terms of location size and recognition.
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What stands out in this contract is that Vancouver will pay FC Cincinnati $400,000 (about 550 million won) under the name of 「Discovery Rights」 due to Müller's contract.
'The right to discover' is a unique regulation that applies only to MLS. It is a system that designates up to seven foreign players who are close to free agency status or are active outside MLS. Most of the players who use the right to discover are big league stars, so they are far from the same 'discovery' as the regulation name, but this term is used in MLS. If there is an opportunity to actually negotiate with them, the team using 'discovery rights' will have the right to negotiate first. If a player rejects an offer from a team that has exercised 'discovery rights' against him and transfers to another team, the recruiting team shall pay compensation to the team that wrote 'discovery rights' first.
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It is not a system that is unfamiliar to the priority negotiation right. In the KBO League, it is often used when signing contracts with players returning to their teams from overseas or foreign players tied up with holdouts. In MLB, the team that wrote the highest bid in the posting will also have the priority negotiation right for the player. However, the 'discovery right' that MLS is using is inevitably considered somewhat unfamiliar in that it preempts the priority negotiation right by writing down a list of players in anticipation of future recruitment and even obtains compensation.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
