{"id":670252,"date":"2026-01-03T02:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670252\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:33:11","slug":"birmingham-sign-left-back-wagner-from-mls-side-philadelphia-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670252\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham sign left-back Wagner from MLS side Philadelphia Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Birmingham City have signed defender Kai Wagner from MLS side Philadelphia Union for an undisclosed fee.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old German left-back spent seven years in Philadelphia, collecting 63 assists, and is the Blues&#8217; first signing of the January window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has signed a two-and-a-half-year deal at St. Andrew&#8217;sk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a player who always tries to go forward and attack, but who also likes to defend,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcfc.com\/pages\/en\/media-article\/kai-wagner-i-had-goosebumps-when-i-heard-about-the-clubs-project\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the club&#8217;s website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a hard-working club, a club where the fans are really into it and that&#8217;s really important as I&#8217;m a hard worker myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City have signed defender Kai Wagner from MLS side Philadelphia Union for an undisclosed fee. The 28-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-670252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115828831377242985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}