{"id":406800,"date":"2025-11-26T20:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406800\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:53:17","slug":"philadelphia-union-roster-update-mikael-uhre-out-of-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406800\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union roster update: Mikael Uhre out of contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/philadelphia-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Union<\/a> striker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/mikael-uhre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikael Uhre<\/a> is out of contract and in negotiations about a new deal, the club announced Wednesday in their year-end roster update.<\/p>\n<p>Uhre has spent the past four seasons with Philadelphia, arriving in 2022 from Danish Superliga side Br\u00f8ndby IF as a then-club-record signing. He&#8217;s occupied a Designated Player roster spot and tallied 43g\/28a in 155 matches across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Union are also in discussions with veteran midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/alejandro-bedoya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alejandro Bedoya<\/a> about a new deal. The former US international and 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\/2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> alum, who turns 39 in April, has the second-most appearances in club history (314). He joined Philly in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the Union exercised their contract options for leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/tai-baribo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tai Baribo<\/a> and homegrown defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/nathan-harriel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nathan Harriel<\/a>. The club also recently signed midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/indiana-vassilev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana Vassilev<\/a> to a new contract and exercised their option for defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/olwethu-makhanya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olwethu Makhanya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Philly won their second-ever Supporters&#8217; Shield title. They earned a league-best 66 points in head coach Bradley Carnell&#8217;s first season, before losing in the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tai Baribo (F)<\/li>\n<li>Nathan Harriel (D)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Donovan (F)<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah LeFlore (D)<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Pariano (M)<\/li>\n<li>Oliver Semmle (GK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In discussions\/out of contract (4)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alejandro Bedoya (M)<\/li>\n<li>Ben Bender (M)<\/li>\n<li>George Marks (GK)<\/li>\n<li>Mikael Uhre (F)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/philadelphia-union\/roster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Union roster<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/who-s-in-who-s-out-every-mls-club-s-roster-updates-for-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updates for every team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union striker Mikael Uhre is out of contract and in negotiations about a new deal, the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":406801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,145659,1448,2830,1311,8895,37638,41877,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-406800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mikael-uhre","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-union","14":"tag-sendtonews","15":"tag-transfer-tracker","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115617992702817464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}