Wagner is out of contract after this season, and talks over a new deal have been going on for a while. But Tanner is holding firm on how much he's willing to pay the left back.
. Every time a transfer window approaches, there’s a widespread expectation that he’ll leave, and every time he doesn’t, it’s surprising. Multiple clubs in England and Germany have had interest, but there was never a deal — not least because some of those offers weren’t good enough.
There’s been speculation that Wagner could move within MLS and become a Designated Player elsewhere. But doing so would come with a big hitch. The league’s collective bargaining agreement mandates that if he moves to another MLS team as a free agent, his raise is capped to 15% in the first year, with caps in future years based on what his new salary would be.
“We are not pretty far away, but we are — and we have some principles,” Tanner said. “It’s basically that the outside back positions are not the highest paid. That’s how it is. He’s an excellent outside back, and that’s what we acknowledged already in what we are paying. And we would have improved [it], but we cannot go to hemispheres where we set the wrong tone.”
This all assumes MLS doesn’t change the roster rules this winter. A lot of people hope Lionel Messi’s arrival will spark an overhaul, so more teams can sign big names and build good teams around them.“Everybody’s talking about Messi, and Messi is good for us, I don’t mind that,” he said. “But what we should do is, we should also be strict on the rules. Within the mechanisms we are having, you can spend a lot of money already — that’s not the problem.
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