here<\/a>. Or find it on the UNion\u2019s official website.<\/p>\nOne 2026 Philadelphia Union roster question remains unanswered. It involves left back. Who is Kai Wagner\u2019s replacement?<\/p>\n
Aside from that question, the roster with which Bradley Carnell, his assistants, and the technical staff will assay the opening of the 2026 soccer season seems in place. Left back will probably be covered as it would have been had Wagner been suspended or temporarily injured, by Nathan Harriel judging by remarks from Carnell.<\/p>\n
The Union are in a roster transition. One its goals is to get younger, so we list the expected squad with their ages. Our classifications of \u201cBest XI\u201d, \u201cPrimary reserves,\u201d and \u201cDeep reserves\u201d are guesses. Readers should evaluate them against the evidence of the live-streamed preseason scrimmage against Tampa Bay Saturday evening. Our other categories are known. Players not yet officially announced but unofficially certain are in [brackets]. The uncertain midfielder is omitted.<\/p>\n
Pos
\nPlayer
\nFr, 6-Feb<\/p>\n
Best XI<\/p>\n
1
\nGK
\nAndre Blake
\n35.2<\/p>\n
2
\nLB
\nNathan Harriel
\n24.8<\/p>\n
3
\nLCB
\nOlwethu Makhanya
\n21.8<\/p>\n
4
\nRCB
\nJaphet Sery Larsen
\n25.8<\/p>\n
5
\nRB
\nFrank Westfield
\n20.2<\/p>\n
6
\nDM
\nDanley Jean Jacques
\n25.7<\/p>\n
7
\nDM
\nJovan Lukic
\n24.0<\/p>\n
8
\nAM
\nMilan Iloski
\n26.5<\/p>\n
9
\nAM
\nIndiana Vassilev
\n25.0<\/p>\n
10
\nS
\nBruno Damiani
\n23.8<\/p>\n
11
\nS
\nEzekiel Alladoh
\n20.4<\/p>\n
Primary Reserves<\/p>\n
12
\nS
\n[Agustin Anello]
\n23.8<\/p>\n
13
\nAM
\nCavan Sullivan
\n16.4<\/p>\n
14
\nAM
\nAlejandro Bedoya
\n38.8<\/p>\n
15
\nDM
\nJesus Bueno
\n26.8<\/p>\n
16
\nCB
\nGeiner Martinez
\n23.1<\/p>\n
17
\nOB
\nOlivier Mbaizo
\n28.5<\/p>\n
18
\nGK
\nAndrew Rick
\n20.0<\/p>\n
Deep Reserves<\/p>\n
19
\nS
\nStas Korzeniowski
\n23.0<\/p>\n
20
\nS
\nSal Olivas
\n19.6<\/p>\n
21
\nS
\nEddy Davis
\n19.6<\/p>\n
22
\nAM
\nCJ Olney
\n19.1<\/p>\n
23
\nD\/AM
\nJeremy Rafanello
\n25.8<\/p>\n
24
\nCB
\nFinn Sundstrom
\n19.2<\/p>\n
25
\nLB\/M
\nBen Bender
\n24.9<\/p>\n
26
\nRB\/M
\nGio Sequera
\n20.0<\/p>\n
27
\nGK
\nGeorge Marks
\n26.2<\/p>\n
\u201cLoan Aways\u201d<\/p>\n
28
\nS\/AM
\n[Markus Anderson]
\n22.2<\/p>\n
29
\nCB
\nNeil Pierre
\n18.3<\/p>\n
Supplemental Roster Slot 31 \u2013 full year loan to Union II<\/p>\n
31
\nCB
\nKaiden Moore
\n18.7<\/p>\n
Injury recovery and rehabilitation<\/p>\n
32
\nAM
\nQuinn Sullivan
\n21.9<\/p>\n
Vignette two<\/p>\n
If as seems probable the Philadelphia Union\u2019s top three strikers in 2026 will be Bruno Damiani, Ezekiel Alladoh, and Agustin Anello, and if the unofficial social media reports available from trustworthy sources are also correct, Philadelphia has spent nearly $10 million to acquire its top three strikers. At the times they were announced two of the transfer fees were said by the club to be club records.<\/p>\n
2026\u2019s probable top 3 strikers<\/p>\n
Player
\nDate acquired
\nReported fee<\/p>\n
Ezekiel Alladoh
\n03-Dec-25
\n20y\/o
\n$ 4,500 K<\/p>\n
Bruno Damiani
\n18-Feb-25
\n22y\/o
\n$ 3,400 K<\/p>\n
Agustin Anello
\nT B A
\n23y\/o
\n$ 2,000 K<\/p>\n
Jonathan Tannenwald of the Philadelphia Inquirer says he has been told the Anello fee is closer to $ 2 million than $ 2.5 million claimed by some on the internet.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Here are the top four non-homegrown attacking players of the previous group for comparison.<\/p>\n
Their predecessors<\/p>\n
Player
\nDate acquired
\nReported fee<\/p>\n
Julian Carranza
\n23-Dec-21
\n21y\/o
\n$ \u2026500 K<\/p>\n
Mikael Uhre
\n27-Jan-22
\n27y\/o
\n$ 2,800 K<\/p>\n
Tai Baribo
\n2-Aug-23
\n25y\/o
\n$ 1,500 K<\/p>\n
Daniel Gazdag
\n11-May-21
\n25y\/o
\n$ 1,800 K<\/p>\n
The Union are spending more money to acquire attackers, not spectacularly more but noticeably so. The recent attackers seem younger.<\/p>\n
Vignette Three<\/p>\n
San Diego FC likes Philadelphia Union Academy players.<\/p>\n
Two of them played as substitutes Tuesday evening February 3rd in the western conference side\u2019s surprise 4-1 home leg trouncing of Pumas UNAM of Liga MX. It was MLS\u2019s first participation in this year\u2019s version of the Concacaf Champions Cup. Liga MX is in mid-season. MLS is just starting.<\/p>\n
Left midfielder David Vazquez substituted in the 63rd minute and headed home San Diego\u2019s go-ahead goal in the 76th. Anisse Saidi replaced Anders Dreyer at right wing in stoppage time.\u00a0 Saidi\u2019s appearance was a only cameo. But Vazquez\u2019s turned out to be the match winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy Philadelphia Union Vignette one Here is the link to watch the preseason scrimmage against the Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-458248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}