Philadelphia Union today announced that they have exercised the contract option for Tai Baribo and Nathan Harriel, joining 22 players whose contracts were already guaranteed for next season.<\/p>\n
The club is in on-going negotiations with Alejandro Bedoya (out of contract), Ben Bender (out of contract), George Marks (out of contract), and Mikael Uhre (out of contract). Additionally, the club recently announced the new contract<\/a> for midfielder Indiana Vassilev and the option exercised<\/a> for defender Olwethu Makhanya.<\/p>\n Players under contract for 2026: Markus Anderson, Andre Blake, Jesus Bueno, Bruno Damiani, Eddy Davis III, Jakob Glesnes, Milan Iloski, Danley Jean-Jacques, Jovan Lukic, Olwethu Makhanya, Olivier Mbaizo, Sal Olivas, CJ Olney, Neil Pierre, Jeremy Rafanello, Andrew Rick, Cavan Sullivan, Quinn Sullivan, Indiana Vassilev, David Vazquez*, Kai Wagner, Frankie Westfield.<\/p>\n Option Exercised: Tai Baribo, Nathan Harriel
Options Declined: Chris Donovan, Isaiah LeFlore, Nicholas Pariano, Oliver Semmle
Players out of contract: Alejandro Bedoya, Ben Bender, George Marks, Mikael Uhre
In on-going negotiations: Alejandro Bedoya, Ben Bender, George Marks, Mikael Uhre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union today announced that they have exercised the contract option for Tai Baribo and Nathan Harriel, joining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139,69,71,70,4093,14742],"class_list":["post-45760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-press-release","tag-transaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}