Birmingham City’s Kai Wagner makes shock ‘family’ decision to return to MLS

Family comes first. Birmingham City left-back Kai Wagner stunned fans on Friday with his “family” decision to return to MLS just seven months after making the move to England. The German, who spent the previous seven seasons with the Philadelphia Union, finally got his move back to Europe in January following years of transfer speculation. Kai Wagner has cut his time at Birmingham short after less than a year. Getty Images But the 29-year-old, who shares three children with his wife Jenny, has announced that he’s made the “extremely difficult decision” to return to Philly, where all three of his kids were born. As he read a statement that he called “one of the hardest messages I’ve ever had to write,” Wagner made it quite evident that he was not happy to be leaving the Championship club. “