Mirror Football is reporting that Derby County midfielder Robbie Savage could be joining the Vancouver Whitecaps for their inaugural Major League Soccer season.

“The presentation they made to me was brilliant,” Savage said. “To be honest, it blew me away.”

Savage, 36, is the Derby captain. He joined the club in 2008 and has made 105 appearances, scoring five goals. Derby plays in the Football League Championship division, the second tier of English soccer after the Premier League.

He previously played for Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City and Leicester City.

He also made 39 appearances for the Welsh national team before retiring for international play in 2005.

Savage said he is awaiting a decision for Derby on the move.

“I am fully committed to Derby and seeing out the end of my contract there but Vancouver have asked whether they will release me so I can be ready for the MLS season starting in March,” Savage said. “Derby have got a big decision to make and if they say I can go, then so have I.”

Mirror Football reports that Derby is likely to reluctantly give Savage permission to leave because Whitecaps chief investor Jeff Mallett also is a part owner of Derby County.

Savage is a media-savvy star who also works as a commentator for ESPN and BBC. He is also a columnist for Mirror Football.

He would lend immediate star power to the expansion Whitecaps, much the same way Freddie Ljungberg did for the Sounders in 2009.

The Whitecaps also hold the first pick in Thursday’s MLS SuperDraft.

“They are a new team in the MLS, they’re moving to a new £300m stadium and they are very ambitious,” Savage said of the Vancouver club. “The chance to be part of making soccer popular in America, alongside people like David Beckham and Thierry Henry, is obviously very tempting.

“But it is up to Derby now, and depending on what they say I will then talk to my family, and to the BBC and ESPN.”

Read the entire Mirror Football report here.