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Norwich City striker Josh Sargent has completed a move to Toronto FC in a deal worth more than £20m.
The 26-year-old US international has signed a five-year contract with the Major League Soccer side after passing a medical.
The initial payment is believed to be about £15.5m, rising to more than £20m with add-ons, a potential record fee paid by an MLS club. The fee could eclipse Son Heung-min’s £20m-plus
Norwich striker Josh Sargent will join Toronto FC in a deal worth more than £20m, a potential record fee paid by an MLS club.
Sargent is flying out to Canada on Friday before undertaking a medical at the Canadian side, reports BBC Radio Norfolk.
The initial payment is believed to be around £15.5m, rising to more than £20m with add-ons, and he is expected to sign a five-year contract.
Toronto’s
Middlesbrough full-back Lukas Engel has signed for Major League Soccer side Real Salt Lake in a permanent deal.
The Dane spent most of 2025 in the US, making 39 appearances in a loan spell with FC Cincinnati.
Engel joined Boro in the summer of 2023 and played 53 games for the club in all competitions, scoring twice.
His last appearance was in a 2-0 home Championship win over West Bromwich
Birmingham City have signed defender Kai Wagner from MLS side Philadelphia Union for an undisclosed fee.
The 28-year-old German left-back spent seven years in Philadelphia, collecting 63 assists, and is the Blues’ first signing of the January window.
He has signed a two-and-a-half-year deal at St. Andrew’sk.
“I’m a player who always tries to go forward and attack, but who also likes to defend,” he told the club’s website,
Duane Holmes has left Preston North End to join MLS side Houston Dynamo.
Holmes moves to Houston on a deal until the end of the 2026 US season with an option for a further two years.
The 30-year-old played 72 games for Preston and scored six goals after his switch from Huddersfield Town in the summer of 2023.
Holmes is currently out with a broken leg, but his contract
Pelzer was a German defender who played for several teams in his homeland – plus 18 months at Blackburn.
Sadly his time at Ewood Park was blighted by injuries and he managed just one League Cup game against Walsall in 2002.
In December 2019, four years after retiring from playing, Pelzer got his first job with a club – technical director of MLS side Chicago Fire.
A few months into
Crooks scored 23 goals in his time on Teesside, including 11 in the 2021-22 season with his most famous strike coming in the FA Cup at Old Trafford as Boro knocked out Manchester United.
Now he has joined Ruben Selles’ Tigers team with the goal of pulling them away from relegation danger. Hull are 22nd, level on points with Cardiff City directly below them and Portsmouth who are a place