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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
Championship strugglers Leicester City are poised to name former player Gary Rowett as their new head coach.
BBC Radio Leicester report the 51-year-old, who was sacked as Oxford boss two months ago, took training on Wednesday.
Rowett now looks set to be the permanent replacement for Marti Cifuentes, who was sacked three weeks ago.
The Foxes are third from bottom in the Championship, two points adrift of safety with 14
Italian midfielder Edoardo Bove is set to make his first appearance in the Watford matchday squad since joining the Championship club last month.
The 23-year-old has not played any first-team football since suffering a cardiac arrest while playing for Fiorentina against Inter Milan in Serie A in December 2024.
But new Watford boss Ed Still has confirmed Bove will be on the bench for his first game in charge at
Boro set marker & Wrexham show play-off credentials – Sam Parkin’s EFL takeaways
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Sheffield Wednesday captain Barry Bannan has told team-mates that Saturday’s Championship game at Bristol City will be his last for the club.
The 36-year-old midfielder has made 434 league appearances for the Owls since joining in August 2015.
The former Scotland international, whose deal expires at the end of the season, has been linked with a move to promotion-chasing Millwall.
Wednesday have been in administration since October and despite naming
Derby County are set to make their first signing of the January transfer window with Danish midfielder Oscar Fraulo joining from Borussia Monchengladbach.
The 22-year-old is set to join for a cross-border compensation fee of between €300,000-400,000.
The club have been chasing him for a year, a time span that pre-dates interim recruitment lead Leigh Bromby and head coach John Eustace so this would fall into the category of an
Arsenal are set to sign 16-year-old Ecuadorian twins Edwin and Holger Quintero, with the pair to officially join the Gunners when they turn 18.
They are due in London this week to finalise the move and are expected to sign five-year contracts, which would start from August 2027.
Right-sided winger Edwin has been likened to Brazil forward Neymar by local media, with Holger – an attacking midfielder – compared to
No club in the history of the second tier of English football has had a bigger season-on-season drop off at this stage than Sheffield United.
The Blades, who finished third last time out before losing to Sunderland in the play-off final, won 33 points* in their opening 15 games in 2024-25.
This season, 15 games have brought just 10 points.
For context, even allowing for a 12-point deduction, Wednesday only
Boro are second in the table, five points behind Coventry City.
Hellberg, who spent his playing career in the Swedish lower leagues, has a year to run on his Hammarby contract.
He began his coaching career in the Swedish lower divisions with Kuddby IF, moving to IF Sylvia before joining the staff at top-tier club IFK Norrkoping in 2020.
His first head coach’s role in the Allsvenskan came at IFK
Hellberg has been in charge at Hammarby for the past two seasons and has led the Stockholm club to successive second-placed finishes in the Allsvenskan, Sweden’s highest division.
He has a year to run on his contract, meaning Swansea would have to pay a compensation fee to secure his services. However, the size of the fee is not likely to be an issue for the Welsh club.
Hellberg was in
