Norwich Metropolis supervisor Liam Manning mentioned he’s hoping to not obtain any bids for Josh Sargent earlier than the shut of the switch window after the United States striker scored for a 3rd straight recreation to begin the brand new season.
Sargent netted his second objective in two Championship video games, having additionally scored within the Carabao Cup in midweek, to present Norwich a 2-1 win at Portsmouth on Saturday.
Sargent, who captained the facet, stays linked with a transfer away from the membership, although Manning is hopeful that he’ll nonetheless be at Carrow Street originally of September.
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“I am hoping Ben [Knapper, director of football] turns his cellphone off so we do not get any calls,” Manning joked.
“Sarge function fashions every thing you need. He is a high particular person, a high skilled. You see his work price and the way he leads by instance. He is high class.”
The 25-year-old, who joined Norwich from Werder Bremen in 2021, was near a switch to Wolfsburg in a deal price in extra of €21 million ($24.4m) earlier this summer time however reportedly turned down the transfer.
Sargent scored 15 objectives in England’s second tier final season and following his strike in Tuesday’s Carabao Cup win over Watford, Manning described him because the “finest Championship striker.”
The Missouri native has additionally received 28 caps for the U.S. males’s nationwide staff and is firmly in rivalry for a spot in Mauricio Pochettino’s squad for subsequent summer time’s World Cup on dwelling soil. Nevertheless, he has struggled to translate his membership kind to worldwide soccer, and has gone greater than 5 years with no objective for the USMNT.
Info from PA was used on this report.
