{"id":67559,"date":"2026-02-27T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/josh-sargents-messy-transfer-saga-ends-with-22m-move-from-norwich-to-toronto\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:57:17","slug":"josh-sargents-messy-transfer-saga-ends-with-22m-move-from-norwich-to-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/josh-sargents-messy-transfer-saga-ends-with-22m-move-from-norwich-to-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Sargent\u2019s messy transfer saga ends with $22m move from Norwich to Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Striker was demoted to under-21s after refusing to play <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Recent club form has not translated to USMNT<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/mar\/24\/josh-sargent-norwich-city-usmnt\">Josh Sargent<\/a> joined Toronto FC from Norwich City in England\u2019s second-tier League Championship on Friday, ending a difficult situation in which the striker was exiled to the under-21 squad after he refused to play in an FA Cup match last month.<\/p>\n<p>Sargent, 26, was signed as a designated player through the 2030-31 MLS season. He had eight goals this season and 56 goals in 157 appearances with the Canaries overall<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/feb\/27\/josh-sargent-toronto-norwich-city-transfer-usmnt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striker was demoted to under-21s after refusing to play Recent club form has not translated to USMNT Josh Sargent joined Toronto FC from Norwich City in England\u2019s second-tier League Championship on Friday, ending a difficult situation in which the striker was exiled to the under-21 squad after he refused to play in an FA Cup &#8230; <a title=\"Josh Sargent\u2019s messy transfer saga ends with $22m move from Norwich to Toronto\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/josh-sargents-messy-transfer-saga-ends-with-22m-move-from-norwich-to-toronto\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Josh Sargent\u2019s messy transfer saga ends with $22m move from Norwich to Toronto\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}