Atlanta United announced today it has agreed to a multiyear contract with recently acquired defender Brooks Lennon that will keep him with the club through 2023.
Atlanta acquired Lennon, 22, on December 2 from Real Salt Lake in exchange for $150,000 in General Allocation Money (GAM) and $150,000 in Targeted Allocation Money (TAM). He started his youth career in Real Salt Lake’s residency program in Arizona. After a 31-goal campaign during the 2014-15 U.S. Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) season, Lennon signed with Liverpool of the English Premier League where he spent two years in their academy, mostly with the club’s U-23s.