“He’s a real livewire” - expert view on Josh Sargent

After Norwich City completed the signing of American forward Josh Sargent from Werder Bremen on Monday, canaries.co.uk spoke to Joe Prince-Wright, lead soccer writer and editor at NBC Sports, to learn more about our new recruit.

canaries.co.uk: Can you tell us a bit about your knowledge of Josh Sargent?

JPW: I’ve watched him a lot since he was a youth team player with the USA national team. He banged in goals for fun for the U17s team. He comes from St. Louis which is an area in the US renowned for developing young talent. It has a really strong soccer heritage in producing some great players for the US national team over the years.

He’s kind of taken a different path, he didn’t go to college…