It doesn't look like Josh Sargent will be spending the season in Germany's second division after all.
The 21-year-old U.S. men's national team striker has been omitted from Werder Bremen's squad for this weekend's DFB Pokal first-round match vs. Osnabruck "due to ongoing transfer negotiations," the 2. Bundesliga side said on Friday. Recent reports have linked Sargent to recently promoted Premier League side Norwich City.
“We are about to come to a transfer agreement for him with a foreign club,” Werder Bremen sporting director Frank Baumann said in a club statement. “Because of this, Josh told us that he wasn’t in the right frame of mind to play on Saturday.