{"id":713737,"date":"2026-01-22T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/713737\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:50:11","slug":"leeds-united-sunderland-suffer-brutal-striker-rejection-following-current-club-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/713737\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United, Sunderland suffer ‘brutal striker rejection’ following current club fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norwich City<\/a> striker Joshua Sargent<\/a> has reportedly rejected the chance to play for both Leeds United<\/a> and Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old has fallen out massively with the hierarchy at Carrow Road, where the Canaries are battling relegation in the Championship.<\/p>\n

Sargent is currently refusing to train or play for the first team after scoring seven goals in 23 league appearances this term.<\/p>\n

The American marksman is being linked with a shock move back across the Atlantic Ocean to MLS this month.<\/p>\n

Canadian side Toronto<\/a> are supposedly locked in talks<\/a><\/strong> with Norwich over a potential winter deal for Sargent.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Imago \/ IMAGO \/ Focus Images<\/p>\n

Leeds, Sunderland suffer Sargent ‘rejection’\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to TEAMtalk<\/a>, there is no shortage of interest in Norwich wantaway Sargent during the January transfer window.<\/p>\n

The report states that a host of Premier League clubs have enquired about the services of the striker in recent months.<\/p>\n

Adding to that point, it is believed that Sunderland and Leeds were seriously considering swoops for Sargent.<\/p>\n

However, it is understood that the American has rejected the chance to play in the Premier League during the 2025-26.<\/p>\n

Sargent supposedly has his heart set on a move back to MLS, with Toronto pressing hard for his signature.<\/p>\n

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Non-football priorities<\/p>\n

An elite Championship striker when fit, Sargent has the ability to be a useful player in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

However, the 25-year-old clearly has non-football factors at the front of his mind during the current transfer window.<\/p>\n

Sargent and his family want to move back to North America, with the attacker playing men’s football in Europe since his Werder Bremen II days in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norwich City striker Joshua Sargent has reportedly rejected the chance to play for both Leeds United and Sunderland.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,4230,393,68644,94,707,2826,4884,1860,22138,7126,101,4151,93,68303,10938,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-713737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-epl","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-leeds","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-olympics","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-rugby","21":"tag-sport","22":"tag-sports-mole","23":"tag-teams","24":"tag-tennis","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115940492981052886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}