Overview
- Toronto will pay an initial $22 million, with add-ons that could raise the fee to about $27 million, in a club-record move ranked among MLS's costliest signings.
- Negotiations stretched from late 2025 through the winter, with Sargent excluded from a Jan. 11 FA Cup tie and training with reserves during the final push to leave Norwich.
- Norwich acknowledged the strained exit but thanked the forward in a statement from sporting director Ben Knapper.
- Toronto, out of the MLS playoffs since 2020, targeted Sargent as a statement centerpiece for its rebuild under coach Robin Fraser.
- Sargent, a 29-cap USMNT striker without a national-team goal since 2019, seeks a club resurgence to reenter World Cup contention.