Josh Sargent might need missed two months of Norwich Metropolis’s season, however it didn’t cease him from delivering one of many higher campaigns of his profession.
Sargent was named Norwich Metropolis’s Participant of the Season final week after registering his third straight yr with double-digit objectives. The U.S. males’s nationwide group ahead scored 15 objectives and added 5 assists for the Canaries, regardless of lacking 13 matches resulting from a groin damage.
Regardless of Sargent’s greatest efforts, Norwich Metropolis failed to succeed in the promotion playoffs, limping to the end line and ending thirteenth within the EFL Championship desk. Nonetheless, the Missouri native was one of many key brilliant spots within the squad, incomes Crew of the Yr honors alongside fellow attacker Borja Sainz.
Sargent revealed his pleasure and approval for his impactful season, whereas additionally praising the membership’s medical group for serving to him rebound from a troublesome damage.
“[It feels] Excellent,” Sargent mentioned in a membership interview with former Norwich ahead Grant Holt. “Very joyful, I’m clearly extraordinarily honored to have the ability to have this award, so very joyful. I handled the identical factor final season [injuries and knocks] as properly, by no means straightforward getting injured like that, however to be honest, I’ve performed a very good job of getting myself able the place I do get again from damage to hit the bottom working.
“So enormous credit score to all of the physios and medical group for getting me in that place, however I believe I responded very well, bought again hit the bottom working, scoring objectives once more and yeah, I’ve performed a very good job,” he added.
When Sargent arrived at Carrow Highway, the membership was within the Premier League and fought for minutes behind membership legend Teemu Pukki. Sargent scored 4 objectives and added three assists for the Canaries that season, however in the end the membership was relegated to the Championship.
He has since stuffed the void left by Pukki, scoring 44 objectives over the previous three seasons, and shutting in on changing into the sixth participant in membership historical past to tally 50 objectives for Norwich Metropolis. Whether or not or not Sargent stays on the membership for a fifth season stays to be seen, however he admitted that he’s improved majorly since arriving in Norfolk.
“Yeah, I believe once I first bought right here it was a troublesome state of affairs, I used to be taking part in out on the proper wing and I’m by no means going to say no to taking part in that place within the Prem,” he mentioned. “I believe I used to be additionally younger and never as developed as I’m now, nonetheless clearly have an extended technique to go however for positive I believe I’m a special participant now in comparison with once I first got here right here.”
Sargent has three years remaining on his present contract, however has already attracted curiosity from a number of Premier League golf equipment together with recently-promoted Leeds United.