United States worldwide Damion Downs has joined Southampton from FC Cologne on a four-year deal.
The 21-year-old striker, who performed on the Concacaf Gold Cup, scored 10 objectives and arrange 5 extra to assist Cologne to Bundesliga promotion by profitable the German second division final season.
Southampton was relegated from the Premier League final season in England and can host high-profile Wrexham in its opening recreation of the second-tier Championship on Aug. 9.
“All people performs soccer to win titles. To win my first title at 20 final 12 months was an excellent feeling, and I hope to repeat it once more this 12 months,” Downs stated on Southampton’s web site.
“I feel Southampton is a giant membership that ought to be within the Premier League, and that is my aim — to assist the workforce as a lot as I can to convey the membership again to the Premier League.”
German soccer journal Kicker reported Southampton was paying as much as €10 million ($11.7 million) for the American participant.
Downs joins a rising listing of U.S. forwards in England’s second tier. Josh Sargent scored 15 league objectives for Norwich final time period, whereas Haji Wright netted 12 instances for Coventry.
Downs’ Gold Cup teammate Patrick Agyemang can be near becoming a member of one other Championship membership, Derby County, ESPN has reported.
Info from The Related Press was used on this report.