There will be not one, but two Americans hoping to play key roles for EFL Championship side West Bromwich Albion this season.
George Campbell has joined the English second-tier side in a permanent deal from CF Montreal, both clubs announced Friday. Campbell signed a four-year contract with the Baggies after joining for an undisclosed fee.
“We’re happy to welcome George to the club. At a relatively young age, George arrives with significant first-team experience,” West Brom sporting director Andrew Nestor said. “His progressive play, positional versatility and physicality adds to our defensive unit, further strengthening our options.
“He has been in season since February and can now join our pre-season at a critical time as we ramp up to our home opener,” Nestor added.
The 24-year-old defender had made 16 MLS appearances this season for CF Montreal prior to his move abroad. He originally broke through at Atlanta United before being traded to CF Montreal in 2022.
In total, Campbell made over 100 MLS appearances between Atlanta and Montreal and made his U.S. men’s national team debut last January.
“I’m really excited to be here,” Campbell said. “I honestly can’t wait to put on the boots and start training. When the chance to sign came, I wanted to take it and experience football in Europe. I’m ready to go.
“The biggest thing for me is to stay focused on the task ahead, which is to help the team win. Whatever challenges come on the journey, I’ll be ready,” he added.
Campbell joins former Orlando City striker Daryl Dike at The Hawthorns for the upcoming season. West Brom opens its new league campaign on August 9 against Blackburn Rovers.
Lyon not really showing interest in Turner anymore.
Well they still haven’t sold Perri, so sitting the bench at Lyon doesn’t make sense. Perri is currently injured which may slow down his departure further. Heard Villa rumors if Martinez leaves, but that seems reaching pretty high given his last few seasons.
Cole Campbell looks set to leave Dortmund. Stuttgart has tabled a 6 million Euro offer.
are they sure millot is leaving? that’s not very far down the table and they had a productive RW. as with reyna the idea is not just leave dortmund but also find playing time.
What from his time with U23s, his January camp, or time in MLS makes you think he’s anywhere near ready to beat out zim, Robinson, or McKenzie not to mention Ream?
Millet most likely leaving, Galatasaray has moved in big on him and he’s supposedly open to it. Stuttgart has already bought Noah Darvich from Barcelona, captained their U17 to WC championship and a Serbian RW that they bought for 5 million so even with Millot leaving Cole won’t walk into easy playing time. Several of their established strikers play also as 10s or Wings so that adds competition. Still probably easier path than Dortmund or Frankfurt (who apparently have pulled back some). Unless they are able to get a loan for Paul Wanner from Bayern then things will be very crowded for Cole. Of course Bayern is trying to pry Woltemade away from Stuttgart. Oh the tangled web that is transfer season.
Not a bad move at all. Really hoping someone will be able to consistently step up and be able to join Richards in the back for the national team. The more centerbacks playing high level competition, the better.
yeah, well, the 8 games this summer would have been a good time to evaluate other choices as opposed to double down on regulars and ream and then reach your epiphany post-tournament when we have a handful of friendly windows left before the world cup.
eg, where has george campbell been?
What from his time with U23s, his January camp, or time in MLS makes you think he’s anywhere near ready to beat out zim, Robinson, or McKenzie not to mention Ream?
i don’t think you watch very closely what the starters actually do, for good or ill, on defense. it’s like your brains click on when we get the ball. there is another half of the game. all 3 are meh defenders. ream is overrated at passing — cost us a goal — and immobile on defense. mckenzie is a little behind the play all the time, or pulling out of slot and diving in. never quite where he’s really supposed to be. z hasn’t been any good in years.
“experience” is overrated when you’re shipping 1-2 goals every time we play. and we already know what Z and ream looked like at a world cup is the funny part here.
i personally see it as richards and CCV and then The Rest. i find your affection for bad backs amusing. the 3 you mention, and some other regulars, are so meh i see it as no more risky to try some others. i have listed the others. george campbell wouldn’t be my first experimental choices, he’d be 5th or 6th, but i find it telling of Team Snob that they’d miss for Gold Cup a guy who 5 seconds later is WBA.
because, well, we fight the last war. ream is 37. z is 32 and looked past it in qatar. mckenzie is mostly a never-was at the international level. move on. it’s 2026. have some fresher ideas.
i mean, y’all act like he’s starting back at napoli or bayern. he’s at some no-name french team after years with a no-name belgian team. big whoop. to me he gets routinely caught jogging back too slow to get in line, or if he gets in line, he dives in and leaves a gaping hole. and meanwhile isn’t dominating his man.
But we saw Campbell wasn’t great in his appearances and he wasn’t as good in the same league as Ream, Zim or Miles. Not saying write him off for ever, but Campbell would have seemed like just throwing spaghetti at a wall. He’s also more a passing CB than the lock down defender you are looking for anyway.
per usual, you require a correction. first off, campbell is a pipeline kid who played for the YNTs. not some rando off the street. second, he has 1 cap, not a bunch, in which we beat venezuela 3-1 and i went back and watched the goal and it’s a guy on a corner header near miles and moore. not his man.
i assume we’re talking about his juggling or hacky-sack or passing or something. the idea is to line up 4 defenders with a hope of stopping someone, as well as backups. miles has never been the same. and the 3 you like aren’t up to it.
oh, i am sure this will get addressed in like fall 2026 or 2027, under our new coach, since we seem to think we have inifinite time to burn and can rely on the unreliable.
Pipeline kid? 1 U20 camp, 2 U23 camps. Here’s the U20 roster defenders George was with.
Kwabena Boateng (UC Irvine Anteaters; Elk Grove, Calif.), Jose Kevin Bonilla (FC Dallas; Dallas, Texas), George Campbell (Atlanta United; Chester, Pa.), Nathan Harriel (Philadelphia Union; Oldsmar, Fla.), Ian Hoffmann (Karlsruher/GER; Wilton, Conn.), Stuart Ritchie (Hannover/GER; Pleasanton, Calif.), Leonardo Sepulveda (Salamanca/ESP; Corona, Calif.), Travian Sousa (Hamburger SV/GER; Sacramento, Calif.)
Harriel is the only guy even still in the picture and that ship sailed against Switzerland. Sepulveda, I thought filed a switch to Mexico but I don’t see where he played in a competition for the US so he wouldn’t have needed to.
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Your he must be good he didn’t give up the goal is the same logic that had you going ga-ga over what defenders Johnny and Lund were. I repeatedly told you they weren’t good defenders. You finally figured those two out. George is known as a passer not a man marker. We shall see, I guess.
Good move for him.