Wolverhampton Wanderers have accomplished the signing of Crystal Palace goalkeeper Sam Johnstone for an undisclosed payment.
The 31-year-old has signed a four-year contract at Molineux after shedding his place in Palace’s beginning lineup to Dean Henderson, who the Eagles decided to be a greater long-term match.
Johnstone is an England worldwide, repeatedly that includes in Gareth Southgate’s squads, however did not make it to Euro 2024 as Southgate plumped for Jordan Pickford, Aaron Ramsdale and Henderson.
Talking about Johnstone’s arrival within the Midlands, Wolves‘ sporting director Matt Hobbs mentioned: “It is nice for us to have a participant with an enormous quantity of Premier League expertise and a world goalkeeper. It is an space of the pitch we wished so as to add extra competitors and, for us, it is discovering the proper stability between the extent of funding, what it provides to the squad and what it allows us to do for the remainder of the squad.
“Sam’s at a superb age – goalkeepers come into their prime a bit later – and what occurs from right here can be as much as the boys within the constructing, however for us to have the ability to add somebody like him is effective for us.
“Folks know that we’re searching for good characters and we’re not going to take somebody who’s a extremely good participant however does not match culturally. He ticks lots of packing containers and it is as much as him and the others to combat out for that place.
“I feel a squad and a group is in a significantly better place when there’s actual competitors for each place. If we will add such an skilled participant, who’s homegrown and is aware of the league, and it makes the entire group extra aggressive, then we would not flip that down in some other place, so why will we flip that down with a goalkeeper?”
Johnstone’s contract additionally incorporates an choice to increase by an extra 12 months, together with his first mission to dislodge Jose Sa as Wolves’ primary goalkeeper.
