Wolves have strengthened their forward line with the deadline day signing of Adam Armstrong from Southampton.
The 28-year-old moves to Molineux after an impressive first half of the campaign where he scored 11 Championship goals for the Saints – the joint third highest in the division – and signs a three-and-a-half-year contract at the club.
Armstrong returns to the Premier League with a track record of scoring goals, having netted 139 times in his career since progressing through the academy system of his hometown club Newcastle United.
While developing at the Magpies, Armstrong represented England at six different age groups, winning the Under-17 Euros in 2014 and Under-20 World Cup in three years later – his first experiences of silverware.
A series of successful loans as a youngster led to a permanent move to Blackburn Rovers, where he helped the club into the Championship and then scored regularly in the second tier.
His 64 goals at Ewood Park alerted Southampton, who he joined in 2021 and has represented for the past four-and-a-half years, wearing the captain’s armband regularly in recent seasons.
His last complete Championship campaign saw him hit 24 goals, with the striker scoring the winner in the play-off final at Wembley to earn Southampton promotion to the top flight.
Back in the second tier with the Saints this term, Armstrong was back scoring goals, with his final two for the club coming against West Bromwich Albion in December, and he now becomes Rob Edwards’ first signing as Wolves manager.
Edwards said: “Adam’s really excited to be here. He's a competitor and he's got something about him that we need now. He was really keen to come and join Wolves, and wants to play for Wolves, so it’s a really good day for the club getting him in.
“He’s someone I've admired for a long, long time. He's a really good footballer, a goal threat and a goal scorer. He's someone who can play off the sides if we wanted him to, he’ll see himself as a nine and as a goal scorer, but he's more than that.
“We were only going to bring people in if we felt they could really affect the group in a positive way, not just on the pitch, but around the whole place as well. Hopefully everyone really gets behind him and shows him that love really early on.”
