Auston Trusty leaves Arsenal to join newly-promoted Premier League club

USMNT defender Auston Trusty has completed a move to Sheffield United from Arsenal.

The 24-year-old has made the switch to the newly-promoted Premier League side just over a week before the 2023-24 Premier League season gets underway.

“I am more than excited. The opportunity to be here at this historic club, and an opportunity to play in the Premier League, and show my ability, it is everything I could have ever dreamed of growing up as a kid,” he told Sheffield United’s website.

“In Pennsylvania, this was a dream – almost an impossible dream but I believed in myself and the opportunity has come around, it is everything that I dreamed for.

“It is crazy how quickly things happen in football. I have just come back from a US tour with Arsenal and a couple of days later I am sitting here doing this interview. Things did happen very quickly, but that’s how football works. I was really looking for an opportunity so as soon as it came about, things and details were ironed out. I am here, I wasn’t wasting any time.

“Everything is coming to fruition for me. I am in the right place at the right time and in the right mindset. Everything has come together how I dreamed it.”

Arsenal confirm Trusty move

Arsenal have confirmed that defender Trusty has left the north London club after his impressive 2022-23 loan spell in the Championship with Birmingham City.

“We are so proud to see how far Auston has come and the journey he has been on. If you look at him when he joined us compared to now when he is leaving us, he has achieved so much,” sporting director Edu Gaspar told Arsenal’s official website.

“We see him now, a USA international having won Player of the Season with Birmingham City in a competitive league, which you have to remember was his first in English football. He now moves to a Premier League club where he will play top-flight football.

“Everyone involved in Auston’s progression to this point should have great satisfaction in the steps he has taken, moving on to this new challenge.”