Minnesota United sign South Korean Sang Bin Jeong

Minnesota United FC have announced on Wednesday that they have signed South Korean forward Sang Bin Jeong from English Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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The club has signed South Korean international Sang Bin Jeong via transfer from @Wolves. He joins #MNUFC as a U22 initiative signing on a 3-year contract, with a club option. pic.twitter.com/vmDfrVl5ta

— Minnesota United FC (@MNUFC) March 22, 2023

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The 20-year old has signed a three-year deal up until the 2025 season with an option for extension for 2026.

Jeong was signed by Wolverhampton last year and was immedietely loaned to Swiss side Grasshoppers, where he managed to score two goals during the 2022-2023 Swiss Super League season.

“When you call Sang Bin Jeong ‘dynamic’ you’ve hit the nail on the head. We first spotted him in 2019 playing for the Korean U-17 national team and we’ve tracked him ever since,” Minnesota’s manager Adrian Heath said in a release.

“Twenty years of age, incredibly athletic, incredibly quick and hard-working. He’s really intelligent, has a great football brain and can provide explosiveness in attack – so when you go down the list, he really ticks all the boxes in the type of young and dynamic player we are after.”

Jeong is the sixth-ever South Korean to join the MLS with LAFC defender Kim Moon-hwan. He also becomes Minnesota’s second-ever U22 Iniatitive signing after fellow forward Bongokuhle Hlongwane.