United States males’s nationwide staff ahead Patrick Agyemang signed a four-year contract with English Championship aspect Derby County on Tuesday.
Derby County, which performs in England’s second division, paid a reported payment of $7.7 million to Main League Soccer staff Charlotte FC to safe Ageymang’s companies.
The 24-year-old Agyemang scored eight objectives in 18 appearances throughout the first half of Charlotte’s present season. Throughout 59 regular-season matches since 2023, Agyemang has scored 17 occasions for Charlotte.
For the USMNT, Agyemang had two objectives on the Gold Cup and began all six video games because the staff reached the ultimate, the place it misplaced to Mexico.
Charlotte described the switch payment as a membership report, although neither staff revealed the determine. British media reported it to be $7.7 million.
In its assertion asserting the transfer, Derby County stated Agygemang will endure hernia surgey.
“Agyemang has been enjoying for many of the 2025 Main League Soccer season with a hernia harm that has been managed with out surgical procedure however meant he has been enjoying in discomfort,” Derby stated in its announcement. “With a long-term view in thoughts, all events have agreed he’ll endure routine surgical procedure and is subsequently prone to miss the opening video games of the 2025-26 season.”
The East Hartford, Connecticut native was chosen twelfth general within the 2023 MLS SuperDraft.
“I’ve heard about [the move] as soon as I used to be moving into the nationwide staff for the Gold Cup,” Agyemang stated in an interview with Derby’s web site. “And clearly, within the second, you are like, ‘that is one thing I am fascinated about!’ However you need to concentrate on what you are doing.
“Then, because it begins to progress, you begin to look extra into it. And there’s this undertaking I might like to be part of. And I simply hoped for it to get throughout the road. And fortunately, it did.”
Derby County narrowly averted relegation again to the third division (League One) final season. The staff had performed there from 2022-24 after dropping from the Championship (2008-22). The Rams final performed within the Premier League within the 2007-2008 season.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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