Overview

• Derby County have broken their transfer record with a £5.8 million fee for Agyemang, eclipsing their previous highest spend since Krystian Bielik’s £8 million move in 2019.
• The 24-year-old United States international signed a deal through 2029 after undergoing a remote medical assessment in the United States.
• Charlotte FC negotiated a sell-on clause and celebrated Agyemang as the club’s first academy product sold for a seven-figure fee.
• He is scheduled for hernia surgery that is expected to rule him out of Derby’s opening games of the Championship season.
• His signing caps a summer overhaul spearheaded by John Eustace that also included Carlton Morris’s arrival and free transfers for Andi Weimann, Danny Batth and Richard O’Donnell to address last season’s scoring shortcomings.