Patrick Agyemang is not going to play a component within the the rest of Derby County’s season, the FIFA World Cup, and now the remainder of 2026.
Derby County supervisor John Eustace confirmed that Agyemang’s new Achillies’ damage will sideline him 9 months. Agyemang suffered the damage in Monday’s 2-0 EFL Championship win over Stoke Metropolis, being stretchered off within the first half at Pleasure Park.
The American ahead delivered a optimistic first season overseas, scoring 10 targets in 38 appearances for the Rams. Nevertheless, his new damage will finish his membership marketing campaign, and his goals of representing the U.S. males’s nationwide staff this summer season.
Eustace praised Agyemang’s influence on the squad this season and hopes he can rally from it to stay a key participant for subsequent season.
“He’s been an actual focus for us this season and he’s been excellent when it comes to his growth,” Eustace stated in his prematch press convention Thursday. “It’s going to be an enormous blow to us when it comes to not with the ability to end the season and to overlook the World Cup too as a result of he’s labored his socks off to try to get into that squad. I believe he was very near being there.
“It’s a part of the job although, a part of being a footballer, you’re going to have highs and lows, and now it’s concerning the Derby County household rallying round him,” he added. “The lads have been magnificent with him and I do know the followers have despatched him some nice messages as properly. He’ll come again and are available again stronger. It provides him time to have a little bit of a break, reset, get robust on some bodily areas that may have been giving him a difficulty. When he comes again he’ll simply should benefit from the subsequent problem.”
Agyemang’s absence implies that Carlton Morris will step again in because the membership’s main No. 9 menace with 5 matches left to play this spring.
Derby County travels to Southampton on Saturday in an important match for each playoff challengers.