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BBC News
08-08-2025
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University students help Derby County team prepare for new season
A group of university students have been given the opportunity to help Derby County players get prepared for the upcoming of the Rams men's first-team visited the University of Derby, where staff and students performed a series of tests, such as cardiac screening, blood tests, eye tests and dental assessments. The squad, including club captain Ebou Adams and new striker Carlton Morris, visited the university's Human Performance Unit to carry out tests ahead of their Championship opener against Stoke City on university said the tests gave their sports science students "invaluable experience" of what working with professional athletes and clubs was like. The collaboration also provided the Rams with "valuable data and insights" needed to help create individual programmes for each player ahead of the new Roach, who will return to Derby in September to study for a Masters in Applied Sport and Exercise Science, said: "It has been a fantastic experience to work closely with professional athletes so that I could apply what I have learned at the University of Derby to a real-world situation." Adams said he was hoping to "better his stats" in the upcoming season and to do so, he has been putting in the work during pre-season."No-one really likes the running part of it, but you've got to get it done," said the midfielder."To play, you have to be fit, and what I've seen so far in terms of pre-season, is that everyone has been up and at it."Alice Kemp, who is also returning in September for a Masters, said the session was focused on "recording baseline measures that the players can work on throughout the season, seeing how far they can safely push their bodies".
BBC News
01-08-2025
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- BBC News
Derby sign former Sheffield United striker Brewster
Derby County have signed Rhian Brewster on a two-year contract after the striker turned down the offer of a new deal with Sheffield 25-year-old became the Blades' most expensive signing when they paid £23.5m to bring him to Bramall Lane from Liverpool in October managed only nine goals in 119 appearances for Sheffield United across all competitions, although his time with the South Yorkshire club was ravaged by of the eight league goals he scored for the club were netted last season in the former England Under-21 international becomes the third striker to join the Rams this summer after Carlton Morris and American Patrick Agyemang. After turning down the chance to stay with a Sheffield United side that fell just one win short of Premier League promotion, having lost the Championship play-off final to Sunderland, he says the move to a Rams side that avoided relegation on the final day was "a no-brainer"."I feel this is a big opportunity for me - and one I had to grab with two hands," he told Derby County's website., external"For me, the project that [head coach] John Eustace has set out, for me, was a no-brainer to be involved with."
BBC News
25-07-2025
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Agyemang & Morris will entertain & excite
Strikers Patrick Agyemang and Carlton Morris are "exciting" big-money Derby County additions who have been brought to Pride Park to "entertain", says Rams boss John States international Agyemang signed from Major League Soccer side Charlotte FC on a deal that could rise to £7.3m - making him the most expensive addition since the club came out of administration three years ago - while getting Morris from Luton Town is understood to have also demanded a significant while Eustance insists Derby's focus this season will be "stability" and avoiding a repeat of last term's narrow Championship relegation escape, he is also determined to see that this summer's splash of cash will come with a box-office payoff."Fans want to be entertained and I want to entertain them," Eustace told BBC Sport."I want to bring in the best players as possible to do that, and those two boys are good, exciting signings." Eustace has spoken of his desire to get Derby to the Premier League since the day he took the top job at Pride Morris, he has a striker who helped Luton Town reach the Premier League for the first time – top scoring for the little fancied Hatters with 20 goals when they reached the top flight via the Championship play-offs in was only starting his professional career in the same year, but within two years he went from being the 12th overall draft pick in the MLS to being called up by USA boss Mauricio was just over a week after he started for the USA in their Gold Cup final defeat by Mexico earlier in July that Derby signed the 24-year-old on a four-year on a long-standing hernia problem means Agyemang will miss the opening games of the season, but Eustace sees huge potential in the 6ft 4in forward."Patrick is the USA number nine at the moment. He had a good [Gold Cup] tournament, and he is at an age where if he comes over and trains in this environment, works with the coaches and works with good players like Carlton Morris and players like that, he will improve and get better," Eustace said."There will be no rush for him to come in and score goals straight away. The club has invested a good bit of money on him and it's important that in the next two or three seasons we really see him turn into a top striker at this level."He is quick, strong and powerful. With some good work into him I think he can be a real threat at this level. He is a really good asset to the club and I feel we can develop him and turn him into a Premier League striker." Agyemang and Morris are two of six summer additions, with Liverpool left-back Owen Beck becoming the latest after arriving on a season-long Beck was confirmed on Friday, Eustace said he wanted at least "five or six" more recruits as he "looks to improve the team as much as we can" to build on last season's 19th-placed overseeing three defeats in his first three matches, Eustace's Rams won six and drew three of their final 11 fixtures to stay up."When I came in, I said it's not a build for the short-term, it's a long-term build," he said."We have a couple of good signings now, but if we don't get any more exciting, big-money signings going into the season, it's no problem because the group will be ready and it's a gradual build."The principles that we brought in last season won't be any different to this season, we want to be very competitive, we want to be hard to play against and be very well organised."And when we can play nice attractive football, we can play that, but if we have to play dogged football, then we can do that."
BBC News
10-07-2025
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🎧 'Derby haven't paid a fee of £6m for quite some time'
"It's a story that has gone on for quite some time now. This is no small fee and Derby County haven't paid a fee like that in a long time."I'm not sure Derby County will be comfortable with a £6m signing playing in an MLS All-Star game with the potential of injuries."BBC Radio Derby's Dave Fletcher and Dominic Dietrich discuss the latest on the Rams' transfer target Patrick Agyemang and catch up with new signing Carlton Morris during pre-season training following his arrival from Luton to the full episode and more on BBC Sounds.
BBC News
09-07-2025
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Morris moves to Derby with 'ambition at all-time high'
Carlton Morris says his ambition to get back to the Premier League is at "an all-time high" after moving to Derby 29-year-old striker left Luton Town for Pride Park after the Hatters suffered a second successive relegation last season to drop into League One.A season earlier he was with Luton in the top flight, having played an instrumental role as their top scorer in the 2022-23 season to help get them promoted to the Premier Derby only clinched Championship survival on the final day last term, finishing just one point and three places above Luton in the drop zone, Morris has joined them with his focus on competing at the other end of the table this term."I'm 29 now and it is probably the most ambitious I have been in my career," he told BBC Radio Derby."I know it's usually the other way around, but it's just different for me now. I'm more motivated than ever to get back to that level, and it's maybe because have been there and come out of it."And I believe the foundations are in place here to go and achieve something. We have the staff, we have an excellent squad here, fan base, facilities and stadium, so why not have a go?" Morris admits he was "sad to leave" Luton after three transformative years in which he also became a father for the first time."I hold Luton very close to my heart for more reasons than one, on and off the pitch," he said."I'm a different man from the person that joined Luton and I'm grateful for the three years of growth."And that might be why my motivation is at an all-time high - I have young kids now, a young family and there are even more people that I'm determined to make proud."Derby will be the 10th club Morris has played for during an 11-year professional career that started at Norwich are the only side that he featured for more than 100 times, and in each of his three seasons there he finished as their top scorer – which included 11 goals in their Premier League was an attention-grabbing first summer addition for John Eustace's Rams, and he does not flinch from the attention."If they want to call it a statement signing, I'm absolutely fine with that," he said."But I keep my head on an even keel and just work hard."I'm about rewarding towns and cities with the work ethic they have. And Derbyshire and Derby is synonymous with hard work and getting your head down. That's what I'm about, and that will make my transition even easier."
