AGOUMÉ BECOMES OUR FIRST ARRIVAL OF WINTER TRANSFER WINDOW

We are delighted to announce that we have agreed a deal with FC Internazionale for the loan signing of 21-year-old French-Cameroonian midfielder Lucien Jefferson Agoumé. The transfer will also include an option to buy. 

Born in Yaoundé, he then moved to France where he joined the youth academy of FC Sochaux-Montbéliard at the age of 12. Just four years later, aged only 16, he made his debut with the first team in Ligue 2 and finished the 2018/19 season with 17 official appearances, including two in the Coupe de France. His emergence as the youngest player to make his debut with FC Sochaux triggered the interest of Inter Milan, who proceeded to sign him in the summer of 2019. With Inter, his minutes were split between the youth team, for whom he played five Youth League games, and the first team, making three Serie A appearances. Agoumé recieved a runner-up medal in the UEFA Europa League in Cologne, appearing on the bench against Getafe in the Round of 16 and Leverkusen in the quarter-finals, but not in the semi-final, against Shakhtar, or in the final, where we won our sixth Europa League crown. 

After a year of adaptation at Inter, he went on loan to Spezia in Serie A for the 2020/21 season, playing 12 games in the league and one in the Cup. Agoumé then moved from Serie A to Ligue 1 side Stade Brestois in 2021/22, playing 27 league matches and three in the French Cup. With three years left on his contract and still only 20 years old, Inter decided to send Agoumé back to France despite him making their first few Serie A matchdays of the campaign, loaning him to ESTAC Troyes at the end of the 2022 summer transfer window. However, Troyes were relegated from Ligue 1 with Agoumé playing 15 games, and assisting once. This season he has stayed at Inter and was only left out of Simone Inzaghi's squad for the first matchday against Monza. He had minutes in the closing stages of Salernitana away on 30th September 2023.

At international level, Agoumé has played at all age categories of the French national team since his debut with the U-16s in 2018. In 2019, he was a semi-finalist at the U-17 European Championship in Ireland and third at the U-17 World Cup in Brazil. After passing through the U-18 and U-20 teams, last September he made his debut with the U-21s, managed by Thierry Henry, playing a friendly against Denmark and a qualifier for Euro U-21 2025 against Slovenia.