AGREEMENT WITH INTER MILAN FOR THE TRANSFER OF LUCIEN AGOUMÉ

An agreement has beach reached with Inter Milan for the transfer of 21-year-old French-Cameroonian midfielder Lucien Jefferson Agoumé. The Yaoundé-born player, who arrived on loan in January 2023, returns after 13 appearances last season in 12 LALIGA EA SPORTS matches and one in the Copa del Rey. After playing almost 800 minutes in the second half of the 2023/24 campaign, the midfielder has signed for four seasons, until June 2028, making him the sixth signing of the summer. 

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. 

He returns to Nervión after playing 13 games on loan last season

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. Last season he arrived in Nervión in the second half of the season where he played 13 games. 

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