{"id":757244,"date":"2026-09-02T01:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757244\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:38:19","slug":"signing-david-ozoh-signs-for-derby-county-on-permanent-deal-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757244\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGNING: David Ozoh Signs For Derby County On Permanent Deal &#8211; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Ozoh has signed for Derby County on a permanent transfer from Premier League side Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ozoh2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The midfielder has penned a five-year contract at Pride Park Stadium, arriving for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>Ozoh will now take up permanent residence in DE24, having enjoyed loan spells with the Rams during the previous two campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old has made 47 appearances in black and white \u2013 including 35 during the 2025\/26 campaign \u2013 where he established himself as a key component of John Eustace\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>A tenacious operator in the centre of the pitch, his winner against Norwich City last October kickstarted a five-game winning run as the Rams ascended up the Sky Bet Championship table.<\/p>\n<p>After missing the end of 2025 with a thigh injury, his return helped the Rams surge toward the play-off places, featuring as an ever-present in the final 20 matches of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Ozoh becomes Derby\u2019s third signing of Deadline Day following the arrivals of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/09\/signing-cashin-returns-to-the-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eiran Cashin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/09\/signing-fuseini-makes-derby-loan-switch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammed Fuseini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Welcome back to Derby County, David!<\/p>\n<p rel=\"\" strong=\"\">* Transfer subject to EFL and Premier League approval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Ozoh has signed for Derby County on a permanent transfer from Premier League side Crystal Palace. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-757244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}