Chelsea defender, Fikayo Tomori has joined Frank Lampard’s Derby County in the Championship.
Tomori will be spending the whole of the 2018-2019 season on loan at County.
The 20-year-old is the sixth player to be signed by manager, Frank Lampard this summer and joins another Chelsea loanee Mason Mount at Pride Park.
The Nigerian defender is now tied to the Blues until June 30, 2021 after penning a contract extension.
Tomori has enjoyed loan spells at Brighton and Hull City respectively.
In his first words as a Derby County player, Tomori told Rams TV: ”First of all, I am happy to be here – hopefully we can have a good year.
”I’m here to learn, I’m here to play games and I’m here to improve. I want to make the fans happy this year.
”I had some good years under Jody at Chelsea. We won the FA Youth Cup a few times, the youth Champions League, but overall, he’s just a good guy.”
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