Fiorentina confirm Lamptey departure after just two games: ‘Grateful for the experience’

Fiorentina confirm Lamptey departure after just two games: ‘Grateful for the experience’

Fiorentina have confirmed that they have reached a mutual agreement to terminate the contract of Ghana international Tariq Lampety, who has featured for just 25 minutes of the 2025-26 campaign: ‘I’m grateful for the experience’.

Official: Lamptey has left Fiorentina by mutual consent

Lamptey joined Fiorentina in a €6m deal from Brighton & Hove Albion during the summer transfer window, but the former England youth international’s season was almost immediately derailed by a serious knee injury, which has limited him to just two short league outings.

The right-back came on as a late substitute in Fiorentina’s first game of the 2025-26 season, a 3-1 defeat at home against Napoli. He then suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament (ACL) just 22 minutes into his first Fiorentina start the following week in an eventual 2-1 defeat against Como.

34 Serie A matches have gone by since then, and Lamptey has still not been able to return to full fitness.

Instead of continuing his rehabilitation programme in Florence, he has decided to terminate his contract and is now no longer a Viola player.

“ACF Fiorentina announces that Tariq Lamptey’s contract with the club has been terminated by mutual consent,” read a brief statement on the club website. Lamptey’s deal in Tuscany had been due to run until the summer of 2029.