Tariq Lamptey’s Contract Termination with Fiorentina

Tariq Lamptey’s Italian gamble is on the brink of a brutal ending.

According to reports in Italy, Fiorentina are preparing to terminate the Ghana international’s contract after just a single season in Serie A, with both club and player said to be close to agreeing a mutual parting of ways.

It is a harsh twist in a move that was meant to relaunch his career. Lamptey arrived in Florence in the summer with one year left on his deal at Brighton and Hove Albion, choosing to draw a line under his Premier League spell and the English chapter that began at Chelsea. Fiorentina handed the 25-year-old a three-year contract, a sign they believed they could rebuild a player whose pace and direct running once lit up English grounds.

The script never got off the ground.

Injuries, the shadow that followed him from England, refused to loosen their grip. Lamptey managed only two appearances for the Tuscan side, his body breaking down just as he seemed ready to stake a claim.

His debut came off the bench in a home defeat to Napoli, a brief glimpse rather than a statement. The real chance arrived in late September, his first start against Como. Twenty-one minutes in, it was over. A ruptured anterior cruciate ligament, and with it the season, maybe the Fiorentina project too.

From there, the story turned into rehab reports and medical bulletins. The club, chasing their own ambitions, watched a key squad place and salary tied up in a player stuck in the treatment room. The player, desperate for rhythm, watched another campaign slip away.

Now, as reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport, the two sides are moving towards a mutual termination. No public fallout, no war of words. Just a recognition that this marriage has not worked.

If the agreement is finalised, Lamptey will become a free agent at the end of a deeply troubling 2025/26 season, left to confront the same question that has hovered over his career for years: can his talent ever outrun his injuries?