Chris Martin Signs 4 Year Deal We Already Knew About

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Striker puts pen-to-paper on new four-year contract with the Rams.

We’re delighted he sees his long-term future at the Club."
Steve McClaren

Derby County is delighted to announce that Scotland international striker Chris Martin has penned a new long-term deal with the Club.

Martin, 25, has put pen-to-paper on a four-year deal which will run until the summer of 2018.

The 25-year-old has firmly established himself as a key player at the iPro Stadium and he scored 25 goals in all competitions last season, which led to him winning his first-ever international cap for Scotland in May of this year.

He has taken his goalscoring form into the new campaign by hitting the net four times in six starts so far this season.

Martin is the latest in a long line of Derby players to commit their future to the Club, following in the footsteps of Jeff Hendrick, Craig Forsyth, Will Hughes, Jake Buxton, Craig Bryson, Mason Bennett and Jamie Ward.

Head Coach Steve McClaren commented: “I think it is fa

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This concludes a summer of excellent business for me. I'd like to extend Keogh's deal, but in terms of everything we've done so far, that'd be one of the least important in my opinion.

All this talk of "we've not improved from last season", I find quite ammusing. We had the best attacking team in the Championship last season bar none. To keep that team as good as it was last is something worth celebrating.

Martin is worth a lot of money, being a striker, where the market is incredibly inflated at the moment. I think this signing is on par with bringing in Thorne (I still cry at the word "ACL").