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BBC News
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Your Ipswich player of the season
We asked you to select your Ipswich player of the season from the four candidates chosen by our fan with the poll now closed, we can reveal the winner is... Liam Delap!Here's what Seb Brown from the Blue Monday Podcast, external said about him:Our top scorer of the season with 12 goals and ability to lead the line, create chances for himself and occupy defenders is a throwback to a previous era of centre has been excellent this season and will have his choice of top clubs this the final poll breakdown
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fan scorecard: Unsung hero? Overriding emotion?
Season rating: 4/10. After a significant summer investment and coming into the season with serious momentum, to be so far adrift of the 'big 17' is a pretty major disappointment. We had a few positive moments, though, and unlike those around us stuck together despite the adversity. We'll be stronger for it. Happy with your manager? Yes. There are things I'm sure in hindsight he could have done differently at points in the season, but Kieran McKenna is always learning and finding ways to improve. Hopefully he stays with Town and that improvement journey continues together. Unsung hero: There will be a few of our double promotion heroes who depart this summer. One already confirmed is Massimo Luongo. The Australian joined on a free transfer in January 2023 having not made an appearance at previous club Middlesbrough. Despite this, Luongo immediately became a vital part of Town's midfield that dominated almost everyone in the EFL. Thanks Mass! Player you would most like to sign: As noted above, our midfield department will be depleted this summer. Plus we need to address our lack of physical stature compared with the sides in the big 17. Players like that aren't typically found in our usual market in the EFL so we need to expand our scouting network to find the next Pape Sarr or Abdoulaye Doucoure. Right now, my overriding emotion from the season is: I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed - in part at our inability to keep ourselves on the right side of the line, or at least to sustain a survival fight until the final day. Equal disappointment at what the Premier League has become in our 22 years away. Yes, it is the pinnacle, but it is also a brutal landscape which has all but left behind clubs of a modest stature now. I'm not sure that's something to be proud about. Do you agree with Rich's answers? Pick one or two categories and send your views Find more from Rich Woodward at the Blue Monday Podcast
BBC News
21-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Pick your Ipswich player of the season
We asked our Ipswich fan contributor for their four candidates for player of the season and you can now select your top one. Liam DelapOur top scorer of the season with 12 goals and counting. His ability to lead the line, create chances for himself and occupy defenders is a throwback to a previous era of centre forwards. He has been excellent this season and will have his choice of top clubs this O'SheaProbably the most consistent performer at the club this season. He is strong in the air, brave and provides excellent leadership qualities, as proven by his appointment as captain when Sam Morsy is absent. Comfortable in both a back four and back three, he has proved an excellent addition for only £ HutchinsonArguably has the highest ceiling among the current squad and has shown two seasons of remarkable development. His ability to carry the ball up the field and selfless work off the ball will see him go to the very top of the game. Three goals and two assists do not do his performances CajusteCajuste has provided dynamism in midfield with an effortless ability to spin opposition players, create space and drive forward with the ball. An athletic presence in the centre of the pitch, he would have been a steal at the pre-arranged £10m transfer fee had Ipswich stayed mentionsLuke Woolfenden and Cameron Burgess. The first-choice centre-back pairing for the back-to-back promotion campaigns. Both have looked comfortable at this level with Woolfenden's calmness on the ball and Burgess' aerial dominance being the key your 2024-25 Ipswich player of the season from our shortlist hereAnd tell us why you're picking who you are, or why you'd have gone for another player not on the list, here Find more from Richard Woodward at the Blue Monday Podcast, external
BBC News
22-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
'The misery dividend' - why yo-yo clubs will continue
I have nothing constructive to add into the discourse following Ipswich's Easter Sunday defeat by Arsenal. On a lovely sunny Suffolk afternoon, Leif Davis is now public enemy number one for those of a red persuasion, Town shipped another four goals at Portman Road, and ultimately nothing new was learned. Bring on the summer I found more egregious to discuss was the contents of a tweet posted by football finance expert Kieran Maguire, external on social media on explained that when Leicester and Southampton were relegated in 2022-23 and promoted back the following season, £102m in parachute payments were saved. He added that should Burnley and Leeds be promoted back to the top flight this campaign (which looks more and more likely COULD ALREADY BE SORTED, PLEASE CHECK) a further £51m will also be "savings", and hopefully you can see this coming, do not get pumped into charitable causes (at least directly), nor do they help level the playing field to the rest of the pyramid or bolster the grassroots game. No, these savings are split between Premier League clubs like some kind of misery while the gathering debate among football pundits about the increasing anti-competitive disparity between the Premier League and EFL is helpful (if not somewhat belated), it seems to be just talk while those with the power to act – the Premier League and the member clubs - do nothing, or worse are incentivised to maintain Premier League clubs benefit from certain clubs yo-yoing up and down like some kind of horrible purgatory (something I fear for my team Ipswich) and it is this group that have the influence to make chance does the wider game have? After all, turkeys don't vote for Christmas (nor eggs for Easter etc.).Find more from Richard Woodward at the Blue Monday Podcast, external
BBC News
15-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Mixture of anger and acceptance' at Delap release clause
The chant "10 more years Delap, 10 more years" rang out from the away end on Sunday as Ipswich gained an unlikely point away at Delap started on the bench at Stamford Bridge but has been the talking point all week after news broke of a £30m relegation release clause in his reaction to this news amongst the fan base has been a mixture of anger and acceptance. Understandably, many are annoyed that one of the hottest young talents in English football will likely be moving on for a bargain around his valuation has been rife all season, with figures of £50-60m mentioned by the fans and the media. So to find out that he will most likely depart for about half of that figure is obviously there is angst amongst the fan base, it is worth looking back at the situation the club found themselves in when Delap is a wonderful thing and very few fans would have predicted a player, who was coming in off an eight-goal Championship campaign at Hull City, would have turned out to be so has scored 12 Premier League goals this season, which is 36% of Ipswich's total, and his all-action displays are a throwback to a previous generation of centre however, if this relegation clause was a requirement of getting the initial deal done then in reality Ipswich had no had already met with Southampton before signing for Town and newly-promoted sides rarely hold much advantage when trying to sign new players, because of the survival odds being stacked against fans will get to enjoy Delap for six more games before he departs - and although £9m profit on a player after 12 months may be frustrating, it shows how quickly the club have progressed after years of poor player must be given to the decision-makers at the club to always get the best deals possible and unearth another next gem for fans to serenade with songs from many away more from Seb Brown at the Blue Monday Podcast, external
