Christopher Ross

Left Wingback - Ipswich Town U18
13 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Christopher Ross

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The Ipswich Town Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mojmír Chytil

Ipswich Town asked and Slavia Prague said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Player ratings

Jaden Philogene runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Jack Taylor turns Wycombe Wanderers down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market

Chuba Akpom moves on

Sunderland pay $8.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Ipswich Town turn down Millwall for Sindre Walle Egeli

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Exequiel Palacios wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

A row about effort at Ipswich Town

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Julio Enciso was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

One of their own: Emersonn

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Ipswich Town find a way past Oxford United

Oxford United made Ipswich Town work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

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The Ipswich Town Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ipswich Town say no — this time

The offer from Fulham for Leif Davis was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Julio Enciso falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ipswich Town

2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Transfer targets

Ipswich Town rebuffed over Lukáš Horníček

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Newcastle United have kept their man, and Ipswich Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Julio Enciso gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

One of our own: Christopher Ross joins the Ipswich Town first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christopher Ross is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Paul Ellis steps up from the Ipswich Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paul Ellis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ipswich Town

Marcelino Núñez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Jaden Philogene was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief