The Ipswich Town Herald
Squad15 Jan 2029
Alex Palmer: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ipswich Town have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings15 Jan 2029
Age has not caught Leon Goretzka yet — 8.21
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.21 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market15 Jan 2029
Ipswich Town turn down Zulte Waregem for Christian Walton
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market15 Jan 2029
Alex Palmer attracts admirers
The name of Alex Palmer has come up in conversations Ipswich Town were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Ipswich Town
Jake O'Brien was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words at Ipswich Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Domínguez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad15 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of George Hirst
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market15 Jan 2029
Ben Johnson wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Ipswich Town hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Player ratings15 Jan 2029
Ninety minutes of Emersonn at his very best
Marked 8.57. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ipswich Town.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Ipswich Town and Cardiff City
- Boardroom Ipswich Town bank $933.3K from an old deal
- Player ratings George Hirst could have had three