Jack Taylor

Defensive Midfielder - Nottingham Forest
21 Jul 2030
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The Ipswich Town Herald

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 ratings

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