Town have confirmed the signing of striker Paul Taylor from Peterborough United. The 24-year-old has put pen to paper on a three—year deal.

Taylor told the club site: “I feel ready for the challenge here and this is a great move for me.

“Looking around the facilities here, it’s a fantastic club, a massive club and I can’t wait to get going now.

“I spoke to the manager and he told me of the plans he had for Ipswich and I want to be part of it.

"The talks have been going on for a day or so, I just left that to my agent and I’m just pleased now that it’s all sorted out and I’m an Ipswich Town player.

“Peterborough were great for me. They helped me develop as a player and now I feel I can continue that development at Ipswich.”

Earlier in the week the Blues agreed a fee previously reported to be around £1.75 million for Taylor and Posh team-mate George Boyd with the vast majority of that figure relating to the Liverpudlian.

Reports this evening suggest that the fee for Taylor will increase to £2.5 million after top-ups with Peterborough chairman Darragh MacAnthony appearing to confirm that the cash his club could ultimately receive is higher than has generally been claimed in a series of tweets: "Final word on [Paul Taylor]. 18 months ago we took a punt, spent £5k on him, he delivered for Posh and we got his career going again.

"He moves on for millions of pounds with nine months left on his contract. All the best to him and to his new club who conducted business in great manner."

Taylor played youth football with Liverpool, Everton and Manchester City before moving on to Conference North side Vauxhall Motors, joining Chester City, then in League Two, on loan in the summer of 2008.

After he had made two starts and seven sub appearances, his Chester loan was terminated with news subsequently emerging that he had tested positive for cocaine and as a result he was banned for six months.

He later admitted he made errors of judgement in his youth: ”The cocaine thing was stupid. It was my 21st birthday and I was with friends. It was only one night but it was a mistake and you learn from your mistakes."

The 5ft 7in tall frontman joined Belgian side Montegnée on his return to football, doing well enough to earn a move to Anderlecht in December 2009.

A loan spell at Charleroi followed and in March 2011, without him appearing for Anderlecht, he joined Posh after impressing while on trial.

Last season Taylor netted 12 goals in 38 starts and nine sub appearances. This year he has scored twice — including one in Tuesday's 3-2 Capital One Cup defeat to Reading — in five games.

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DrDre420 added 22:58 - Aug 30 Sweeeet!
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rob_friday added 22:59 - Aug 30 Great news, now for a winger and two defenders and my sense of optimism will soar through the roof!
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Lightningboy added 23:01 - Aug 30 Excellent..welcome Paul..some words of advice - be as greedy in front of goal as you possibly can cos we haven't had a decent goalscorer for about 7 seasons.
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hoddo40000 added 23:01 - Aug 30 great signing, feel a lot more confident but still lack squad depth
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Michael11 added 23:01 - Aug 30 Great news, hopefully going to add some pace and creativity up front! Now for a couple of defenders tomorrow please PJ! Well done to all involved in getting this deal done after all!
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WeirdFishes added 23:02 - Aug 30 Alright Paul how's it going alrigh'?
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dav86 added 23:03 - Aug 30 Finally
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townietilidie added 23:07 - Aug 30 Welcome aboard Paul Taylor ... 1 down ... Lots to go
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Tractamatt added 23:08 - Aug 30 Score goals and change peoples minds. As you are now an Ipswich player welcome and hopefully you can help turn around last weekends disaster.
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buryblue77 added 23:08 - Aug 30 Great, I would also like to see Boyd here. I will take back my rants at the board (although I'd still rather an experienced footballing CEO than Clegg) last night as they were slightly irrational for me but I think the majority of us were fairly pi$$ed off last night. Could be an interesting last day of the summer transfer window tomorrow, here's hoping for at least another CB.

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emergencylime added 23:12 - Aug 30 Does this mean 2 up front?!
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backwiththeboysagain added 23:12 - Aug 30 Welcome Paul. Hopefully Boyd will follow.
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evansblue added 23:13 - Aug 30 Excellent signing. He is a hungry striker and will Provide us some much needed fire power to take the pressure of chopra a bit.
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SheffieldBlue1 added 23:14 - Aug 30 Happy with this, many peterbourough fans seem to rate him highly, the fee should be reasonable as well. Hopefully this is a sign Jewell is thinking to reverting back to a 4-4-2. If you look at it in the league so far, we've only scored when we've reverted to 4-4-2. Although whilst Taylor and Chopra arn't the tallest, Murphy on the wing should bring the height Jewell obviously wants.

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bawsedog added 23:14 - Aug 30 Great! With the Murphy signing as well I'm feeling more positive about things.
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bennyitfc added 23:18 - Aug 30 Could they...umm...change the photo now...
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Radlett_blue added 23:20 - Aug 30 Where is he going to fit into the team? Doesn't sound like a partner for Chopra.
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ipswich61 added 23:21 - Aug 30 After he had made two starts and seven sub appearances, his Chester loan was terminated with news subsequently emerging that he had tested positive for cocaine and as a result he was banned for six months.lol any1 remember adam tanner he got banned for drug taking
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ipswich61 added 23:22 - Aug 30 boyd wont come he wants too bigger wages the greedy tw@t
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huntingdonblue68 added 23:28 - Aug 30 goal getter in so now lets get a good cb or two st leger would be a start
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flouncemaker added 23:29 - Aug 30 Congratulations to Evans and simon Clegg for pulling this off, Now please tie up a deal for George Boyd. The hard work is done. Just need to put a bonus structure in place to reward him when he succeeds.
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hollywoodginge added 23:30 - Aug 30 Ipswich61 - I remember Adam Tanner, he's a roofer in Canvey right? Lol he did score our 1st ever winner at anfield and a 18 yard diving header in the Anglo Italian cup! Iv got a few stories about his antics I can't post on here lol! Regarding drugs bans I'm led to believe that they are quite common but kept in house and passed off as long term injuries, apparently this happens from prem league down to league 2. Onto the matter in hand, great signing, well done Jewell, Clegg and Evans!!

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tractorboy12341234 added 23:31 - Aug 30 Better than that other guy Boyd.
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CanadianBlue added 23:33 - Aug 30 Excellent. Welcome to the club, now score some goals!
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TractorBoy666 added 23:35 - Aug 30 Excellent, i was one of dozen annoyed last night but getting one of these players is good enough for me. I read on this thread of Peterborough about both and supports seem to rate Taylor more than Boyd. I would love us to play 4-4-2 now as Chops is always better in that formation. Why is that players always seem to say the same thing once they sign for a club? Anyway, just need a CB or two in now and that's job done for me!

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