New signing Paul Anderson says he’s delighted to be a Town player having completed his swap move to the Blues earlier today. The 24-year-old has signed a two-year deal with Jay Emmanuel-Thomas moving to Bristol City.
Anderson, who played alongside David McGoldrick and Luke Chambers at Nottingham Forest and Cole Skuse at Bristol City, told the club site: "There has been talk about the move for a couple of weeks now and obviously I’m delighted that it’s gone through.
"Chambo rang me a while back and said he’d heard whispers that I might be coming here. He told me the gaffer was keen but it was only this morning that I actually sat down and spoke with the manager.
"My agent has been in contact with the club and the manager. I’ve left him to do that but as soon as I heard Ipswich were interested in me, I was hoping it would happen.
"It’s a massive club with a great history and has a manager that is a big name in the game. The gaffer really turned Ipswich’s fortunes around last season and the form they showed after his arrival would have had the team right up there challenging at the top of the table.
"You can tell there is real buzz about the place, just from meeting the people behind the scenes and I can’t wait to get going here.
"This is the first time I have seen the stadium in the daylight as well. Every time I have played here, it’s been on a wet Tuesday night.”
Anderson looks set to make his first appearance in a Blues shirt when Town travel to Crawley on Wednesday evening (KO 7.45pm).