Chairman and CEO Mark Ashton has revealed sponsor and minority shareholder Ed Sheeran played a role in signing striker Liam Delap during the summer.
Ashton says the club got the Framlingham-based pop star to have a word with a player in order to help get the move over the line.
"Local man, global superstar, sponsor of the football club, now a shareholder and now officially part of our recruitment team,” Ashton said at Soccerex Miami last week.
"In the summer, we were trying to persuade one particular player to join the football club and realised very quickly that he was an Ed Sheeran fan.
"Ed jumped on a Zoom call with him at the training ground, just before he stepped on stage with Taylor Swift. Hopefully, that was a key part in getting the player across the line.”
Ashton merely hinted when pressed on the player’s identity: "He’s certainly scoring a few goals.”
And we understand that player was Delap, who joined from Manchester City for £15 million in July with other clubs, including Southampton, also having shown interest.