Portsmouth manager Steve Cotterill has confirmed that exiting Town skipper David Norris will join Pompey when his Blues contract comes to an end on July 1st. Cotterill has been chasing Norris since January when his club made a £250,000 offer for the 30-year-old midfielder.

Cotterill said: “David has agreed to come here and will be in to join his new team-mates on July 1st. We’re delighted that he’s agreed to come.

“He has great leadership qualities. You don’t become the captain of a great club like Ipswich Town if you don’t. He is a leader, has great quality and scores goals.

“We’ve agreed and sorted out his arrival now. It’s a big bonus. We’ve agreed that and we look forward to welcoming him to the football club. We’ve been waiting for a long time.

“David has also been very patient waiting, and that is something I thank him for. I looking forward to working with him very much.”

Norris, who was also believed to be interesting Nottingham Forest, Hull City, Leeds and Wigan, told Blues boss Paul Jewell that he was moving on after the final game of the season at Leicester.

The former Plymouth man turned down the offer of a two-year deal with Town with a three-season contract understood to be on offer at Fratton Park.

Meanwhile, Portsmouth striker David Nugent increasingly appears destined for Leicester, the Blues having been linked with the out-of-contract England man earlier in the summer.

Town have also now been mentioned in connection with 25-year-old Olympiacos striker Matt Derbyshire.

The former Blackburn man, a one-time England U21 international, spent last season on loan at Birmingham and had been linked with a £1 million permanent move to St Andrew’s, although manager Alex McLeish’s exit and their relegation may have some bearing on his situation. Cardiff City are also claimed to be interested.

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village_blue added 12:24 - Jun 15 Not sorry to see the greedy headless chicken move on,but good luck to him anyway.
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Ipswich24 added 12:24 - Jun 15 Sign Derbyshire shame about Nugent but yet again he is a money money money man like Norris
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Upbeat~ added 12:26 - Jun 15 He's only gone and left us
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We8Norwich added 12:27 - Jun 15 I wonder what reception he'll receive when he returns to PR with Pompey???
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mutters added 12:29 - Jun 15 good luck Chuck, thanks for your time here. Wish you well
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itfc1981 added 12:30 - Jun 15 best news of the summer a male chicken and a headless one at the same time.
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canveyblue added 12:30 - Jun 15 Good luck Dave, thanks for your efforts in the last year, shame about the previous two.
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BROTHERBLUE1974 added 12:32 - Jun 15 Not about the money was it! Cause they've got a better squad, then the town. NOT!!!
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TractorRoyNo1 added 12:32 - Jun 15 well done major clegg, for the sake of one extra years contact worth £500k, you have allowed a player worth £1.5+ on the open market to leave for nowt - brilliant - no wonder the MoD's finances are also up the creek.
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BrettenhamBlue added 12:33 - Jun 15 Make sure Derbyshire signs before he leaves Portman Road (IF he is the player there at the moment...). Best of luck Norris at Portsmouth. Here's hoping you end up mid-table at the end of the season!!
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Surco72 added 12:34 - Jun 15 The Norris deal was done a long time ago we should have had the £250000 when we could ,average work hard midfielder who had one good goalscoring season last year will be easily replaced . Would be interested in Derbyshire if there is any truth in that, good player and still young ,much better option than Nugent
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DietmarVanNostrilBoy added 12:34 - Jun 15 Had a clever knack of scoring 10 goals a year to mask his true mediocrity.
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8ashblue added 12:35 - Jun 15 he was a bad signing, jim paid too much and was injured too often. i'm not bitter but hope Pompy get the same service we did in the first two years
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BrettenhamBlue added 12:36 - Jun 15 Can't imagine that Cardiff will have the necessary funds to sign Derbyshire....
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bluepeter added 12:40 - Jun 15 So he DID promise to go after all. Judasd
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Surco72 added 12:41 - Jun 15 TractorRoy get real £1.5 million for Norris ? no one would have paid anywhere near that for a player who scored 13 league goals in over a 100 games for us ,hardly prolific is it ? Charlie Adam,Tarabaat, Scott Sinclair , Danny Graham all signed for £500,000 or less . And it would have been a joint decision by Jewell,Clegg and Evans what they thought Norris was worth and what length of contract and for a player suspended and injured so much during his time here i think they got it right ,lets see what he achieves at Pompey very little i would bet

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barnettractor added 12:44 - Jun 15 Norris time at ITFC, coincided with the worst spell since the Duncan era. During this period he always put in 100% and chipped in with a few goals, for which we should be grateful. However, whilst I believe we would of been worse off without him over the past couple of years, I am actually pleased he is going. He kind of epitomises the club during this period - average championship at best, hard to get out of your seat, never going to be legendary. Moving forward with Paul Jewell, I am more optimistic than I have been since Burley. Early signs are he wants to build a team (with youth and experience) which will evolve into an attacking attractive outfit.

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bedsitfc added 12:49 - Jun 15 i hope he dont get paid for months, and that squad of players are nowhere near as good as ours.
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Garv added 12:53 - Jun 15 Probably was done a while ago, which makes me angry when I think of stories regarding Norris; 'I want to be here etc.' Same to a small extent with Bullard I think, he probably knew he wasn't going to come here permanently but kept talking, e.g goals on Sunday 'get on the phone'. If he really wanted to join I think he could've done. But at the same time I'm not blaming him whatsoever, I wouldn't want to half my salary and with the offer of premier league football its completely fair enough, i just reckon he could've be a tiny bit more honest. Anyway good luck to Norris but I don't think we'll miss him. Good luck to Pompey in 1/2 years time, I think he won't be good enough then and can see him being sold to league one.

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SouperJim added 12:53 - Jun 15 A bit on the average side at this level and not worth what we paid, but still a useful player. Clearly his decision to go to Pompey is motivated by money but more fool us for allowing his contract to expire. Can't say I really bare him any ill will.
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tom_the_blue added 12:57 - Jun 15 TractorRoy and DimetarVanNostrilBoy- Thank you for cheering me up with your amusing/ incredibly stupid comments. 10 goals a season? One season of scoring 10 doesn't constitue 10 goals every season. Worth £1.5M? Good one. Good riddence to the headless chicken donkey who was never worth £2M and should never have been made our captain.
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BwoodBlue added 12:58 - Jun 15 He's clearly got a screw loose
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DiamondGezzer added 13:01 - Jun 15 Thankyou for your efforts at the club and hope all goes well for you. In Pj we trust.
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muhrensleftfoot added 13:07 - Jun 15 He's certainly not worth the money that Magilton paid for him, but I'd rather we had him than not. Double figures for goals last season. For him to go on a freebie is criminal, & Clegg should be held to account. Keane also to blame of course. He'd have signed a 3 yr deal at the start of last season I bet.
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MickMillsTash added 13:11 - Jun 15 He is not greedy - Given the option of an extra £500K - I would I have done the same as him- I am sure that everyone has played the 'i want to stay but I have got this offer from X' game hoping to bump your wage- if you have not, why not? I guess he said what he did hoping Ipswich may have upped the offer, knowing that he had a fall back position at Portsmouth He was not very good - not worth £2mill - I could never see him leading a team out of this division- not upwards anyway. No way we could have sold in the transfer window given the mess we were in at Christmas

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