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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Lingy1985 added 13:11 - Jun 15 dont understand why people are so negative, at this level he chips in with goals, not his fault he played in a 451 and no one else was scoring. he did get forward to support the lone man when he could and always tried hard. id rather see a player trying hard and giving everything than watch others who seem to coast along and not put the effort in. The away Norwich game showed he did care about the club. as for his move, we shouldnt have allowed him to leave for nothing, but thats Keane and the boards fault for not sorting the contract problems earlier. Never going to be a squad player with his wage bill but could do a job for us for a year more. i dont blame the guy at 30 wanting to secure a contract to see out his last few years playing, who wouldnt do the same?

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pitseablue added 13:12 - Jun 15 Over priced, Over rated and now Overpaid.
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petieboy2011 added 13:20 - Jun 15 Good luck Chuck and thank you for your efforts whilst you have been with Ipswich. I cant help but feel that its a backwards step though (no disrespect to Pompey). i just hope the league placings come May next year back up my feeling! Pompey are still going through financial difficulties right?
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fratpack added 13:26 - Jun 15 Pompey are still in financial difficulties but then our new ownership went through a couple of weeks ago, so hopefully those days are behind us now. Alot of the same fans who thought he was well worth a new contract not so long ago seem to of changed theirs minds now he has decided to move on. Lets see the tables at the end of the season then to see if he made the right decision in moving, my feeling is is he'll be extremely pleased!

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StowTractorBoy added 13:30 - Jun 15 Paid far too much for him in the first place but that was not his fault. I think some on here are a bit harsh as the bloke always gave 100% and 11 goals from midfield last season in a poor team is pretty good. Would also take issue that Pompeys squad is worse than ours at this moment in time anyway. Last year they should have been a top 6 side with the players they had but Cotterills continuous whining about injuries and no money etc. got the bloke off the hook as they vastly under achieved. Not saying Pompey are a better Club than us far from it and why he want to go and play at dump of a ground in Fratton Park I'll never know. Well in fact I do know - money. Good luck Mr. Norris but your decision could come back to haunt you.

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cornishnick added 13:38 - Jun 15 clearly gone for the money which is a shame. Biggest outrage is just how Pompey can offer such big wages after being in administration so recently. There's something wrong about that
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Doctor_Albran added 13:40 - Jun 15 Fratpack, actually that's not true about people only now moaning about him - some on here would moan about their mothers for having given birth to them, as the saying goes, there are no pleasing some people...! Regarding Norris, I'd have been happy to see him stay, but having Bullard in the side towards the end of the season highlighted what a limited player he was - don't get me wrong a good engine and an eye for goal are not to be sniffed at, but regularily injured and limited passing ability can stop a team from progressing - it depends on what your side needs - we still need creativity (have done for about 5 years now), where as you seem to need a steady eddie (we've been playing two of those together for the past 2 years - hence our performances!). But good luck to you for the season and lets hope that your club has managed to find the biscuit tin with the 50p's in for the meter when those night matches come along!

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algarvefan added 13:40 - Jun 15 What's done is done, good luck Chuck at Pompey you'll need it lol
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radiogaga added 13:43 - Jun 15 Norris - great big waste of space. Awful footballer with quite frankly an awful attitude. Good riddance and thanks for nothing. Never known an ITFC captain to have such little pride in wearing the armband. Hope he enjoys playing for the best team in Hampshire...Oh hang on, he joined Portsmouth and not Southampton, so the second best team in Hampshire. Oh well, the extra money will make up for playing for a rubbish team with no prospects I guess...

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bluewarrior added 13:44 - Jun 15 I'm bored of the Norris saga - time to move on. All of the speculation about how this situation was managed is exactly that....speculation. The only fact that I'm basing my assumptions on is that ME is a hugely successful businessman and he wouldn't have Clegg to manage some of his millions unless he had complete faith in his ability. On the face of it the money paid for Norris and spent on wages looks wasted but there has to be more to it than that. Same as McAuley, Norris is a good championship player and I wouldn't have moaned had he stayed BUT lack of pace would have found both of them out week in week out in the Prem - and although McAuley has made the step up, he's only likely to be a squad player at WBA. I think that PJ's policy of bringing in some experienced old heads to get us out of this division blended with some promising youngsters who have the potential to cut it in the Prem is a pretty logical strategy.

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MaySixth added 13:44 - Jun 15 I liked David Norris. Good player, 110% effort. Good luck at Pompey apart from when you face us. Where I hope we DESTROY you and make you look like an idiot.
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ipsuefa added 13:46 - Jun 15 fwiw I think he was our best player last year. He is not brilliant at any particular aspect but very good and solid at them all. Also always good chance of a goal in him hence him never being over 10/1 for first goal. I don't imagine Portsmouth were able to offer him more than Leeds, Wigan, Forest ect so after living down south with Plymouth maybe its family reasons for his move. Good luck Norris, you will get my applause when your next at PR.

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bluestu71 added 13:47 - Jun 15 Shame on you Norris
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corshamblue added 13:48 - Jun 15 . . . . . much the same as Big G ! wouldn't sign reduced contracts. Can't blame either of them, but I do blame Clegg and Keane for letting the situation get as bad as it has. Good luck Chuck. COYB
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blueblood66 added 13:49 - Jun 15 Big shame...we'll miss him and hope that PJ finds a very good replacement? Starnage move for me, but there you go.
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hampstead_blue added 13:49 - Jun 15 No Loss. Very average indeed. He must be on a fair whack to turn his back on us. Glad he's gone.
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radiogaga added 13:51 - Jun 15 and I thought this was an ITFC forum. Maybe fratpack should go on the Portsmouth ones, obviously the Portsmouth fans like to stick their noses in our business as much as their manager does!!!
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bluelady added 13:56 - Jun 15 corshamblue, whilst i cannot blame Big G for moving upwards and onwards to the premiership, Portsmouth, perlease! That has to be for money, certainly not for the wonderful club and manager (IMOH)
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WickedBlue added 14:23 - Jun 15 See the anti Clegg morons are out in force again......they are laughable...
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jas0999 added 14:25 - Jun 15 No surprise - there was no smoke without Fire and this deal (I suspect) was concluded some time ago.
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ITFC_Essex added 14:31 - Jun 15 Pompey know how to waste money dont they! League One material soon methinks.
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yorksblue added 14:37 - Jun 15 Let's just hope he has a mare against us at PR nxt season and we hammer them into the ground , like we should have done by HT this season.
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broomfield123 added 14:44 - Jun 15 thought he moved to us lot to be closer to his family in peterbourgh but hay hoo. my geograpy was never much good . obviously portsmouth is closer to peterbourgh than ipswich to peterborugh
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AndyUK61873 added 14:45 - Jun 15 I find it hugle funny to see how fans on here are still all over Clegg, you sohuld have signed up Norris, McAulaey how could you let that happen to this team we ar elosing our best players....let me see with those "best" players we have struggled for 2 yrs to get out of the bottom 10 of the division.....lets be honest all teams face a time to cut players, make tough choices, live by a budget (a business is like a person it is not an endless pit of gold to use).....lets stop living in the past and look to the future and a new structure.....I refer to anothers commnets Evans has not made millions as a businessman by making poor choices of key people to have in control of his finances....would highly suspect he has not made a poor choice this time....it is only a poor choice to those fans that struggle to let the past go.......

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evansblue added 14:50 - Jun 15 An average player with little speed who was unable to stamp his mark on games in the way a £2 million pound player should. Thanks for your efforts and best of luck Mr Norris.
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