Shock news this evening as Town actually sign a player. Jermaine Wright has joined on a four year contract from Crewe.

The midfielder turned down an approach from Nottingham Forest who are reported to have offered him more cash than us. It seems, however, that George Burley and David Sheepshanks were able to sell their club to the player better than David Platt.

The 23-year-old Londoner travelled to Portman Road today and will join up with the squad in Sweden ready for Friday's game with Giffarna Sundsvall.

Manager and chairman were both chuffed with the signing. David Sheepshanks said: "I am absolutely thrilled that we have been able to bring Jermaine Wright to Ipswich Town, where I feel sure he will become an integral part of the first team set-up and a great favourite amongst our supporters.

"He is a young player, who the manager admires and who he believes will only improve further from our coaching and from playing with our talented squad."

Let's hope he plays up to his billing. There is also some news on the striker that George Burley has been looking for with Swedish striker Jonas Axaldal set to play for Town tonight in the game with Gefle IF.

Axeldal is available after being released by Malmo at the end of last season. He has previously played for Halmstad and in Italy with Foggia. Injury victims Marco Holster, Jim Magilton and Manu Thetis all hope to be available for tonight's game.

The two Swedish sides we play this week are in the First Division and not the Second as mentioned previously.

Town are today also linked with Chelsea midfielder Paul Hughes who had a brief loan spell with Norwich last season, scoring one own goal. Seems like the right sort of guy for us. Similarly linked player Danny Murphy has not gone on the Liverpool pre-season tour. He's on his way out of Scouseland whatever, could Portman Road be the destination?

Kieron Dyer continues the good start to his Newcastle career scoring the only Geordie goal in a 2-1 defeat at Livingston last night. By no means a classic the goal has been described as a "four inch tap in".

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