Town have completed the signing of Accrington Stanley centre-half Cameron Burgess.

Burgess, 25, who is the Blues’ 15th addition of the summer, has penned a three-year deal with an option for a further season for a fee understood to be £750,000.

“I am so pleased to be here,” Burgess told iFollow Ipswich. “This is a really good step up for me so I’m just looking forward to working hard and getting started.

“This is a talented squad and I am excited to work with the group. I will work hard, roll my sleeves up and get stuck in.

“I saw there were more than 20,000 fans at Portman Road for the first game of the season, so I cannot wait to experience that myself.”

Quizzed on what he will bring to the side, he added: “Hopefully a bit of leadership, communication and organising.

“It’s a talented group of lads, there’s no denying that, so hopefully I can help drive the standards; work hard, roll our sleeves up and try and put in some good performances.

“I'm delighted. It's such an honour to be at such a massive club. Yesterday [Friday], I was preparing for a different game and now I’m stood here so it’s a bit of surprise but I’m buzzing to be here.

“It ended up happening quicker than what I thought it would which is a good thing.

“I don’t think anyone could turn it down in my position and many other positions as well. It’s a bit of a dream come true to progress, be at such a massive club and hopefully be part of some good things.”

Burgess says Town's home ground already had a special place in his career: “I have a bit of affinity with the place already, I made my professional debut at Portman Road. I think it was when we got relegated to the Championship with Fulham

“It was a [Saturday] night on Sky [on the opening day of 2014/15 which the Blues won 2-1]. I played as a defensive midfielder that night which was a bit of a strange one for me. It was an unbelievable experience and I can’t wait to experience it more.”

Town boss Paul Cook added: “Cameron brings great balance and experience to the team.

“He’s another player at a really good age and it makes competition in the backline really strong.

“Again I want to thank the owners and Mark Ashton [CEO] for helping us get this sorted.”

Aberdeen-born Burgess, who can also play at left-back, was a youth player with Celtic, ECU Joondalup in Perth Australia and Fulham before breaking into the Cottagers side for that August 2014 game against Town.

While a Fulham player, 6ft 4in tall Burgess spent time on loan at Ross County, Cheltenham. Oldham and Bury before joining Scunthorpe in 2017.

A spell on loan at Salford followed before he moved on to Accrington in August 2020.

Having won caps at U18 and U19 levels with Scotland, he switched his international allegiance to Australia and has played for their U20s and U23s, his family having emigrated to Perth, Western Australia when he was 11 during his father Stuart's playing career.

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Marcus added 02:14 - Aug 16 Can he play in defence?
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TractorRoyNo1 added 07:27 - Aug 16 At last! Great stats from last season, playing for a little club, hopefully he can continue this at Ipswich.
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Pilgrimblue added 10:02 - Aug 16 I'm not sure if he's left or right footed. We haven't had good balance in the defence for long time so hoping we have now!
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DavoIPB added 10:20 - Aug 16 KiwiTractor - at last somebody who actually saw what happened for the goal. Terrible pass back to Woolfenden, he had nowhere to go! He should perhaps have hoofed the ball out but they have been obviously been told not to play like that. For the other goal the midfielder tracking back got in the way and didn't a good challenge. Defender had no chance. We were undone by a striker who is actually a cut above this league and a should have won it despite a team that locked up their defence. I don't like it when Ipswich lose but that was an entertaining game. Woolfenden won us the corner that Norwood should have scored from to win the game. We criticize We are a good side and will win games. Just an observation Man City lost yesterday to Totenham. Man City should have won it. They had all the possession, created lots of chances and were outdone by a world class striker. That's just football! Credit to Burton, Newport and Morecambe. They all did what they had to do, took their chances. Morecambe and Burton at present do not look like teams for relegation. Burton have a manager with good experience and a good track record as well as having developed a good squad of players. I think fans have to realise that this is Ipswich towns level. We have a team of good quality first division players. I have watched the warm ups for many games over the past couple of seasons and the ones for these games are so much better. We have players who can actually pass the ball and have the ability to hit a good shot. I know Aluko had an awful first game but in the warm up he looked quality. Smashed the ball into the goal every time, passed it well. Not a popular opinion but I think over the course of this season he will develop into a good player for the club. I am a bit worried that tactically we seem very poor. Defense is far too exposed with wing backs getting caught out all of the time leaving woolfenden on his own often facing three attackers. Why we continue to have one forward up front when playing at home against teams that are going to sit back and let us attack them is beyond me. We don't seem to be able to adjust tactics for the opposition. They seem to have done their homework on us and worked out a way of beating us. We don't seem to be able to do the same. Cook saying we nullified a threat when we lost is just laughable. Last comment from me. What does Dobra have to do to get into the first team and play regularly. I don't think any of the players we have in the squad are better.

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