Town to Sign Norwich Midfielder Nunez
Wednesday, 27th Aug 2025 21:07

Town are set to sign Norwich City midfielder Marcelino Nunez in a £10 million deal.

The Chilean is understood to be in Ipswich to complete the formalities on the switch for £7.5 million up front plus a further £2.5 million in add-ons.

The 25-year-old, who currently has a minor ankle problem, joined the Canaries from Universidad Catolica in the summer of 2022 and has gone on to make 86 starts and 33 sub appearances, scoring 12 goals, including the free-kick which won the East Anglian derby for Norwich at Carrow Road in 2023/24.

Nunez, who has been capped 31 times by his country, scoring three goals, has a year left on his contract and has turned down new terms on two occasions.

Norwich are reported to be signing Silkeborg’s Pelle Mattsson for £2.7 million as his replacement.

Town have been looking to add to their central midfield options this summer with skipper Sam Morsy, Massimo Luongo and loanee Kalvin Phillips having departed.

The last player to make the move from Carrow Road to Portman Road on a permanent basis was keeper Andy Marshall in the summer of 2001, while other players have represented both clubs since then on a full-time or loan basis over the course of their careers, including David Wright, Jordan Rhodes, David Healy, Alan Lee, Matthew Bates, Kevin Lisbie and Brandon Williams.

More recently, Liam Gibbs turned down a contract with Town to join the Canaries in 2021.

Among those who represented both clubs on a permanent basis prior to that were Clive Woods, Trevor Putney, John Deehan, Louie Donowa, Clive Baker, Johnny Miller, Peter Morris and Keith Bertschin.

Off the field, former Norwich striker Joe Royle managed the Blues, Paul Lambert both sides, while current Canaries boss Liam Manning, his assistant Chris Hogg and first-team coach/analyst James Krause are all former Town academy players and staff.

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Bazza8564 added 17:44 - Aug 28 BurleyJefferson, whats the point of learning English when you play in Norwich. I lived up there for 3 years in the 90's. beer was boar and if you wanted stamps you had to go down the "pooost orfice"!
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armchaircritic59 added 17:59 - Aug 28 At last, maybe I've got a size complex, but now it looks like someone's coming to the club who is the same height as me, or as someone else put in a post earlier, another midget! Lots of sizeists in here, height only has a loose relationship with body strength and muscle, one day I hope that fact will sink in, but somehow I doubt it.
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Dissboyitfc added 18:19 - Aug 28

Blueboy I have spoken to many scum fans today and they are upset, really upset the general feeling is they are losing their most creative player and they are gutted! I seem to remember when Gibbs left you saying good luck to him and who can blame him going to a bigger club. Norwich fans saying this morning that they would happily give us Gibbs and keep Nunez.
Always got to put a negative on everything and you don’t need facts either!
Will be interesting to read the negative spin you put on Sindre walle engali when he signs? I have every faith you will find one or two negatives, again no facts required!

MK1 added 18:32 - Aug 28 Can only make us stronger and them weaker. Win all round.
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dirtydingusmagee added 19:12 - Aug 28 Anything that p#sses that lot off ,which it has is good by me Nunez will be missed big time. (Despite what Blueboy says.)
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pup12 added 19:14 - Aug 28 Let's hope his injury clears up ! Then let's hope Mckenna doesn't hold him back ftom getting the pitch for us too long ! I remember when a player signed on the Thursday and started on the Saturday. Thus creating that spark the team had needed !! But what do I know .
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