{"id":261572,"date":"2025-07-13T12:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261572\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:32:18","slug":"ipswich-town-sam-morsy-linked-with-derby-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261572\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town: Sam Morsy linked with Derby County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Morsy, 33, is in the last year of his contract at Portman Road, with journalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/reluctantnicko\/status\/1944290294054498447\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alan Nixon reporting on X this morning<\/a> that fellow Championship side Derby County are interested.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nixon claims that Morsy could leave Town &#8216;if the right offer comes in&#8217;, and says Rams&#8217; boss John Eustace is a &#8216;huge fan of his experience.&#8217;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25305501.quiet-assassin-can-play-need-know-incoming-cedric-kipre\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quiet assassin who can play&#8230; All you need to know about the incoming Cedric Kipre<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Morsy is one of just three midfielders in the Blues&#8217; senior squad at the moment, with the others &#8211; Jack Taylor and returning loanee Cameron Humphreys &#8211; having never consistently started for\u00a0Kieran McKenna&#8217;s men.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dutch midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/sport\/25305019.ipswich-town-sign-cedric-kipre-azor-matusiwa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azor Matusiwa is set to sign from Rennes<\/a>, with Mexican international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/sport\/25308972.marcel-ruiz-ipswich-town-negotiating-10m-deal-mexican-midfielder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcel Ruiz linked yesterday too.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Mark&#8217;s verdict<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Given he&#8217;s in the last year of his contract and is a serial winner, it&#8217;s perhaps no surprise to see Morsy linked with moves this summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Town are obviously in the middle of an engine room revamp, with the all-action Matusiwa on the way and the Ruiz link emerging yesterday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But Morsy will still have an important part to play next season. He&#8217;s the beating heart of the Blues, and I&#8217;d be surprised if he was allowed to move on this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morsy, 33, is in the last year of his contract at Portman Road, with journalist\u00a0Alan Nixon reporting on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-261572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114845944547053280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}