{"id":322007,"date":"2025-08-06T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322007\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:14:14","slug":"chuba-akpom-agrees-move-to-new-club-after-ipswich-town-and-birmingham-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322007\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuba Akpom agrees move to new club after Ipswich Town and Birmingham offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mckenna-Akpom-1140x641.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mckenna, Akpom\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Hasan Karim, Breaking Media\/Ajax<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wayne-Veysey-headshot-150x150.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Wayne Veysey\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Wed 6 August 2025 8:29, UK <\/p>\n<p>Chuba Akpom has agreed a deal with Ipswich Town after rejecting an offer from Birmingham City,\u00a0<strong>sources have told Football Insider.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ajax striker, 29, has held talks with both Championship clubs as he plots a return to English football.<\/p>\n<p>Akpom has reached an agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/ipswich-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ipswich<\/a> and is set to complete a move soon.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham are said to be \u201cgutted\u201d to have missed out on the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a> and Middlesbrough star, who has an impressive track record in England\u2019s second tier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ipswich hijack Birmingham\u2019s Akpom deal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Akpom had looked set to complete a loan move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/birmingham-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> this summer, and had even flown over for a medical with the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>However, once the forward reached England, Ipswich joined the race for his signature and managed to hijack the deal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/jude-bellingham-responds-to-exciting-transfer-announcement-at-birmingham-city\/#:~:text=Chris%20Davies%20to%20eye%20Premier%20League%20promotion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham are expected to be fighting towards the top of the Championship<\/a> next season, after promotion from League One, but the Tractor Boys are bookmakers\u2019 favourites to win the division.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/chuba-akpom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akpom<\/a> has put an end to the saga by opting for a move to heavily-backed Ipswich rather than a switch to St Andrews.<\/p>\n<p>The two clubs face off on Friday night to open up the Championship season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chris-Davies-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Birmingham City Newcastle United\" class=\"wp-image-583372\" \/>Birmingham have missed out on Akpom (Credit: Getty)<strong>Championship clubs race for former Man United man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Football Insider<\/strong> exclusively revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/championship-clubs-race-to-sign-brandon-williams-after-hull-city-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandon Williams is being eyed up by a number of teams from the Championship<\/a> and abroad.<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a>\u00a0full-back has caught the attention of several clubs after a successful trial at Hull City.<\/p>\n<p>Williams featured in two pre-season games for the Tigers, impressing in both, with the East Yorkshire side keen to offer him a deal.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hull will face competition for the 24-year-old\u2019s signature after his trial alerted several of their Championship rivals to his availability.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Hasan Karim, Breaking Media\/Ajax Wed 6 August 2025 8:29, UK Chuba Akpom has agreed a deal with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,748,114762,393,4884,1926,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chuba-akpom","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-ipswich-town","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114980825836134636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322007","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=322007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}