{"id":659656,"date":"2025-12-28T11:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659656\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:41:18","slug":"ipswich-town-sam-morsy-super-close-to-bristol-city-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659656\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town: Sam Morsy &#8216;super close&#8217; to Bristol City move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The midfielder, who led the Blues to back-to-back promotions under Kieran McKenna, left the club last summer to join Kuwait SC on a free transfer. However, his time in the Middle East lasted just a few weeks, and he soon found himself back in England.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Unable to join a new club until January, it was reported that Bristol City were closing in on a move for the 34-year-old. McKenna went on to confirm that, while Morsy had a number of options on the table, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/sport\/25721018.ipswich-town-kieran-mckenna-sam-morsys-talks-bristol-city\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nine-cap Egypt international was &#8216;in talks&#8217; over a move to Ashton Gate<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25724545.theyre-different---davis-azon-akpom-bring-no-9-role\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;They&#8217;re different&#8217; &#8211; Davis on what Azon and Akpom bring to the No.9 role<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Robins boss Struber has since added that the club are &#8216;super close&#8217; to signing Morsy, and that he may have a Bristol City shirt on &#8216;in the next few days&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cYes, we are super close with Sam,\u201d he said after his side&#8217;s Boxing Day win at West Brom.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI would say that Sam gives us a little bit more experience. He\u2019s a player with a little bit of a different face and he can be, of course, on the pitch for us super important.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut also, next to Knighty [Jason Knight], next to Rob Dickie, next to Zak Vyner, he can be also in the dressing room for us an important player.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe had the chance to get him, and I would say in the next few days, maybe he has a Bristol City shirt on.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  BBC Sport have reported that Morsy will sign an initial six-month contract, with the Robins holding an option to extend his deal by a further 12 months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bristol City head to Portman Road on Tuesday, January 20th (7:45pm).\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The midfielder, who led the Blues to back-to-back promotions under Kieran McKenna, left the club last summer to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-659656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115797012157083104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659656","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=659656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}