{"id":448419,"date":"2019-06-10T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=448419"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:33:53","slug":"james-norwood-ipswich-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/06\/10\/james-norwood-ipswich-town\/","title":{"rendered":"James Norwood Completes Ipswich Town Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ipswich Town have signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f01b35ea\/James-Norwood?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Norwood<\/a> on a three-year contract from Tranmere Rovers. This contract will see the player stay with the club until 2022. The transfer fee has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<h1>Ipswich complete signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f01b35ea\/James-Norwood?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Norwood<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f We are thrilled to confirm the signing of striker James Norwood on a three-year deal with the option of a further 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Portman Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnorwood_10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jnorwood_10<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/itfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#itfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ipswich Town FC (@IpswichTown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IpswichTown\/status\/1138151609605677056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Career So Far<\/h2>\n<p>Throughout his football career, Norwood has played for Exeter City, Forest Green Rovers and Tranmere Rovers.\u00a0Last season, he scored 32 goals in 53 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer, Paul Lambert&#8217;s third of the summer, signals Ipswich&#8217;s intent to challenge for an immediate return to the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues were relegated from the second-tier for the first time in 62 years after a disastrous campaign.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means For the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Norwood becomes Ipswich&#8217;s third signing of the summer after Thomas Holy and\u00a0Adam Przybek completed moves to the club.<\/p>\n<p>The talismanic striker finished top-scorer in League Two last season and played an instrumental role as Tranmere earned promotion via the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Norwood has spent most of his career in non-league football; however, the 28-year-old has scored 92 goals in 189 goals since signing for Tranmere in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Before then, Norwood spent most of his time as a wide player at Forest Green. Featuring on the left-side, the goalscorer continued to contribute with 49 goals in four seasons at the Gloucestershire outfit.<\/p>\n<p>But this season, Norwood has shone in League Two and finished joint top-scorer throughout England alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/manchester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a> striker <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/4d034881\/Sergio-Aguero?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sergio Aguero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Norwood will add well-needed strength in depth to Ipswich&#8217;s squad. The Blues&#8217; only senior strikers available are <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/4cb3b5a7\/Kayden-Jackson?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kayden Jackson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c9408be8\/Ellis-Harrison?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ellis Harrison<\/a>; however, both have been linked with moves away from Portman Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/07059b2e\/Freddie-Sears?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freddie Sears<\/a> is also at Lambert&#8217;s disposal, but the forward is sidelined until November with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Norwood will likely be Ipswich&#8217;s main striker. The Blues are reportedly keen on adding to the attacking department after last season&#8217;s woeful tally of 36 goals from 46 League games.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <a id=\"-BrQHW3-TXVn0yg7nUGRMw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1148918381\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-BrQHW3-TXVn0yg7nUGRMw',sig:'MKogVF8DMgs8YOIS17L60TQKoauNx431gJRj02dHLxo=',w:'594px',h:'414px',items:'1148918381',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ipswich Town have signed forward James Norwood on a three-year contract from Tranmere Rovers. This contract will see the player stay with the club until 2022. The transfer fee has not been disclosed. Ipswich complete signing of James Norwood &nbsp; \u270d\ufe0f We are thrilled to confirm the signing of striker James Norwood on a three-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":455639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,30,28],"tags":[168,1397,3167,188,957,2662,136],"class_list":["post-448419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-efl","tag-ipswich-town","tag-james-norwood","tag-league-one","tag-paul-lambert","tag-tranmere-rovers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}