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MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR NEW PARTY, IPSWICH

by
The LeaguePaper Team
21 April 2019

IT MAY not feel like it now, but relegation was exactly what Ipswich Town needed.
What was the alternative? You can sack the manager. Sign new players. Hire a director of football. But with owner Marcus Evans unwilling to provide a competitive playing budget, aspiration is impossible.
Evans himself admitted as much in January, when he estimated that the club’s wage bill was probably “14th or 15th” in the Championship.
“I would say we will always rank there, whereas some of the clubs that throw money at it tend to be, two or three years later, down below us in terms o...

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