{"id":102664,"date":"2025-08-28T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102664\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:48:07","slug":"norwich-city-nunez-set-for-ipswich-mattsson-to-replace-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102664\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City: Nunez set for Ipswich, Mattsson to replace him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  City have agreed a \u00a310million package with the Tractor Boys for Nunez, including \u00a32.5million in \u2018achievable bonuses\u2019, despite being keen to keep the player as he entered the final year of his contract.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They offered Nunez new deals\u00a0both this summer and last season but saw\u00a0their advances rejected by the Chilean\u2019s representatives. He&#8217;s now in Ipswich to complete the final touches on the transfer, after Town submitted the only bid received for him during the transfer window.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nunez is set to be replaced by Mattsson, who is travelling to Norfolk\u00a0to complete a medical ahead of a move worth \u00a32.7million plus \u00a3300,000 of add-ons.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Norwich preferred Mirko Topic to Mattsson earlier this summer, signing the Serbian from Famalicao with negotiations deadlocked over a transfer fee for the latter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But they\u00a0are now back in the market and keen to make this pursuit of Mattsson stick after tracking him since well before the end of last season. They&#8217;ve got four days to complete any further business, with\u00a0the deadline at 7pm on Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Head coach Liam Manning refused to rule out any further transfer business in his pre-Blackburn press conference this afternoon, despite his side having completed 11 senior signings already.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It&#8217;s the transfer window, right? You never know what happens,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It\u2019s such a fluid, evolving time of year that anything can happen.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nunez scored the winner the last time the two sides met, firing a free-kick home from distance to extend City&#8217;s unbeaten East Anglian derby run to 16 years. He&#8217;s played 119 games in yellow and green since joining from Universidad Catolica in 2022, scoring 12 goals and claiming 10 assists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mattsson is making his first move away from Denmark after coming through the academy at Silkeborg, and admitted earlier in the summer that he saw his future elsewhere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;m not disappointed that nothing has fallen into place yet,&#8221; he told \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.midtjyllandsavis.dk\/artikel\/020135d8-acdb-496a-bed4-1987d592071b\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Midtjyllands Avis<\/a>. &#8220;My agent and I are watching the time and seeing if something comes along that suits both parties.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Then we&#8217;ll see when it happens&#8230; if it happens. It&#8217;s not up to me whether I&#8217;m here after September 1st, but I&#8217;ve said that I&#8217;m ready for the next step.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City have agreed a \u00a310million package with the Tractor Boys for Nunez, including \u00a32.5million in \u2018achievable bonuses\u2019, despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-102664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}