{"id":694153,"date":"2026-07-16T03:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694153\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:58:14","slug":"elkan-baggott-millwall-sign-indonesia-defender-from-ipswich-town-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694153\/","title":{"rendered":"Elkan Baggott: Millwall sign Indonesia defender from Ipswich Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millwall have signed Indonesia international Elkan Baggott from Ipswich Town for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old centre-back returns to the Championship following Ipswich&#8217;s promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a good age, has a real appetite to improve and fits the profile we look for defensively,&#8221; Steve Gallen, Millwall&#8217;s director of football, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millwallfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/july\/15\/millwall-announce-elkan-baggott-signing\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club&#8217;s website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millwall have not disclosed the length of his contract, describing it as &#8220;long-term&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baggott, who made nine appearances for Ipswich after emerging through their youth system, is Millwall&#8217;s fifth signing of the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has had loan spells at King&#8217;s Lynn, Gillingham, Cheltenham Town, Bristol Rovers and Blackpool, and has won 27 caps for Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millwall have signed Indonesia international Elkan Baggott from Ipswich Town for an undisclosed fee. The 23-year-old centre-back returns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}