{"id":726073,"date":"2026-08-03T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726073\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:45:11","slug":"ipswich-town-pat-nevin-on-daizen-maedas-move-from-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726073\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town &#8211; Pat Nevin on Daizen Maeda&#8217;s move from Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Japanese superstar arrived at the Blues from the Scottish giants for \u00a38m + \u00a32m add-ons earlier this summer, having won five Scottish Premiership titles, three Scottish Cups and two Scottish League Cups during his time in Glasgow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And he looked very lively on his Town debut in the 2-1 friendly win at Wycombe on Saturday, playing the first half and hitting the post with a diving header.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Daizen Maeda impressed at Wycombe (Image: Ross Halls)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But Nevin doubts he&#8217;ll replicate his Scottish success in Suffolk &#8211; even though he believes that he&#8217;ll do a good job for the Blues.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Daizen Maeda won&#8217;t have the same impact in the Premier League as he did in Scotland,&#8221; Nevin insisted, speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betano.co.uk\/en-gb\/casino?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Betano Online Casino.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There&#8217;s quite a lot of players that have got that pace in England that he&#8217;s got, and not so many in Scotland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;His work rate&#8217;s incredible. So he&#8217;ll be dangerous and he&#8217;ll have his moments and he&#8217;s capable of doing well.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He&#8217;ll be a good player, but is he going to absolutely suddenly turn and become one of great players in English football? I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s quite that. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s quite going to happen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;But will he do a good job? Yeah, he&#8217;ll do a good job.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  What do you think? Leave a comment below and get involved in the debate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Japanese superstar arrived at the Blues from the Scottish giants for \u00a38m + \u00a32m add-ons earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726073","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\/726073","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=726073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}