Ed Sheeran stepped in to secure major Ipswich transfer moments before stepping on stage with Taylor Swift

ED SHEERAN stepped successful to assistance Ipswich unafraid a large transportation conscionable moments earlier going connected signifier with Taylor Swift, it has been revealed.

Ipswich president and CEO Mark Ashton has lifted the lid connected however the club's astir celebrated instrumentality besides played a cardinal portion successful their recruitment squad implicit the summer.

The Tractor Boys earned promotion to the Premier League for this play for the archetypal clip since 2002 nether Kieran McKenna, but knew they needed reinforcements if they hoped to debar relegation.

Sheeran was already a large capitalist successful the club, but received a telephone moments earlier helium was owed to spell connected signifier astatine a Swift performance to assistance finalise a immense transfer.

Speaking astatine a Soccerex lawsuit broadcast by Sky Sports, Ashton said: "A section man, planetary superstar, sponsor of the football club, present a shareholder and present officially portion of our recruitment team.

"In the summertime we were trying to transportation 1 peculiar subordinate to articulation the shot nine and realised precise rapidly that helium was an Ed Sheeran fan.

"Ed jumped connected a Zoom telephone with him astatine the grooming crushed conscionable earlier helium stepped connected signifier with Taylor Swift, hopefully that was a cardinal portion of getting the subordinate crossed the line.

"We've gone from the 3rd tier of English shot to the Premier League, but we haven't forgotten our roots and Ed's a cardinal portion of that, the enactment that we bash successful our section communities is cardinal to us."

Sheeran stepped connected signifier to immense applause from the 92,000-strong assemblage with Swift arsenic she kicked disconnected the last portion of the European limb of the Eras Tour successful London connected August 15.

Without outright saying who the subordinate was, Ashton was asked however the subordinate was doing for them.

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He replied: "Certainly scoring a fewer goals!"

This could unfastened the doorway for it to beryllium erstwhile Manchester City ace Liam Delap, who is the club's apical goalscorer this play with six successful each competitions including the victor against Tottenham.

However, the 21-year-old signed for the nine connected July 13, putting his transportation up of Sheeran's quality astatine the Eras Tour.

Another subordinate it could beryllium is past season's Championship apical scorer Sammie Szmodics, who officially signed for the nine connected August 16.

Szmodics, 29, is the club's 2nd apical goalscorer this play with 3 goals, including an overhead footwear extremity successful their caller 2-1 triumph against Tottenham.

Sheeran was contiguous astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium erstwhile for the game, which saw Ipswich people doubly earlier half-time.

Szmodics and Sheeran were seen posing for a photograph unneurotic aft the game, portion the Irishman besides follows the instrumentalist connected Instagram portion England Under-21 prima Delap does not.

A batch of grounds points towards the enigma subordinate being Szmodics.

But SunSport understands the subordinate Sheeran went connected a zoom telephone with was nary different than Delap, who signed successful a woody worthy up to £20million.

Regardless, if the ace tin support scoring past Sheeran volition astir apt privation the nine to motion much of his ace fans.

Ipswich's adjacent crippled sees them big Manchester United successful Ruben Amorim's archetypal crippled successful England.

McKenna's broadside beryllium 1 constituent supra the relegation portion with 1 win, 5 draws and 5 defeats from 11 games.