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The Chuba Akpom transfer saga gripped the Championship in the run-up to the opening game of the season.

Middlesbrough tried and failed to re-sign Akpom, who top scored in the Championship with 28 goals for Boro in 2023/24, before Birmingham City jumped to the front of the queue.

Akpom, 29, was all set to sign for Blues on loan from Ajax before Ipswich Town made a late move to hijack the deal.

Adding to the drama was the small matter that Blues and Ipswich were due to face each other in the Championship’s curtain-raiser at the end of that particular week.

Akpom didn’t know whether he was coming or going for a while, but he insists he was always going to Ipswich.

"It was quite entertaining for you guys (the media)!" Akpom told the East Anglian Daily Times. "But for me, h

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