Huddersfield Town should plot Ipswich Town raid as fresh transfer news emerges | OneFootball

Huddersfield Town should make a move for Ipswich Town midfielder Cameron Humphreys this summer.

Huddersfield Town have started their 2025/26 League One campaign very well, as one of the pre-season title favourites in the third-tier after what has been an ambitious summer transfer window, that should not be concluded just yet.

Kieran McKenna’s former first-team coach at Ipswich Town, Lee Grant, was the surprise appointment at the John Smith’s Stadium following the conclusion of the 24/25 season, and he has been followed by a plethora of exciting additions for a League One side this summer.

After all that fanfare, Huddersfield then dispatched of last season’s League One play-off finalists Leyton Orient by three goals to nil at the John Smith’s Stadium on the opening day of the 25/26 campaign.

Orient appear to be in a bit of disarray as they search for an entire rebuild, and an improvement in their performance level will remain required from Huddersfield, but it is a positive start.

One player that they should now target to help raise the bar of their performance level would be Ipswich Town midfielder Cameron Humphreys, who could well be available in the final few weeks of the window.

Huddersfield should make a move for Humphreys

A versatile midfielder, Humphreys was excellent on loan at Wycombe Wanderers last season as the Chairboys mounted a title challenge for much of the campaign, before fading into a play-off semi-final defeat to Charlton Athletic.

Humphreys was the key man in that midfield, especially after the departure of Aaron Morley in January, and he remained a reliable figure who could get up and down.

Capable of playing in both a box-to-box role as well as in attacking midfield, it appears as though Humphreys’ chances of breaking into the Ipswich first-team this season is becoming more and more limited.

Jens Cajuste is expected to return to Portman Road soon, whilst they also have an interest in both Middlesbrough midfielder Hayden Hackney and former Burnley captain Josh Brownhill.

As well as that, the Tractor Boys have also hijacked Birmingham City’s move for Chuba Akpom, with the Ajax attacker likely to arrive and play in both the so-called ‘number ten’ role as well as up-front.

That is only going to lead to Humphreys being even further down the pecking order at Ipswich and, whilst he will believe he is now ready for the Championship, another season of being one of the better midfielders in League One with the Terriers would not go a miss.

Humphreys would suit the apparent Lee Grant style

Grant, as to be expected having been a part of McKenna’s coaching staff at Ipswich, is aiming to play a progressive and modern-day, front-foot style of football, and Humphreys appears to be ideally suited to that.

Under Matt Bloomfield, before the arrival of Mike Dodds, Humphreys proved himself to be a key man for a leading side in League One playing an entertaining and attacking style.

Huddersfield played a 4-2-3-1 system at the weekend, with Herbie Kane and Ryan Ledson taking up the two spots in central midfield, behind Ben Wiles in the number ten.

Huddersfield do have plenty of options and variety to their side and, despite the pedigree of Kane and Ledson, Humphreys would fancy his chances of getting a spot in the eleven, especially over the former.