Kevin Phillips’ Expert Predictions: Championship Season Review and Analysis

Conor Chaplin from Ipswich

Yeah, I think he would be a good fit. These types of players don’t come up very often. He was on loan at Pompey last year, playing regularly, helped them stay in the league, and he’s got experience; he can score goals. He might be just one of those players that comes in and gives you a season where he’s on fire and helps you challenge for the playoffs, if not promotion. These are the types of players when you’re a manager and scouting, you look around the league thinking, right, who’s being released from a club that’s got promoted to the Premier League, who’s been on loan. Can we go and nick him? And he certainly fits the bill for that. So I think Derby, if they were to sniff around, I think that could be a good signing for sure. Not just Derby, but quite a few other clubs in that league.