Ipswich Town have signed Dutch midfielder Azor Matusiwa from Rennes for an undisclosed fee and brought in Reims defender Cedric Kipre on a season-long loan.
Matusiwa, 27, has agreed a four-year deal at Portman Road following 29 Ligue 1 appearances for Rennes last season, scoring one goal.
He began his career in the Ajax youth system in his native Netherlands before spells at De Graafschap and Groningen. He joined Reims in 2021 and then Rennes in last year’s January transfer window.
Kipre, meanwhile, has plenty of experience of English football with Wigan, West Bromwich Albion and Cardiff City – the latter a loan spell in 2022-23.
