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I have to question that. Pukki was a gem of a player at Brondby known for his brilliant one touch finishes. He had done well at Schalke and it was only at Celtic that he struggled - yet still scored 7 goals in 26 matches there too. Brondby wanted him to stay too. I remember looking at this when he came to us and thinking wow, what a player. So he was pretty special already! 🙃

https://www.canaries.co.uk/News/2019/june/josip-drmic-signs-for-norwich-city/ Norwich City are delighted to announce that Switzerland international striker Josip Drmic is set to join the Club on a three-year contract from July 1. Drmic, 26, has spent the last four seasons with German side Borussia Monchengladbach, having previously played in the Champions League with Bayer Leverkusen. Drmic also has 32 caps for Switzerland, representing them at two World Cups, and scored ten goals in the red and white colours. He becomes Daniel Farke’s second signing of the summer, following on from the season-long loan agreement with Manchester City for winger Patrick Roberts. Speaking to canaries.co.uk, Drmic said: “Now everything is done, I’m very happy. I had very good conversations with Stuart Webber and with the Head Coach Daniel Farke. “I was talking also to Timm Klose [teammate with Switzerland]. We had a long conversation as I had a lot of questions and he spoke very, very positively about the Club. “I’m very excited to be playing in the Premier League. I cannot wait because I’ve heard a lot of things from my colleagues in the national team who have played in the Premier League. https://www.canaries.co.uk/News/2019/june/josip-drmic-signs-for-norwich-city/

Have we not, as Englishmen, all made the same type of joke about Scotland on a regular basis over the course of our lives? Besides, it's been well established that Murray made that comment in the run up to the 2006 World Cup after Tim Henman sitting next to him took the **** because Scotland weren't there. Holding that joke against Murray 13 years later isn't really justified.

Agree I've never understood why people don't like him. Went through something traumatic as a child and came through it to become on the greatest of his generations at a highly competitive sport. That is before you factor in some of his great off court actions and generally reasonably humble personality.

Not as much of a shambles as when they appointed him manager 🤣🤣🤣

Timm earning his corn during the summer break, good man.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Prepare to be underwhelmed(at first)...but prepare to be positively surprised too, I would say!!!

The conveyor belt of fine goalkeeping talent continues at Colney with the signing of a 1 year contract for Billy Johnson. A prototype modern goalkeeper, tall and rangy with two good feet, a cool head and a willingness to engage in the play in terms of providing an out option and via good communication. In addition Johnson is intelligent and with a thoroughly decent character. Exactly the kind of player and person the new structure is designed to discover and develop. Parma

I think that in Nutty's time they were still silent movies. !!!

This was my first game as well sitting in the Barclay End at the front with my legs through the railings at the front, never be allowed today - the excitement was electric and even though I moved away from the City some 40 years ago they will never take the yellow and green out of me - 'On the Ball City'

Surfer you appear to be a complete **** and a binner!!!

I see he can't head the ball then. Looks like a poor mans Pukki. We are going down if this is the extent of our ambition. 🙂

next signing needs to be a defensive midfielder

My lawyer has advised me to refrain from answering that question.

Decent signing if on a free. Seems like a very similar signing to Rhodes in many ways - a lot of potential when younger, couple of bad injuries, got him in fairly cheap (or in Rhodes’ case a loan). From the clip Bill put up, he looks to be fairly pacey (hopefully injuries haven’t taken the edge of his pace) and with a good eye for goal. Hasn’t played a huge amount of football for the last three years and hardly any at all last year. If he can stay fit and get sharp though, I’d say he’ll be a decent back up option with potential to be more than that.

it's still June Mosso, calm yourself.

Doubt it, unless Srbeny's on his way out. No point having four mainline strikers on the books when we'll only ever be playing with one up front.

I don't think there is anyone against developing the main stand - it is the ignorance that has been shown in the idea that the club don't seem to grasp the thought that by increasing the capacity you increase the income. Thankfully that idiocy has finally been put to bed, with simple basic calculations. So don't confuse the two. However one the of the main problems with redeveloping the main stand is where do you put the 4,000 current ST holders while the working is ongoing ? Would they be happily 'scattered to the four winds', even if 4000 seats could be found. So let's not get carried away by the belief that those pointing out the problems are against redevelopment. If we could transform the main stand into a new 8000 stand and bulldoze down the hotel and put in more seats overnight I would be as pleased as punch, as I'm sure almost everyone else would. But those ideas have to be carried forward on the basis of what is possible and what is required to be done to achieve that - not some pie in the sky bollox, as much on here has been.

should fit in a treat then.

In before he gets christened Doctor Mick

Missed his last penalty though (against England), so we're not making progress in that department. Disgrace. Webber / Farke out.

And help with pronunciation (and what he can do)

Not a bad shout, that. The Geordies would love a manager who will get them playing exciting, attacking football. They were bizarrely loyal to Benitez despite his miserable defensive tactics, and after having put up with clowns like McClaren, Pardew, Kinnear and Carver in recent years I reckon he'd be an excellent appointment. And it'd royally p*ss off the WACCOE w*nkers.

Noting a couple of comments elsewhere in this thread, it has been observed that the City Stand would need to have quite a substantial amount spent on it anyway, now it is approaching 34 years of age. Webber also mentioned earlier that the return to the EPL had meant 30 capital projects had had to be undertaken to meet the latest requirements which has made a big hit on the first year's EPL monies. Although some of these works are VAR related, some will have been to do with the facilities within the City Stand for visiting teams and their hangers on (no more pink walls for instance?). Thinking positively, staying up for a few years there will come a point like in Milan, where throwing money at piece meal renovations to the City Stand makes little economic sense. Throw in the potential to increase the number of regular attending spectators and the money per head they and the current ST holders spend per game, the likelihood of a bond issue to part fund it, then potentially the only real issue is the cost of transformation and the technical difficulties (including planning permission) involved that could prevent progression of an extension to the City Stand even from a financial perspective. I'm not a pip squeaking irresponsible young'un as I've been supporting Norwich over 50 years. I just think if we are to progress as an EPL club, we need to act like one and have the courage to demonstrate it both on and off the pitch. The progress at Colney now needs to be replicated at the Carra'. So I'm pinning my flag to the masthead, given the membership furore this year, it is time to progress City Stand extension now, whatever happens on the pitch.

Quite correct but i thought Phil Neville conducted himself very well and in no way did he do anything other than express an opinion on the match incidents having been asked his views.

I’ve often thought we should have blue and white loo roll.

Agreed. In one game Cameroon managed to... - Elbow a player in the face (no red card) - Spit on an opponent (intent a little unclear) - Threaten to walk off after a correct offside decision - Claim they were being discriminated against racially - Shove the referee - Attempt to injure an opponent. Neville is well within his right to say what he did.

Absolutely, look at the huge improvement in Zimmermann, fantastic signing.

You can't win them all....doesn't detract from the generally outstanding job the recruitment team has done recently.

Perhaps some people may need the option of a two seater? Apples

I would like to see the club introducing a premium toilet facility £50 Premier level, you get individual cubicle, luxury soft loo roll and beautifully scented soap and conditioner £40 standard level, normal seat, that cheap shiny loo roll and the dog end of a bar of soap and dirty towel to dry off hand £30 economy level -a bucket

Looks like Marcel Franke’s gone, staying in Germany (presumably for a smallish fee).

Don't want to get into politics, and I didn't vote for either last time, but as a matter of accuracy the Conservatives have borrowed far, far more than Labour govts. It is one of the big myths of current politics that the Conservatives have been more fiscally prudent - that is not to say, of course that people might find other reasons to vote for them.

Get an NBC Sports account and a VPN....then you can watch every City game live.

I think Andy Murray is great. There I said it. I like tennis and I'm glad he's been able to make a comeback. Good on him. Funny how people from England want to support him when he's doing well and claim him as 'one of their own' yet when he's not playing, he's some sadsack from Scotland. Bizarre! Anyway, I prefer footie to tennis any day of the week. As an aside, I once saw Judy Murray on a flight to Edinburgh as she was sat behind me. Easyjet flight, from the horror that is Luton airport, so they do slum it sometimes too. 😉

I think a European Super league would be fantastic for British football. Without the top 6 who nearly monopolise the top places in the league, we would have a genuinely competitive league - a sort of Championship double plus. It would be the biggest domestic league in Europe.

I don't think anyone has mentioned this, so I'll put on a tin hat and throw this in. Someone pointed out, quite rightly, that finances through the gate do not come close to matching the TV revenue while we're in the Premiership, but eventually the Premiership will change its format, the Big Clubs are already having discussions with their rivals across Europe. If they decide that the time is right to set up a full time European Super League, TV revenue will drop like a stone overnight. We need to make sure that we invest for the future, how ever that evolves, by increasing our capacity and maximizing the potential that the area presents.

To add one point to the argument that increasing capacity by, say, doubling the size of the main stand would be profitable in the long run. If that is not the case, then why does the club want to increase capacity, which it plainly does, all other things being equal? There are any number of statements to that effect. The cited problem has always been the short- and medium-term problem of financing the rebuild, particularly while the mantra has been that all available money should go on the playing side. A mantra that may not be so relevant now. It doesn't make sense that the club would be bothered even to think about expansion if it didn't believe that in the long run, over decades, it would be profitable, bringing in more money than the cost of the project, just as the South Stand has done.

I don't dislike him, it's just that given option I'll always go for an Englishman over a Scotsman,

Never understood the dislike of Andy, nor his stance on being scottish. He is simply being honest and passionate in his chosen sport. Being scottish and liking it is not a crime, nor is being proud of winning for Great Britain and representing all of us in the Olympics and the Davis cup. His persona was a bit dull early in his career, but has been in the spotlight like no other british sportsmen and had to learn to be media savvy the hard way. He has matured into a superb representative for his sport and a likeable and humourous guy. If nothing else his commitment to being the best he can be is an example to any sportsman or woman. It has cost him a new hip and perhaps his mobility in the long run. One of the greatest british sportsmen of all time.

Bakelites !!!

Run a mile, bang average, certainly no better than we've got already.... It's a no from me.

Here's mine Indy... http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/923 Tommy Bryceland was my first hero.

Curtailing the playing budget is fine. Short term for long term gain. The stand will last decades.

Calling people 'mouse brain' and 'clueless numpties' isn't exactly helping your cause and you're spoiling you're a healthy debate.

I agree that the rewards for footballers are silly, but like any market it requires someone to be prepared to pay the silly amounts. "The market" has no morals - a care worker, who daily performs vital and intimate tasks for many of the most needy in society barely gets paid the living wage, whilst a top sportsperson or TV presenter earns millions a year. I don't like it, but can't blame anyone for trying to make the most of it whilst they can. In all honesty, I am more concerned about the injustice at the bottom end of the wage ladder than the top! Getting back to football, I'm glad that we have done what we can as a football club to minimise the risks of this market. The Director/ Coach model removes the perverse incentives for a manager to pay any price for an old player in the hope that it might keep him in a job for a year longer without due regard to the long-term health of the club. I'm sure that we can all identify examples of this...

Glorified ping pong. 🤣

The 'next generation is a fallacy. Why did B'mouth suddenly find a next generation...through succees, perhaps ? Why did this 'next generation' take dvantage of all the empty seats last season ? Why do the 'next generation' not take advantage of ticket availability for cup games ? Why have the binners so many empty seats, as surely they should be filled with the next generation ? The club outlied the flaws with all this guff way back, when McNally highlight all this. And anyone with the slightest idea would grasp that had we stayed down and around mid table there would be even more seats available to the 'next generation' who unsurprisingly would not be so keen to take part of the ;experience'.