Capt_Canary
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Some I would definitely like us to sign are the following;-1. Nathanial Clyne - Best right-back outside Premier League, looks to have all the makings of a Top 4 club player, he could grow under us and we can give him the platform. May cost 3m but be worth it with plenty of re-sale value 2. Wilfried Zaha - Imagine him and Holt up front, we would have power and now pace. Ideal foil and could explode in the Premier League with the nurturing of the Messiah that is Paul Lambert3. Curtis Davies - Just turned 27 but for me he is class. One best outside Premiership, if Birmingham dont go up we have to go get him. Has pace and strong in the air. Curtis Davies and Ryan Bennett at the back, yes please!4. Henri Lansbury - Ok we have super Jonny Howson but Lansbury offers us class which sometimes we may lack. They could play together in a 4-5-1 and Id have him back every day of the week, his game is more suited to Premier League rather than the rigorous physical demands of Championship5. Jordan Rhodes - Maybe the long-term successor to Holt and is prolific, young and good in the airWe have been linked to other lower league gems such as Liam Birdcutt, Jason Pearce and Joel Ward but I believe the five above are gems waiting to be signed. The Palace two may cost near 9m for the pair but Id happily pay that! -
Personally I think Lambert needs to be shrewd in the loan market next year if we are to have sustained sucess. Brendan Rogers done excellent and salvaged Swansea''s season when he took in Gylfi Surgurdsson half-way through to add to the already impressive Steven Caulker at centre-back.
Players I would like to be linked with include Oriol Romeu, Romelu Lukaku, Josh McEachran, Emmanuel Frimpong. The first two will be particularly dependent on who Chelsea sign and after a poor season are likely to be busy in the transfer market meaning first team opportunities are few and far between.
Frimpong at Arsenal is a fantastic player and was on loan at Wolves. A combative midfielder he is exactly the player we need to break up play and also has a fantastic engine. McEchran has not had chances at Swansea but is a truly fantastic talent, think Jack Wilshere! He is a much improved Pacheco or Lansbury. Romeu is a defensive break-up player as well so him or Frimpong would be ideal for us.
I would also like us to be linked with players such as Nathanial Clyne. Repeatedly linked with bigger boys but yet to move, at £3m he would be a bargain and solve our right-back problem. A permanent move for Kyle Naughton would also be nice, he could always play at left-back.
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Think he would be a great addition and possibly attainable from Birmingham? Has got great pace and plenty of ability/ potential hence why he joined Villa for 10m a few years back? Possibly werent ready then for such a high profile move but i really rate the guyFailing that Luke Chambers at Nottingham Forest -
I am a little surprised to see such negativity about our signings so far. Are we really to start doubting a manager who has re-built a completely new team and taken us from League One mediocrity to the Premiership in two seasons?Lambert really is the ''Special One'' and I of full belief we will stay up next season. Under Worthington we nearly stayed up and that was signing complete rubbish like Helveg (past it and on a last pay day), Simon Charlton and waiting half a season for him to realise we desperately need a striker, cue Dean Ashton''s arrival which transformed our season. Blackpool nearly stayed up and that was relying on people like DJ Campbell, Charlie Adam, David Vaughan, who had been written off prior to the season as not being deemed Premiership standard.Lambert has excellent tactical awareness and backs that up with a positive, winning mentality. He will attack, attack, attack until the game has been won. Man management is up there with anyone. Has anyone ever heard a bad word said against him by a player? Look at the end of season dinner and he was even building up players like Matt Gill and praising his influence on team, even though he was a non-starter in our promotion campaign. He has left the club and yet Lambert has been nothing short of praise of him.Lambert has reacted quickly and already we have landed Morrison and Vaughan, arguably two of the Championship''s best strikers. Morrison has certain Dean Ashton characteristics and is good in the air. He will certainly sharpen up Holt''s game and make sure he is firing on all cylinders. People like Bobby Zamora came up from the lower leagues via Bristol & Brighton so there is no reason Morrison cannot perform to that level. There will have been reasons why Lambert choose not to go for Danny Graham (who has looked great this season). Maybe it was due to him only really coming on this season and he is 25 years old. Maybe his desire or work ethos is not to Lambert''s standards. He requires more than simply ability.We would all love to get carried away with big names coming to Norwich but lets take a reality check. We got relegated and were signing players like Carl Cort, Antoine Siberski, Arturo Lupoli, all massive names and they offered us nothing! People like John Hartson when he came to Norwich was a massive signing and big name but never have had the effect or desire in a Norwich shirt, wearing the yellow and green like some of our gems from the lower leagues.Lambert is trying to sign proven and tested Championship players, ones with desire, ones with hunger and people like Morrison, Snodgrass are two of the best in the league. If we go down at first attempt then we will possibly have one of the best and most stable Championship sides around and maybe we will be a yo-yo team like West Brom who proves it can be done.In Lambert we trust...... -
Forget the loans, lets take our future seriously and try to secure them on a permanent basis. We need a young and hungry team that will serve us well for the future! If they join on loan and play well their value is going to sky rocket! Forster is third choice at Newcastle and surely must be avaliable for £2m-£3m. Goalkeepers in general dont go for that much and Ruddy needs competition. Fraser has presencePacheco maybe the hardest to obtain but Liverpool have an abudance of young midfielders coming through like Spearing and Shelvey and with money likely to be spent, maybe he is obtainable. Anything under £3m would be a great addition along with same price for Lansbury.If we spent up to £10m on fees alone for these three it would be truely fantastic. Add Fabio Borini on loan from Chelsea and one or two more and we would have a young, hungry but quality side -
With Warnock and Jones moaning about our fixtures I really they get exaclty what they deserve. I didn''t see them complaining about our fixtures when we played Swansea Saturday evening, then again on Tuesday against Watford and Notingham Forest on the Friday, so 3 games in 6 days? I also didnt see Dave Jones complainin their Cardiff match against Middlesbrough is earlier therefore in pole position to apply pressure.Real reason is these two are worried by our form and dominance. They have a lot of pressure to go up and they cant stand the prospect of under-dogs Norwich going up.QPR have bent the rules and cheated no way about it. Their fixtures of Watford away and Leeds at home are not ''give me''s'' at all and if they get even 3 points deducted we could go up as Champions. If they do go up hopefully he''ll get sacked as rumoured in press. The guy is a first class prat -
£50m from increase revenues from Sky Television/gate receipts and other commerical income, as well as increased parachute payments of £40m which have seriously improved since when we went down! -
With the club £20m in debt, what should our priorities be IF we go up? Is it to back one of the best young managers in football and hope he can keep us up or do we stabilise the club and make our long-term future the main goal, while at the same time improving the team as well but not going crazy.Naturally most players contracts have clauses inserted which will increase their wages. Im sure there will be a clear out anyway come end of season, promoted or not with players like Gill, Tudor Jones, Steven Smith and certain others all leaving for pastures new and would players like Lappin and Wilbraham who have a year ago really be needed and kept on by Lambert?I can see there being a clash between board and Lambert should he not be heavily backed in the transfer market. -
Skillfull, with end product, pace and a real precense on the pitch. We could not cope with Kebe at weekend, exactly type of player we need on the flanks.
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We need a Craig Bellamy or Yakubu style Premier League striker to add goals and possibly pace up front to ease pressure on Holt and Martin. We have cover for Holt (well kind of in Wilbraham) and a Premier league scorer would be ideal foil with possibly one more midfielder? Brown for experience I guess. -
Its time for David McNally to earn is money once and for all to tell Burnley that our answer is a resounding No! Only non-footballing matters could possibly deter Lambert from leaving. Naturally being closer to his family may have some significant impact on his decision and while Burnley may have more transfer money (with parachute payments) the football club is no where near as big in terms of fanbase and potential. We are a sleeping giant and its make or break time for our season.REMEMBER NO ONE IS BIGGER THAN THE CLUB - if he leaves we wish him well and thank him for what he''s done but someone so young to have moved around like he will have done showing no loyalty will potentially be harmful. The grass is not always greener on the other side, how many managers move and get sacked within a season? Happened all too often in football the last two years.If he goes? Malky anyone? HmmmD-Day Tommorow! -
Hardly living in dreamworld, of course''s he''s going to score in this division there is hardly a massive difference in class. We are only two games into the season, the first where he was devoid of service and the Holt partnership is about to get going.
Write him off at your peril but he is 21!!!!
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The transfer of Jon Walter to Stoke for £2.75m made me realise what a crazy world we live in given that he''s a player who has been anything but prolific and soon to be 27. We have an absolute gem in Chris Martin. 2 goals in 3 games already this season and only 21, he is getting better all the time and one good season could see him linked with a number of Premiership clubs and we could well get £5m for him, a fee not often seen by us. -
Elliott Ward played 4 games for Coventry last season, he was loaned to Preston and Doncaster. Neither took him on permanately and im just looking at the simple facts. Lets not pretend he was a regular and his style did not fit, thats absolutely rubbish and you know it.
Ruddy again he is a bit of a journeyman? If he was that good surely Moyes would have kept him as back-up to Howard?
Im only starting this a bit tounge in cheek but their debuts werent the best and maybe there is a reason people did not make moves on a permanent basis. Theo didn''t get many chances, he clearly wasnt up to the job. Forster never looked that dodgy at all
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Is it not too late to get in Fraser Forster? Ruddy was truely terrible and I believe Forster would have saved at least two of their goals. He fails to inspire me and he is Theo mark II.
Also on another note, how bad was Elliott Ward? Begins to make you think why he didnt get in the Coventry team?
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Its a nice idea but i dont think it will raise enough money? You have to remember we do not have 25,000 season ticket holders, only 20,000 and some of these are concessions such as children or pensioners. If you got 20,000 people at £400 which you won''t thats only £8m so only a third of the debt? -
Its time we address the debt issue with immediate effect. We are paying over £1m a year on the loans in interest alone. If we sell Carrow Road we can get around £35m which will pay off the £23m debt and then we still have £12m in reserve which can go towards long-term team strengthening. Ok we have to lease the ground back and pay £1m a year but surely that makes sense. There can possibly be a provision in there where we can buy the ground back in the next 10 years at a cost of £40m or something and 7 years on they will have made £12m profit if we buy then with the £1m in interest and £5m in profit on the ground.
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http://fantasy.football-league.co.uk
For those fed-up with traditional premiership fantasy football, why not play fantasy football for the Championship.
I will speak to the club and see if they are able to put up some prizes like free tickets, signed posters, free ground tour etc. If interested the pin is ''3947''.Ok so its not official but its growing fast and hopefully get the mighty NCFC to endorse it.
Good luck!
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http://fantasy.football-league.co.ukFor those fed-up with traditional premiership fantasy football, why not play fantasy football for the Championship.I will speak to the club and see if they are able to put up some prizeslike free tickets, signed posters, free ground tour etc. If interestedthe pin is ''3947''.Good luck!
Obsession With Paul Rodgers
in Main Discussion - Norwich City
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Good for us but it seems incredible Paul Lambert is not even mentioned with regards to jobs such as Liverpool or Tottenham, for me he would be my first choice if I was the Liverpool chairman.
Lambert has had back-to-back promotions and secured mid-table in the Premiership on a shoe-string, whereas Swansea were more established in Championship when they went up and that was via the play-offs. Rodgers got lucky and plucked for Sigurdsson who he already knew from his Reading days but otherwise they would have finished below us.
And yes Sigurdsson is a good signing for them but he cost £6.8m and he wont improve them (they would have just got weaker had they not signed him), if anything it will be hard for him to sustain the form he showed in second half of the season.
We finished level on points and have only lost Kyle Naughton, at the moment they lost Caulker from Tottenham like us yet spent near £7m to keep the same team.