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Underrated Delia Overrated Attanasio Sorensen & McCallum both underrated, both have to be considered underused. Both far better than some fans credit them.

Don’t worry City 1st will be along soon to start trying to pick a fight! A very good thread and lots of open thoughts, looks like Knapper might have a busy summer!

Agree on all that, Aboh must be persuaded by Knapper to stay, he’s a Knapper type player, hopefully he will be given assurances to get him to stay! McCallum is a strange one, I actually think he makes us a better team as he’s got a great delivery and scores, his attacking style pushed the opposition back! I’d be looking to sign him to a longer term contract, we're short of options there if Giannoulis goes.

Be interesting if they did how the top teams and Premier League would react? Will there be big wave of top flight lawyers employed to wrap up any deals which were not liked!

Indeed! This daft notion that a takeover would lead to massive success and a stay in the top flight is just not going to happen because of MA. There’s a lot of clubs in this division and below who have rich owners but can’t just throw millions at it! There’s too many barriers for that to lead to success. A structured and successful way forwards is to build on our academy and not sell the best players to survive, which is going to be hard to do as we’re still a selling club to those with big attraction to top flight football. The reality is that until things change in the top leagues across Europe and a set structure accepted to fixed wage caps and squad numbers levelling the field slightly it’s never going to get competitive for all clubs. Of course money is king in sport and top clubs will always be top clubs because they do have history and that alone will attract the best, the rest will need to find clubs if player numbers over the age of 23 are limited to each squad each year!

Interesting reading, I guess it really depends on who comes in should we not go up! I’d think both Sorensen & McCallum will be staying, the rest are higher wages and will be released to free up money! There are so many variables at this time but suffice to say no promotion might see an acceleration of MA full takeover and Knapper ring the changes with Cuesta possibly coming in! Might be a lot of young loan players next year, probably lots of academy players stepping up too, I just don’t see us spending much! Another pivotal summer coming up, but we are short of numbers at the squad come this summer!

Is it 40% yet? I thought it’s still going through the EFL review?

We’ll need Warner & Tomkinson if we stay in this league! (Highly Likely) especially with Knapper already referencing academy players and bringing down the average age of this squad! Great to see all our youngsters getting lots of game time and experience ready for next year. With Gibson & Batth out of contract it’s good to see our replacements actually doing a good job. Save on wages and start our development, but will it be under Wagner or Cuesta?

Not unless you can come up with 200 million to buy an entire back line, holding midfielder and another decent striker! That’s just the starting 11! We really could do with promotion though, give it a good go and take the money. But this would also mean we get a better chance of keep Sargent, Sara & Rowe! The reality is we have the worst set of centre backs ever, can anyone really see Gibson, Duffy, Hanley & Batth in the premier league! Of course we all would take the money and another season in the top flight especially at the expense of the Binners, but we would struggle as always!

Some very good points, and how I felt back in 2016 when gave it all in after having a season ticket for god knows how many years. Now when I do go back to FCR to watch I enjoy it again! It’s a match day experience so for me less is more! Agree with Til, What’s up with City 1st and his multiple accounts! Why he insists on trying to get a reaction on every thread, sad!

Yeh but Barnes was outstanding wasn’t he! Give the lad a chance Hogs!

Good luck all pups.. For me Slavia Prague v Teplice - Home win. For Norwich Sargent at the double! OTBC.

Utterly crap defending again! Stacey just watching his man smash it in!

Even with that sending off we just can’t defend, all of them switch off! Is it an age thing? Is it that reactions are slower with the older defenders? Poor really poor we need a massive revamp at the back regardless of who comes in and which division we’re in!

Nah both were down to really poor defending watching them back! We just can’t defend when the pressure is on!

Certainly not a red card, utterly stupid by the ref and it should be noted that for a red the ref must see and be in no doubt! That said, Barnes got lucky and we just can’t defend, McLean isn’t as effective in midfield as he is when he plays at the back. Really poor defending for both goals!

Gordon he’s a new signing, 35 year old on a free! You can clearly hear his name mentioned every game! “Gordon Bennet not him again”

No thanks!

No he’s due a go in goal if Gunn gets injured! Do you think he’s in line to take over from Wagner? McLean as our next head coach? He’s got the pointy fingers to do it well!

No probably not, but he’s a quality striker in the championship and anyone scoring pretty much a goal a game in terms of minutes played will be in big demand! Not to mention his work rate is exceptional.

What are you on about? Had a Sunday beer or two?

We don’t have new ownership yet young man, we’re not likely to in the short term, so we are still that self funding club. Of course I’m with you I’d love to move on those not good enough and build on our best players! Reality is we’re Norwich City and our players have a set price and an ambition to play at the highest level, if that’s not with us then they will move on!

Of course, but as we know from Buendia, Maddison and a few others, it’s not about wanting to sell but the requirement to sell!

Two things, Sargent is a pro, in his prime and will be itching to play the highest level! So if a premier club comes in he will ask to leave! The club has a debt this year and will need to align again for a season in the championship, FFP means we will need to balance the books! As much as none of us like losing the best players unfortunately it’s the nature of the beast! Rowe is injured and will no doubt stay, but he’s into his final year next year so a long term contract needs to sorted. Same for Sara as above in his prime like Sargent.

We wouldn’t risk it, Todd was worth a fortune and in hindsight should of sold him before he started to cause issues! The club will have learnt that if a players head gets turned then unfortunately it’s a good time to maximise profit!