Extract from The Guardian

[Chelmsford Canary 0]

Norwich City

Managerial situation Paul Lambert''s recent media appearances have featured a frosty Scot having to take questions about a possible move to Aston Villa. His responses suggest the answer is yes, though this may depend on whether Roberto Martínez lands the Liverpool job.

Money to spend Norwich''s relative lack of cash means whoever is manager may have £10m-£15m in total. Most of the Canaries'' business will consist of removing players to get fresh faces in, plus free transfers and clever loan signings.

What they need A 17‑goal striker – if Grant Holt gets his transfer out of the club – plus a replacement for fellow forward Aaron Wilbraham. Possibly a keeper, depending on how John Ruddy''s recovery from his broken finger, plus two defenders as Zak Whitebread has left and Adam Drury is out of contract and may be moved on.

What they will get All the above apart from a striker with Holt''s number of goals as they are scarce on the kind of money Norwich have.

Targets Jordan Rhodes (Huddersfield), Titus Bramble (Sunderland), Leroy Lita (Swansea), Ricardo Rocha (Portsmouth), David Stockdale (Fulham), Dedryck Boyata (Manchester City).

[Guest]

Typical well informed Guardian journalism then.

[Jim Smith 2,349]

Staggering. Could they have come up with a more random list of made up targets than that?

[Cantiaci Canary 560]

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Norwich City

Managerial situation Paul Lambert''s recent media appearances have featured a frosty Scot having to take questions about a possible move to Aston Villa. His responses suggest the answer is yes, though this may depend on whether Roberto Martínez lands the Liverpool job.

Money to spend Norwich''s relative lack of cash means whoever is manager may have £10m-£15m in total. Most of the Canaries'' business will consist of removing players to get fresh faces in, plus free transfers and clever loan signings.

What they need A 17‑goal striker – if Grant Holt gets his transfer out of the club – plus a replacement for fellow forward Aaron Wilbraham. Possibly a keeper, depending on how John Ruddy''s recovery from his broken finger, plus two defenders as Zak Whitebread has left and Adam Drury is out of contract and may be moved on.

What they will get All the above apart from a striker with Holt''s number of goals as they are scarce on the kind of money Norwich have.

Targets Jordan Rhodes (Huddersfield), Titus Bramble (Sunderland), Leroy Lita (Swansea), Ricardo Rocha (Portsmouth), David Stockdale (Fulham), Dedryck Boyata (Manchester City).

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I assume they they are picking names out of a hat?

[Making Plans 942]

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Norwich City

Managerial situation Paul Lambert''s recent media appearances have featured a frosty Scot having to take questions about a possible move to Aston Villa. His responses suggest the answer is yes

Targets Titus Bramble (Sunderland)

[/quote]Oh really ??????????

[Indy_Bones 442]

[quote user="Chelmsford Canary"]Targets Jordan Rhodes (Huddersfield), Titus Bramble (Sunderland), Leroy Lita (Swansea), Ricardo Rocha (Portsmouth), David Stockdale (Fulham), Dedryck Boyata (Manchester City).[/quote]Hahahahahahahahahahaha.What absolute garbage journalism.Rhodes is the only one of those players who we may be considering, and his price may be inflated too much to make it happen.Stockdale and Boyata are both decent, but not really any better than what we already have.As for Titus Bramble, Ricardo Rocha and Leroy Lita - was the guy on something when he wrote this???

[morty 0]

A keeper depending on Ruddy''s recovery?He broke a finger, not a leg.Lol.

[Bovril 221]

Titus Bramble

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[Bovril 221]

That picture come up when previewing the post, not quite sure why it''s not displaying.

[CanaryOne 0]

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Norwich City

Managerial situation Paul Lambert''s recent media appearances have featured a frosty Scot having to take questions about a possible move to Aston Villa. His responses suggest the answer is yes

Targets Titus Bramble (Sunderland)

[/quote]Oh really ??????????[/quote]Actually theres a reporter for the Mirror(cannot think of his name) who is supposedly a City fan and he always writes that if offered the job Lambert would be very interested , makes you wonder what leads them to think this .Guess we will have to wait for the Liverpool job to get sorted then the real action will start when Villa know whos left to go for .

[star_manic 0]

that has to be one of the most incompetent pieces of journalism that i have ever read. talk about science fiction. at least the spelling appeared half decent, but just what planet is this guy on, or more likely, what drinking hole is he making this up in.[:@]

[GJP 79]

Although that piece is a load of drivel I would actually be quite happy with signing Titus Bramble (as long as he''s not in prison, of course).

[SwindonCanary 455]

Managerial situation -- Lambert is staying !Money to spend -- £10m-£15m in total. Ya that''s about right.What they need -- Just a few more to help out the guys we''ve already got, as has already been stated by Lambert.What they will get -- Who knows ? management team have named their targets, now it''s up to McNally and team to try and get ''em.Targets -- Think there maybe a few surprises here.

[GMF 757]

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Norwich City

Managerial situation Paul Lambert''s recent media appearances have featured a frosty Scot having to take questions about a possible move to Aston Villa. His responses suggest the answer is yes

Targets Titus Bramble (Sunderland)

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Oh really ??????????
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I think Titus Bramble has other things on his mind at the moment, rather than finding a new football club!

[Orford65 0]

I assume the Guardian are now employing Mystic Meg in the role of their in-depth football analyst.What a joke!

[Shyster 0]

Typical Guardianista fabrication just like its politics.

[pete_norw 0]

[quote user="Shyster"]Typical Guardianista fabrication just like its politics.
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And get paid a wage for taking crap off Rumour sites, wonder if they have any jobs going?.

[Chelmsford Canary 0]

Didn''t respond to OP.

Titus Bramble? If any club is stupid enough to sign that useless, ex $cummer, crimanal, etc etc.

They deserve to be relegated

[AndyCanary 0]

[quote user="morty"]A keeper depending on Ruddy''s recovery?He broke a finger, not a leg.Lol.[/quote]Exactly! I read a quote from Hodgson saying that he wasn''t even sure whether he was going to drop Ruddy because of the break. Making it sound like it was more a ''safer than sorry'' approach to drop him.

[Syteanric 1]

"the answer is yes".. is it though.. really?i doubt the guardian even know where Norwich is on a map...

[pete 320]

We spent around £12m last season, if the same this year plus £8m from 12th position promised to PL.  I suspect PL will be given around £20m which is probably more than the new Villa manager will get who will not be PL.