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Norwich City boss Chris Hughton will be backed in the January sales

Norwich City club record signing Ricky van Wolfswinkel was one of a clutch of new recruits over the summer. Picture by Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd

Norwich City club record signing Ricky van Wolfswinkel was one

of a clutch of new recruits over the summer. Picture by Paul

Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd

Friday, September 13, 2013 8:52 AM

Norwich City chief executive David

McNally has pledged the club’s board is again prepared to back Chris

Hughton in the January transfer window.

The Canaries attracted seven new signings to Carrow Road

over a productive summer and McNally, who was yesterday confirmed as a

newly-elected Premier League representative to the FA Council, believes

Norwich can compete again for potential New Year targets.

“Yes

there is money available again in January,” he said. “We have some

budget preserved from the summer spending efforts. We’ll sit down with

Chris and see where, if necessary, we need to reinforce the squad. It is

always sensible to have some money available for January because things

like injuries can happen and we have seen that with Elliott Bennett

recently. He’ll be back I’m sure early in the New Year but his injury

was a blow we had not anticipated.

“We did try to bring in loan

cover to support that but who knows between now and Christmas. There are

many, many football matches and our requirements for January may change

and may evolve depending on injuries, depending on form and the

evolution of the squad. The squad has changed dramatically over a

relatively short period. I think Russ (Martin) and Wes (Hoolahan) are

the only two now who remain from that League One title-winning squad. It

shows how quickly things can change.”

McNally, speaking to the

club’s official site, is also confident City’s commitment to youth

development can bear fruit in the coming seasons following last season’s

landmark FA Youth Cup success.

“That win is a measure of the

progress people like Ricky Martin, Neil Adams and many others have

achieved,” he said. “Clearly there is a challenge doing well at academy

and Under-18 level and then progressing through to the first team in the

Premier League. The club has come a long way in a short period of time

and the Premier League is the toughest, most successful league in the

world. The move towards the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) is a

big step in the right direction.”

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It states that there will be money available, do you have evidence to prove that it wasn''t?Or, is it perhaps the case that the players just weren''t available at the right price, so we decided to keep the money in our pocket, rather than just spunk it away on an overpriced player, just for the sake of it?

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Or they will not give more money to a manager who spent millions in the summer to make us even more terrible than we were last season .Hughtons a dead man walking .

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"We’ll sit down with

Chris and see where, if necessary, we need to reinforce the squad."
Hughton DOES NOT get given millions. Christ, McNally has even bleedin said it with the comment about sitting down with the manager. The reality is the scouts bring in reports to the board, as does the manager and coaches regarding current players.The board makes the decisions from there and McNally does the negotiations.What on earth planet are you on if you think that the club simply hands over an amount of money and says there you go ?And do you really think that the club would risk their PL status because they did not trust the manager, if that was the case why is he still here ?

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[quote user="CanaryOne"]Or they will not give more money to a manager who spent millions in the summer to make us even more terrible than we were last season .Hughtons a dead man walking .[/quote]Ah right, so you have jumped to your conclusion and you won''t be swayed?Righty ho[Y]

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How can you be absolutely certain about that? Wenger was given a lot of money to spend by the board at Arsenal but opted not to spend it in January because he didn''t feel the right player was available at the right price.

While Hughton obviously wouldn''t have had the warchest available to him that Wenger did, if the board had lost faith in Hughton to the extent which you say then he would have been sacked. The board would not have gambled seeing out the rest of the season with a person that they had absolutely no faith in.

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