Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brentford have kept their man, and Norwich City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
It finished 1‑0, and it was Matěj Jurásek’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Norwich City.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Matěj Jurásek was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Norwich City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Myles Lewis-Skelly provided it, and the 8.45 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Kellen Fisher has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Jeremy Monga was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Norwich City can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Norwich City has been clear about where Jack Stacey stands, which is more than many ever get.
Something was said to Wilson Isidor and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kellen Fisher has his answer from Norwich City; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Bruno Alves is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Norwich City know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Matěj Jurásek has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
13 goals in 11 games at Shrewsbury Town — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Norwich City updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Paris Maghoma and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Norwich City dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Liam Pearson could afford to be generous.