Ben Tree

Striker - Norwich City U18
17 Aug 2027
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Marked for Ben Tree

32 Edition

The Norwich City Chronicle

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 Mar 2027

A one-man rearguard from Vladan Kovačević

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings8 Mar 2027

Ayyoub Bouaddi, 19, steals the show — 7.92

Marked 7.92 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market8 Mar 2027

Ken Aboh has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Norwich City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Real improvement from Ben Tree at Norwich City

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ben Tree is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match2 Mar 2027

Middlesbrough take the points off Norwich City

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Pelle Mattsson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pelle Mattsson, and the manager let it.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Ante Crnac wants to go home

“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.

Squad8 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Norwich City

Anas Zniti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

Anthony Musaba knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Norwich City, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Norwich City Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match6 Feb 2027

Anthony Musaba breaks Stoke City hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Anthony Musaba scored in the 86th minute, Stoke City had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Norwich City took the lot.

Market8 Feb 2027

Harry Darling turns Milton Keynes Dons down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market8 Feb 2027

Darlin Yongwa hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Norwich City can pretend not to have heard.

Market8 Feb 2027

Norwich City turn down Bournemouth for Ben Chrisene

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

The paperwork begins on André

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Norwich City have done the hard part with Wolverhampton, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Match6 Feb 2027

Norwich City end the wait against Stoke City

It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

Manchester City tell Norwich City: Yasin Ayari is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match6 Feb 2027

Norwich City get the job done against Stoke City

A 1‑0 win over Stoke City, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Match2 Feb 2027

A bad afternoon for Norwich City against Watford

0‑1 to Watford, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

23 Edition

The Norwich City Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Jan 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Henry Bullen

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Norwich City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market4 Jan 2027

Amankwah Forson asks to leave Norwich City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Ali Ahmed was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Ben Tree is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Norwich City rebuffed over Bosun Lawal

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stoke City have kept their man, and Norwich City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match29 Dec 2026

Preston take the points off Norwich City

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market4 Jan 2027

Ali Ahmed attracts admirers

The name of Ali Ahmed has come up in conversations Norwich City were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The terraces4 Jan 2027

The crowd has taken to Jovon Makama

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match2 Jan 2027

Norwich City get the job done against Oxford United

A 1‑0 win over Oxford United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

16 Edition

The Norwich City Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Norwich City

Mathias Kvistgaarden and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Ben Tree signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ben Tree commits to Norwich City for another 3 years.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

The leaders are next for Norwich City

Ipswich Town top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Harry Darling

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Harry Darling, and the manager let it.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Darlin Yongwa gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Darlin Yongwa is on it.

Market16 Nov 2026

Róbert Boženík linked with a move away

The name of Róbert Boženík keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Norwich City say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch16 Nov 2026

Nobody is scoring past Louie Moulden at Cambridge United

6 shut-outs in 11 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Louie Moulden has been having a lot of them.

Loan watch16 Nov 2026

Elliot Myles keeps scoring at Newport County

10 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Mohamed Touré wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Norwich City will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

9 Edition

The Norwich City Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Vintage Kenny McLean — 8.12

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.12, and nobody on the pitch better.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Norwich City — 7.77

1 for Alhassan Yusuf, marked 7.77, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The step up is real for Ben Tree

At 17 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.

Match22 Sep 2026

A bad afternoon for Norwich City against Wrexham

1‑2 to Wrexham, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match26 Sep 2026

Norwich City get the job done against Watford

A 2‑0 win over Watford, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Mathias Kvistgaarden in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

8 new faces, and Norwich City are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Paris Maghoma gets it from the manager

“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 dugout28 Sep 2026

A satisfied Joseph Brown

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Joseph Brown could afford to be generous.

In brief