The Norwich City Chronicle
Market25 Jun 2035
Harvey Higgins puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Norwich City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market25 Jun 2035
Terms done: Sergi Oriol is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Cheltenham Town waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Norwich City is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Words at Norwich City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sol Gordon is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
Door shut on Gavin Bazunu
Norwich City asked and Stoke City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
Norwich City try to borrow Joel Ndala
Chelsea have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Tempers go at Norwich City
Simon Smith 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.
The dugout25 Jun 2035
Abdel Nouamani 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 dugout25 Jun 2035
Harvey Higgins knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Harvey Higgins trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout25 Jun 2035
Adam Sosna 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 Adam Sosna is on it.
In brief
- Market The Joe Whitworth story refuses to die
- Market No place for Adnan Castagne in the plan
- Squad David Cooper has had enough of the bench