City played well, stood up to the battle, were easy on the eye and looked solid for long periods, but narrowly lost thanks to a bit of bad luck and some questionable defending. Sound familiar? The venue was different, the personnel slightly adjusted (Daniel Farke made four changes to his starting eleven from the 2-1 […]
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Another Emirates disappointment as City succumb to the inevitable messy goal
So that’s it. The extended pre-season is over. It’s down to the real games next week against Watford. Daniel Farke has a history of transformation in the post-international break period. Perhaps it was expecting a bit much for him to pull off the same trick this time, particularly with several players away on extended international duty […]
ARSENAL PREVIEW: A classic ‘along come Norwich’ moment? Or an opportunity?
The last time Norwich City went to the Emirates they were soundly beaten by a superior Arsenal team backed up by a superior Arsenal squad and the London club had an exciting young coach in Mikel Arteta. The Gunners were trending upwards and City clearly downwards as they meekly surrendered their Premier League status. Taking […]
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Winning big games: back in the day when City went toe-to-toe with the champions
I pity the podcast generation, all-knowing and fresh-faced, blinking blindly in the Premier League glare. I do. Sadly they seem to regard the world prior to 2014 as empty of integrity, truth and joy, and of no possible use to anyone with a phone surgically attached to their person. A black mirror indeed, and certainly […]
The healthy competition of Sargent and Idah can only be a good thing for Pukki
After a slow start and the arrival of £9million competition, Teemu Pukki had suffered a good deal of criticism, but scoring Norwich City’s first Premier League goal of the season has reminded fans of the Finn’s sensational record at the club. In Iwan Roberts’ column for the Eastern Daily Press, the Norwich City legend stated that […]
Seat belts on folks, it’s a bumpy ride as we revisit the Canary Nation of September 1999
I was rooting through the oubliette of my desk draws [the bottom one with heavy stuff like property deeds and old coins in it] the other day and discovered something I thought I had disposed of ages ago when I eBayed all my old programmes and sold them to a newsagent in Costessey, together with the egg […]
Webber… his finest hand of poker… Normann & Kabak… and some Emirates hope
International breaks eh. Don’t you just love them? They never come at a good time, but those that come immediately after your club has signed what you hope will be two key players are especially annoying. Particularly when said players have literally a few hours at the club before they have to jet off and […]
Norwich to finish 11th… if, as some believe, the only metric worth its salt is net spend
Upon the closure of the transfer windows, every pundit, media outlet and shock-jock talk-radio station took it upon themselves to try and establish who ‘won’ the transfer window. As ever, despite City spending more than they have ever done in any transfer window in history and having ticked every box going (at least in Norwich […]
The window that was. Martin’s posse take a look at the wonderful work of Webber
So that transfer window has finally closed and I think we must surely agree that it has been the finest one in terms of achievement by Norwich City yet. I reckon it is and the best of fair play to Stuart Webber and the recruitment team. But do the posse agree? The only way to […]
Grading Norwich City’s transfer window: Future heroes or … not?
It’s safe to say that this summer was a crucial one for Norwich City. Armed with comfortably his largest-ever budget, sporting director Stuart Webber set about transforming a Championship winning squad missing its most important player into a group capable of Premier League survival. So, how successful as he been? We set about deciding with […]
VIDEO: Welcome aboard Mathias Normann and Ozan Kabak | Norwich Talk
The lads have been busy over the last couple of days, thanks to a certain Stuart Webber. City’s sporting director stayed true to his word and delivered Daniel Farke with what we all hope will be the final two pieces of the survival jigsaw and so gave the NT boys plenty to chew over. As […]
Norwich closing in on Kabak signing
City are closing on the signing of Schalke centre-back Ozan Kabak on an initial loan, MyFootballWriter understands. They will have an option to turn the deal permanent in the summer of 2022 if the deal goes through, which the Canaries are confident of. Kabak spent the second half of the 2020/21 season on loan at Liverpool […]
City worth a draw but muck happens. The season now starts for real at the Emirates
Who’d have thought it? As we go into the international break we are above Arsenal in the Premier League table. Oh joy, you might think, until you actually take a quick shufti at said, sad table. And who do we face after the break? Arsenal at the Emirates of course. But with all thoughts of […]
The Canaries finally tick their top priority transfer box – Mathias Normann is the man
Heading into the 2021 summer transfer window Norwich City had one top priority: find a defensive midfielder to replace Oliver Skipp. After a long and arduous process, they have their man. In Mathias Normann, brought in from Russian side FC Rostov for a loan fee that could turn into a club record permanent deal if […]
Sloppy defending (again)… Skipp-shaped holes… VAR agony… and a returning hero?
As Todd Cantwell said afterwards, it would have been disappointing to have come away with a point but, of course, we would definitely have taken it. To have ended up with nothing was a proper blow to the nether regions. The longer we go without those first points, or point, on the board the more […]
MATCH REPORT: Pukki off the mark but two defensive ricks and City lose again
So finally a chance to watch a match ‘live’. I was working on opening day, was half comatose with jet lag for the Man City game although, given the result, that seems to have been an advantage. That loss will be no more relevant to the Canaries’ final position than the subsequent cup win against Bournemouth. […]
Could Farke return to a 4-2-3-1 for Leicester visit?
The Foxes’ weaknesses could combine with the Canaries’ stellar midweek to induce a return of the tried and tested Farke formula. While new faces, kit suppliers and sponsors have given Carrow Road a changed look this season, Daniel Farke’s switch from a 4-2-3-1 to a flat 4-3-3 has been the most noticeable tactical change. After […]
VIDEO: ‘CARVALHO & THE CDM DEBATE!’ NT Podcast #57 | Norwich Talk
The lads are back for some more transfer rumour goodness. With the window closing and City still in the market for two very important positions (centre-back and defensive midfield) the transfer speculation is rife. William Carvalho (on the day of recording – 26/8/21) was the latest name to be tipped with a move to Norwich […]
LEICESTER PREVIEW: Our pre-season is over, let’s start collecting some points.
Saturday 5.00 pm: “Jesus, that defending… and still no defensive midfielder in sight… it’s eerily reminiscent of the last ten games of 19/20… I’m getting nervous”. Monday 12:00 pm: “Brandon Williams has been confirmed. He might be more needed than we thought after Saturday. Good signing that”. Monday 10:00 pm: “Leicester took a pasting and […]