I wonder if Filip Benkovic might be worth a look as a CB option. 23 years old Leicester paid £13m for him in 2018 and he impressed on loan at Celtic in his first year. Since then has had some loan moves that haven't worked out for him. There was definitely a player there and at 23 there is still plenty of development, not sure whether Leicester would take a considerable loss on him though or whether he would want to move to a club where he may have to bide his time as 3rd choice.
He went to Leicester presumably knowing he was to be loaned out and hasn't seemingly had a look in, so not so far fetched. I'm sure a modest/medium loss plus add ons could persude them if they no longer think he will cut it with them. It sounds like a similar punt to us getting Raggett. The initialcosts are different but I presume he had justified a higher speculative fee, Leicester like us hoping they could step up given a loan and some training. Leicester Like us are doing well at buying relati vely cheap players and increasing their value, like us it won't work everytime. Bah!
That Pinkun article has been updated to a fairly definitive "club not interested", so presumably they've had a denial from the club.
Doubtful that a player with one of the best assists and goals ranking in Europe that has changed most of our games since he signed would be considered a hindrance . If anything you would hope VAR would be constantly used as he was being kicked all over the place in the Championship under poor referees. If Emi wants a move and we get around £40m then good luck to him but I would class him as the most gifted player I've witnessed in a Norwich shirt and he would be a massive loss . Most of our goals were made by or scored by him and Pukki and I doubt Pukki would be anywhere near as prolific without that telepathic partnership. Personally I would rather sell Max and Cantwell and try to hold onto him until January at least . The sale of those two must be about £50m which would go along way to recruiting players to strengthen our squad . The games we played without Emi we look predictable with no attacking threat .
I agree with Duncan, even though something similar happened with Maddison leaving. I don’t think Emi being marked out of the game creates the same imbalance as when Maddison was with us. Absolutely all our creativity came from Maddison and he ended up stifling others. For me if other teams want to shut down Emi, as long as he doesn’t get himself sent off out of frustration, that just creates space for our other midfielders/attackers
Absolutely agree with this. In the Maddison season, we were almost a one-man team. Everything's more fluid now and other players can bear the responsibility. Also, Emi would be hard to close down for 90 minutes because he roams all over the pitch.
ITK.....or what? A source close to the club tells me that there was a player’s lunch yesterday at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and one new face caused a minor stir. The player in question was none other than Norwich City’s Max Aarons. https://theboyhotspur.com/there-was...nce-at-the-tottenham-players-lunch-yesterday/
Starting to feel like when, rather than if......... https://dailycannon.com/2021/05/arsenal-talks-norwich-emi-buendia/
We've been blessed in recent years, Hoolahan, Maddison, Buendia. Hats off to Webber if he can keep that list going with another gem
"£9m rated" (of course that's transfermarkt even if they'll sell it as some kind of inside info...) , 3 years on his deal, from a just-relegated club, I can't see it myself. Fair play to Fulham for picking him up for £1.5m last summer though. Doesn't exactly fit the buy-low, sell-high approach we know Webber prefers. Fulham can't be in such a dire financial state that we could pick him up that easily.
I can’t believe we don’t have £9m and while that would be a lot for us, we all know we need quality at centre back. I think this has some quality to it, and if Webber is looking at making more of a statement of intent then it certainly has that ring to it, without actually breaking the bank. My only question mark would be around the comments he’s on £27kpw. If that’s true, even assuming he would get a 25% reduction for relegation, I can’t imagine he will accept much, if anything, less than that and his aspirations may be higher if his value’s gone up. That feels to far off our policy of a relatively democratic* wage bill. *Amongst the first team players, not by the standards of normality for us mere mortals
