Hooray!!!!!!!!!!! For those who need the official site: https://www.canaries.co.uk/News/2021/august/josh-sargent-ive-always-dreamed-of-this/
please log in to view this image Not surprised they didn't put the 3rd kit behind him too... 24 is a bit of a surprise I guess, given that was Josh Martin's number last season and he's only out on loan. 12,15,16 all available. He was 19 at Bremen (Sorensen's number here).
Difficult to know exactly because European clubs calculate fees differently, to satisfy their fans as much as possible. I think it was Michael Bailey who said it really comes down to around £8.5m, the same as we paid for Rashica when Bremen were calling it €11m (£9.4m). The recent delay has been over the sell on percentage, but we won't know that for a while. Suddenly it's all happened so quickly.
Pinkun have the sell-on at 17.5%, sounds like we split the difference there. The Pinkun article confirming the deal also says Norwich still want a CM, CB and fullback. Hugill expected to leave. Surely with the fees thrown about, we're not looking at a £10m+ signing in any of those positions now though, Billing saga must be over.
Am I the only one who thinks Hugill being edged out seems weirdly harsh? I thought he worked hard as a bit part player last year, minimal fuss, and offered a genuinely different style and threat. He played most games last season and averaged, by minutes, a goal every 170 minutes, which is roughly 1 in 2 matches.
Tzolis now not expected to play for PAOK on Thursday, and will fly to Norwich tomorrow. Greece is on the UK amber list, so he may need to quarantine for two weeks depending on his vaccination status. Presumably being 19, he's not had a chance to get two doses yet.
I've read that it's as much him wanting it as the club. He's at an age where if he's ever going to play 90 mins week in, week out, it has to be now. At Norwich he's only ever going to get 5 mins at the end of every other game. It's a shame as he seems to be a great person to have in the squad, and was a different option to have available.
I think it will be better for him, Rob. Yes, he seems to have been a real plus in the dressing room, but on the pitch he nearly always looked a bit of a square peg in a round hole. I could see him going to a club like Middlesbrough or Cardiff: the more direct style of their managers would suit him. I could see him getting lots of goals at either of those clubs.
I moved here just before the Brexit deadline. I lived in Malta long ago - I remember watching us lose at home to Reading on Maltese TV, the match which I think confirmed our relegation to the third tier - but left not long after that. I've had several incarnations on here - Lisbon, Vietnam, Singapore - but, all being well, Gozo will be the last one since I'm now retired. Do you have any links with Gozo? It seems a few people on here have.
Yeah my wife’s family have gone on holiday there for 50 years, used to have a house there. Since we’ve been together 13 years now, I’ve been virtually every year.
For this to be possible, I think Tzolis would need to be double vaccinated? Some bored fans on twitter have noted an appropriate private plane arriving at Thessaloniki Airport...
Tzolis doesn't seem bothered by waiting for official press conferences, he's confirmed to Greek press that he'll take the 18 shirt (which was Stiepermann's).
Meanwhile. perhaps our discussion of Yokuslu earlier in the window made it to the Spanish press, Pinkun have denied any Norwich interest before it even makes it to the UK transfer gutter press.
