Premier League season, 2021 / 2022

Yes, but I doubt if we will. The one thing I never thought Webber was is a coward. But that's how he's coming across at the moment.

 

Henry Winter will stroke his ego, promise him prominence in a "real paper", then a selective quote and clever title will cause more outrage than anything the EDP would have...

 

Aspiring to be the first coward to climb Everest perhaps?

 

There's moral cowardice and physical cowardice. They are different things. And they don't necessarily go together.

 

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Pukki matched his Premier League tally from two seasons ago with the opening goal at Wolves. It was also his 78th goal for Norwich, putting him level with Canaries legend Grant Holt

 

That sounds totally mad

 

It does, but...he's currently our 7th choice wide player?

He can't get game time ahead of Rashica, Sargent, Dowell, Placheta, Rowe or Springett. Onel would probably be ahead of him in the pecking order, given how easily Springett appears to have displaced him.

If he can't get confidence at Norwich, and even in games with nothing riding on it Smith isn't playing him, then he's not going to be trusted to start the season when a positive opening run of games is essential for getting fans back on board at Carrow Road. He might as well go back to Greece where perhaps he'll feel more at home, and see if he can't pick up where he left off.

 

It is all well and good supporters saying that we need to move players on but it is easier said than done. We were low payers of wages in the PL but, despite relegation clauses, we will be amongst the highest payers in the Championship. For a player to move on there has to be a Club who wants him and is prepared to match his earnings here. Same with loans out. We cannot now afford to subsidise the wages so again we need to find a Club who will pay most, if not all, of his wages. Sometimes supporters think that players are in it for the love of the game or Club. They are not - they are in it for the money.

 

Got to disagree a lot of player are in it for the love of the game and the money, but I agree very few are in it for the love of the club. Exceptions I can think of would be Steve Bull at Wolves, Le Tissier at Southampton and maybe Gerrard at Liverpool.

 

Tzolis has been a disaster, and it's impossible to know why.

Is the player unhappy in England? Has he lost confidence, as Smith claims? Was he over-rated? How much of a bad effect did Farke's naughty step have on him? Why has Smith seemingly made no attempt to bring him into the first team, even in the last few games when there was nothing to lose? Is that down to poor judgement of a player's potential on Smith's part or a poor attitude from Tzolis? Or is it because he is not the kind of winger Smith wants (fast, hence the repeated attempts to develop Placheta)?

When we bought him, this player was touted by many good judges as one of the most promising teenagers in Europe, with a good early record in real, first-team games, and yet we are playing under-23s instead of him.

It's puzzling and frustrating in equal measure.

 

I don't know if we can say it has been a disaster. I think the club were clear when we signed him that he was not going to make an immediate impact and he had been bought as one for the future. The problem is he cost a lot of money (for us) and he played one game in the cup scoring 2 goals, so naturally there was a clamour for him to be playing every week and expectation on him grew.

My hope is that we keep him here and he breaks through next season, I don't expect Rashica will be here so there is an opportunity to nail that LW position down

 

Why do you think Rashica may leave? He's under contract; have there been rumours about him leaving?

 

Rashica's hardly set the world on fire, yes he's had a few good games, but he's fell well short of making an overwhelming case that he's PL quality. I would like to think he stay's in the same way Buendia stayed.

 

He's one of the few players I have confidence in for next season. I hope he stays , too.

 

I don't think there have been any specific rumours about him leaving, but I would imagine he is an asset that may have retained most of his value and he strikes me as someone that won't want to be playing in the championship next year. Although i'm not sure that there will be many suitors after just 1 goal and 2 assists in the league this year. He has been very quiet in the last couple of games, and I wonder whether something has been said as he would have been the obvious choice to me to play up front with Pukki in the Wolves game, instead he remained on the bench for the whole match - I've not seen any reports of an injury.

Buendia was a bit different as he had some loyalty to us after we plucked him from the 2nd tier in Spain and was with us for 2 promotion seasons.

 

Teemu Pukki has won Norwich City’s fan-voted War Paint for Men Player of the Season award for the 2021/22 season.
The 32-year-old has been presented with the Barry Butler Memorial Trophy at Lotus Training Centre by Danny Gray, founder of War Paint for Men.
Grant Hanley came second in the vote, and Brandon Williams third.

https://www.canaries.co.uk/content/...ource=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=pots

 

I think that is a fair result, I would have gone for Pukki or Hanley

 

Pukki needs and deserves a move away from CR. He has been a very good servant to NCFC: his professional displays have shown him to be one of a few number of players who can be relied on contribute their best to the teams efforts on the pitch.