Patience, scouting and the system: the story behind Norwich’s promotion


Sticking with Daniel Farke last summer,shrewd signings and players buying into the ideas of a collective spirit have lifted the Canaries into the top flight

It was just after a 3-0 home defeat that people at Norwich started to think they were on the right track. The Canaries had won just one of their first five games, James Maddison and Josh Murphy had been sold in the summer and most of the arrivals were relative unknowns. After a disappointing 14th-place finish last season, the waning faith from the stands in manager Daniel Farke was understandable.

But afterwards a few Norwich players commented that for the first 30 minutes or so of that game things clicked, and they realised they could play the sort of football that Farke had been talking about since his appointment the previous summer.

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