Five Year Plans, Webber’s Mistakes and Looking Forward
If you mention the words ?five-year plan? to many of the faithful around Carrow Road they will either laugh at you, scoff at you, or insult you. The question I ask is, why"
One of the founding fathers of the USA, Benjamin Franklin, is famous for his quote: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail“.
Basketball player Yogi Berra said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up someplace else“.
Alexander Graham Bell, creator of the telephone, said, “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success“.
Norwich City had a five-year plan to get to the Premier League and stay there. That plan was, I believe, to get promoted at the end of the third season once they had a good strong and reasonably young squad and spend season four in the Prem, using the additional cash flow from that season to boost the squad for season five which would have been 2021-22. This plan started after the arrival of Stuart Webber towards the end of the 2017 season, so commenced it in 2017-18.
The plan hit its first problem when they built the squad (arguably) too strong and got promoted one season too early with a squad that needed three or four more players for which they did not have the cash, and couldn’t cope with the step up.
Unfortunately, if you walk the league, you cannot tell the EFL that you are sorry but you do not want to get promoted because you are not ready to go up
This led to two major is...
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