Where EFL approval and brave new worlds collide
I wrote a piece earlier in the week on the difficult decisions awaiting Ben Knapper in the coming months. These are mainly two-fold: the need to reduce the average age of the squad while enhancing its overall quality, and, more pertinently, determining who will lead the charge from the technical area.
Both tasks are made doubly tricky due to that age-old Norwich City problem and one that, for now, will necessitate Knapper doing his job with one hand tied behind his back ? namely, a lack of money.
And so it was one of the first comments on that article that nailed the Knapper dilemma – that all of the above will be predicated in the short, medium, and long-term by the ambition (or otherwise) of one Mark Attanasio and his Norfolk Group.
As we await Attanasio?s ratification by the EFL as a fit and proper co-owner, neither he nor club are legally permitted to pass comment on the prolonged process we think will finally see him take on a 40 percent stake in our football club, but the not-knowing has gone on long enough now.
Other clubs, for reasons unknown (some have suggested it?s because they are financial basket cases and Norwich City are, apparently, not) have their takeovers ratified in a fraction of the time it?s taking the cogs to turn betwixt Carrow Road and EFL House. As I understand, the file marked ?Norwich City ? Attanasio? is still in the middle of a big pile resulting from a significant backlog.
All of which does littl...
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