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2 days ago
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Transfer news LIVE: Man City COMPLETE £34m Cherki deal just as window slams SHUT, Chelsea's new Gittens bid REJECTED
Canary off Norwich City winger Borja Sainz could be heading to Porto. The Championship club has turned down bids from both the Portuguese club and Napoli but are holding out for a deal of about £17m. Porto are in the Club World Cup and they had been hoping to secure a deal before today's transfer deadline so Sainz could play in the United States but that transfer now looks unlikely to happen immediately. Even so, despite Napoli's offer, Porto are still favourites to sign a player who scored 19 goals for Norwich last season although 16 came in the first half of the season. Bilbao have also been interested in Sainz, 24, as he comes from the Basque region so qualifies under their strict rules of eligibility. Sainz arrived from Turkish club Giresunspor on a free transfer in 2023 and has just one year left on his contract so he will definitely leave Carrow Road. In January, Sainz was suspended for six matches after admitting to spitting at Sunderland's Chris Mepham. At the time, he was the Championship's leading scorer and was also fined £12,000 by the Football Association for the incident which took place in Norwich's 2-1 defeat at the Stadium of Light in December. Norwich striker Josh Sargent also looks set to leave although the club have had no bids. Leeds are interested with manager Daniel Farke having managed Sargent when he was Canaries manager.
BBC News
22-04-2025
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Sargent says Norwich must find 'reason to fight'
Norwich City striker Josh Sargent has urged team-mates to "find something to fight for" following a run of three successive losing 2-1 at Burnley on 11 April, City conceded eight goals in their two Easter games against Portsmouth and left the Canaries, who reached the Championship play-offs last season before being beaten by Leeds United, down in 14th to sum up the Easter weekend, Sargent told BBC Radio Norfolk it had been "embarrassing".He said: "The fans are rightly very upset, it's just nowhere near good enough from us. "It just comes down to doing basic things right, everybody working hard, showing passion - that's the bare minimum we need to do."Norwich's only win in their last 10 games came against West Brom, and losing six of them ended any hopes of again finishing in the top six.A number of players will be out of contract at the end of the season and Sargent said he hoped it was not the case that some had simply switched off with the play-offs out of US international added: "We've had poor form recently and it's just not working. All of us can feel that, nobody is walking off the pitch happy about how they've played. It's a very frustrating atmosphere."After the last game (against Portsmouth), we made it clear that we might not be fighting for anything in terms of the play-offs or relegation, but we all individually have to find something to fight for, whether that's for your family or whatever."Find something to bring out that passion on the pitch, which doesn't look like it's there from us."Head coach Johannes Hoff Thorup cited an inability to defend set-pieces and not being calm enough on the ball as two reasons for his side's decline in recent weeks."Everyone expected this would be a season where, unless we had every player available for the whole season, there would be ups and downs," the Dane said."Now we are in a moment of the season when it's much more down than up, then to go back to short-term decisions is not the right thing, then we are not building what we have been very clear we want to build."There is no short-term solution here, it's long-term and hopefully with all the decisions we have taken and are going to take we'll build an even stronger team, a team that is better suited to the way we want to play."
BBC News
07-04-2025
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Pick of the stats: Norwich City v Sunderland
Norwich City host Sunderland on Tuesday (19:45 BST) in a bid to gain some ground in the play-off race.A run of lacklustre results has left the Canaries eight points adrift of the top six, winning just one of their past six league matches (D2 L3).While, the Black Cats are as many points behind a place in the automatic promotion spots but recent form may have them feeling there's an outside chance of stealing one away after two successive league have lost three of their last four league games against Sunderland (W1), as many as their previous 11 beforehand (W5 D3 L3).After their 2-1 win in December, Sunderland could record a first league double over Norwich City since 1984-85 in the top-flight under Len home games in the Championship this season have seen 72 goals (45 for, 27 against) at an average of 3.6 per game. Only in 1962-63 (4.1) and 2018-19 (3.7) have their home matches produced a higher average over a league are unbeaten in their last 11 midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) league games (W5 D6) since a 0-1 defeat to Leicester City in March Josh Sargent has scored in both of his two league starts against Sunderland, netting in August 2022 and March 2024.
BBC News
04-04-2025
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Pick of the stats: Plymouth Argyle v Norwich City
Plymouth's battle for Championship survival continues with the visit of play-off chasing Norwich to Home Park on Saturday (15:00 BST).Basement-boys Argyle are effectively eight points from safety, such is their inferior goal difference, with seven games remaining after Derby's win over Preston on Wednesday Canaries' last-gasp win over West Brom on Saturday took them back into the top-10 and within five points of the play-off Argyle have lost five of their past six league games against Norwich, winning the other 6-2 at Home Park last won 6-1 earlier this campaign against Plymouth at Carrow Road. The last time the Canaries scored 10 league goals against an opponent in a season was against Millwall in 2014-15 (10).Across their past 13 home games in all competitions, Plymouth's only clean sheet came against current Premier League leaders Liverpool in a 1-0 FA Cup win in Norwich's last 36 Championship goals, only six have them been scored away from home. Just 26% of their goals have been scored on the road (16/61) with only Plymouth scoring a lower percentage away (8/40, 20%).Josh Sargent has scored nine goals in his past 11 Championship appearances for Norwich and overall he's scored 42 in 93 games at this level – the only Canaries player with more since 2004-05 is Teemu Pukki (65).
BBC News
31-03-2025
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Sargent not definitely leaving Norwich
Norwich City forward Josh Sargent says he is not "definitely leaving" at the end of the USA international scored a 92nd-minute winner against West Bromwich Albion on Saturday as the Canaries ended a four-game winless run to keep alive their Championship play-off hopes and then looked to calm talk of an imminent exit from Carrow Road."It's my favourite goal of the season so far - just for the timing of it against a good opponent and it's the most relief I've had scoring a goal this season for sure," Sargent told BBC Radio 25-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season and has been linked with a move to the Premier League and also a potential reunion with former Norwich boss Daniel Farke at Leeds."I have a contract here at Norwich. I'm very happy, my family is very happy here so it's no way saying I'm gone," said Sargent."I'm very happy with the manager and the team. I was just trying to say there will be options but that's not to say I'm definitely leaving - that's a decision for my family and me to make and obviously the club has to agree to me leaving in the first place."
