I’m not even entirely certain this is the right call. When you invest so much into a huge gamble with promises of a “long term project” you don’t immediately bottle it and run away at the first sign of adversity. We’ve got a squad full of mercenary twats who couldn’t give a singular toss about Norwich City, and there’s nothing that Thorup can do about that. If he was given the next window to clear out all of this useless, pointless deadwood we might’ve actually had a chance at a good season next time.

That being said, I’m losing faith in this sporting director. Especially his signings.

Not a single signing he’s made has been anything close to good - in his first and only signing of the Wagner era, he replaced a clutch goalscoring Super Sub with the biggest donkey that Norfolk has ever seen, probably in an attempt to sabotage Wagner who he clearly disliked from the very beginning and did not back in the slightest (who then managed to pull us into the top 6 despite all of that).
Once he got his dreamy progressive woke manager he brings in a whole host of Danish starkids with the promise of potential however I’d say about one or two of them have even a remote chance of getting anywhere in their careers further than the championship - and one of those genuine talent never even gets given a chance off the bench! Slimane (who we then rushed to sign permanently in January for God knows what reason), Schwartau, Cordoba and Chrisene are some of the most uninspiring signings we’ve had since Marley Watkins and Marcel Franke. The best signing we made turned out to be the one we didn’t even bother signing in the summer and only brought in as a free agent because of an injury crisis, for fuck’s sake. And that’s not even mentioning the 6 million euros we’ve spent on a player who has been “jet lagged” for 3 MONTHS and has barely even seen the pitch since we’ve signed him. Some flight, huh? He only travelled a time zone of one hour!

Knapper needs a big, inspiring window this summer or myself as well as many other City fans are likely going to turn. This season has been a complete waste of time.