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Summer Window 2026 - Rumours and Discussion
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We weren’t an established championship team so we couldn’t buy the best league 1 players. They went to established championship teams instead. If we stay up we’ve got more chance this summer, but the more years we are at this level the better the player we will be able to attract whether that’s from league 1, championship or abroadSword65pf said:
But we didn’t, do the profile of players you mention want to play for jones?, are we as a club prepared to pay for those players? Many of us were satisfied with the punts we took this season from league 1, went a bit tits up.killerandflash said:
Nothing wrong with signing the right L1 players. The right players, and ones that fit your system, rather than just hoovering up players because their numbers look good.Sword65pf said:
Shouldn’t we learn our lesson with signing league 1 top players??killerandflash said:If we stay up, Lewis Wing is clearly one of the best attacking midfielders in L1. 11 goals and 11 assists in an unexceptional Reading team are very good numbers. Good at set pieces, and he's played every game, and nearly every minute.
Perhaps we could offer them Knibbs back as part of the deal...
Makama and Galbriath stepped up successfully, Burrell was having a great season at QPR before his injury.
Millwall signed Azeez from Reading in 2024, he's now one of the best players in the Championship.4 -
There can't be many more players available next season that played for NJ with Luton 😆3
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Should we stay up, we need to become very attractive.. and fast otherwise after next season we may become very unattractive again!!, lessons need to be taken from this season, the end to our season has been fucking awful.NabySarr said:
We weren’t an established championship team so we couldn’t buy the best league 1 players. They went to established championship teams instead. If we stay up we’ve got more chance this summer, but the more years we are at this level the better the player we will be able to attract whether that’s from league 1, championship or abroadSword65pf said:
But we didn’t, do the profile of players you mention want to play for jones?, are we as a club prepared to pay for those players? Many of us were satisfied with the punts we took this season from league 1, went a bit tits up.killerandflash said:
Nothing wrong with signing the right L1 players. The right players, and ones that fit your system, rather than just hoovering up players because their numbers look good.Sword65pf said:
Shouldn’t we learn our lesson with signing league 1 top players??killerandflash said:If we stay up, Lewis Wing is clearly one of the best attacking midfielders in L1. 11 goals and 11 assists in an unexceptional Reading team are very good numbers. Good at set pieces, and he's played every game, and nearly every minute.
Perhaps we could offer them Knibbs back as part of the deal...
Makama and Galbriath stepped up successfully, Burrell was having a great season at QPR before his injury.
Millwall signed Azeez from Reading in 2024, he's now one of the best players in the Championship.1 -
Wage constraints would have been a major factor for us last summer, whilst being most people's favourites for relegation would hardly have helped make us an attractive proposition. Going up with Wrexham and Birmingham also created difficulties, given that their level of spending further distorted an already difficult market.
In those circumstances, signing League 1 players with the ability and potential to step up was a reasonable and pragmatic policy - the problem is that the ones we acquired don't fit the bill, both in terms of the quality required at Championship level and fitting into Nathan Jones' particular style of football. We reportedly spent around £8 million on Kelman, Olaofe, Apter and Knibbs and, if we're honest with ourselves, each of those signings has proved a big disappointment and not up to the required level. I'd love to be proved wrong but I don't buy Nathan's guff about them being 3 and 4 year 'projects'; the reality is that if we could recoup a chunk of what we paid for any of them, we'd happily unload them.
Assuming we do stay up, a major overhaul of the squad will be required. That is quite a task and I'm afraid the difficulties will be exacerbated by both a 21st finish this season, which will make us one of the bookies' favourites for relegation, and our reputation as a kick and rush team.12 -
The style of football will definitely put off "classy" midfielders who've seen how direct we are. And indeed with potential loan players, their parent clubs, who if they play more of a passing style will want a loan club to play in a similar way.Blucher said:Wage constraints would have been a major factor for us last summer, whilst being most people's favourites for relegation would hardly have helped make us an attractive proposition. Going up with Wrexham and Birmingham also created difficulties, given that their level of spending further distorted an already difficult market.
In those circumstances, signing League 1 players with the ability and potential to step up was a reasonable and pragmatic policy - the problem is that the ones we acquired don't fit the bill, both in terms of the quality required at Championship level and fitting into Nathan Jones' particular style of football. We reportedly spent around £8 million on Kelman, Olaofe, Apter and Knibbs and, if we're honest with ourselves, each of those signings has proved a big disappointment and not up to the required level. I'd love to be proved wrong but I don't buy Nathan's guff about them being 3 and 4 year 'projects'; the reality is that if we could recoup a chunk of what we paid for any of them, we'd happily unload them.
Assuming we do stay up, a major overhaul of the squad will be required. That is quite a task and I'm afraid the difficulties will be exacerbated by both a 21st finish this season, which will make us one of the bookies' favourites for relagation, and our reputation as a kick and rush team.
Would Chelsea loan the 2026 equivalent of 2019's Conor Gallagher to us. I doubt it...4 -
No but we might get the equivalent of Bielik, or Cullenkillerandflash said:
The style of football will definitely put off "classy" midfielders who've seen how direct we are. And indeed with potential loan players, their parent clubs, who if they play more of a passing style will want a loan club to play in a similar way.Blucher said:Wage constraints would have been a major factor for us last summer, whilst being most people's favourites for relegation would hardly have helped make us an attractive proposition. Going up with Wrexham and Birmingham also created difficulties, given that their level of spending further distorted an already difficult market.
In those circumstances, signing League 1 players with the ability and potential to step up was a reasonable and pragmatic policy - the problem is that the ones we acquired don't fit the bill, both in terms of the quality required at Championship level and fitting into Nathan Jones' particular style of football. We reportedly spent around £8 million on Kelman, Olaofe, Apter and Knibbs and, if we're honest with ourselves, each of those signings has proved a big disappointment and not up to the required level. I'd love to be proved wrong but I don't buy Nathan's guff about them being 3 and 4 year 'projects'; the reality is that if we could recoup a chunk of what we paid for any of them, we'd happily unload them.
Assuming we do stay up, a major overhaul of the squad will be required. That is quite a task and I'm afraid the difficulties will be exacerbated by both a 21st finish this season, which will make us one of the bookies' favourites for relagation, and our reputation as a kick and rush team.
Would Chelsea loan the 2026 equivalent of 2019's Conor Gallagher to us. I doubt it...1 -
Why wouldn’t Chelsea loan us a player?I don’t know who the Chelsea loan manager is but surely he is a football person and understands this season is survival at all costs, next year we can hopefully attract better players and be more attacking3
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Is this even relevant when Nathan Jones doesn’t do prem youngsters on loankillerandflash said:
The style of football will definitely put off "classy" midfielders who've seen how direct we are. And indeed with potential loan players, their parent clubs, who if they play more of a passing style will want a loan club to play in a similar way.Blucher said:Wage constraints would have been a major factor for us last summer, whilst being most people's favourites for relegation would hardly have helped make us an attractive proposition. Going up with Wrexham and Birmingham also created difficulties, given that their level of spending further distorted an already difficult market.
In those circumstances, signing League 1 players with the ability and potential to step up was a reasonable and pragmatic policy - the problem is that the ones we acquired don't fit the bill, both in terms of the quality required at Championship level and fitting into Nathan Jones' particular style of football. We reportedly spent around £8 million on Kelman, Olaofe, Apter and Knibbs and, if we're honest with ourselves, each of those signings has proved a big disappointment and not up to the required level. I'd love to be proved wrong but I don't buy Nathan's guff about them being 3 and 4 year 'projects'; the reality is that if we could recoup a chunk of what we paid for any of them, we'd happily unload them.
Assuming we do stay up, a major overhaul of the squad will be required. That is quite a task and I'm afraid the difficulties will be exacerbated by both a 21st finish this season, which will make us one of the bookies' favourites for relagation, and our reputation as a kick and rush team.
Would Chelsea loan the 2026 equivalent of 2019's Conor Gallagher to us. I doubt it...1 -
Chambers????4
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that’s completely different when it was the January window and we were absolutely desperate for a LWB. At no point in that last two summer windows has Jones gone my starter for this position is going to be a prem youngster. Our loan signings tend to be people to plug gaps or experienced older players you can potentially make permanentBournesnr said:Chambers????2 -
The Arsenal GK that went to La Liga instead?Crispywood said:
that’s completely different when it was the January window and we were absolutely desperate for a LWB. At no point in that last two summer windows has Jones gone my starter for this position is going to be a prem youngster. Our loan signings tend to be people to plug gaps or experienced older players you can potentially make permanentBournesnr said:Chambers????2 -
Your earlier statement said 'Is this even relevant when Nathan Jones doesn’t do prem youngsters on loan'.Crispywood said:
that’s completely different when it was the January window and we were absolutely desperate for a LWB. At no point in that last two summer windows has Jones gone my starter for this position is going to be a prem youngster. Our loan signings tend to be people to plug gaps or experienced older players you can potentially make permanentBournesnr said:Chambers????
Your statement has been proved incorrect, accept you're in the wrong, stop trying to wriggle out of it.4 -
After we had been rejected by Ruddy, Sinasalo, Begovic and Davies, point still stands Jones has never gone I want a talented young prem player on loan as a first resort to take us forward.Scoham said:
The Arsenal GK that went to La Liga instead?Crispywood said:
that’s completely different when it was the January window and we were absolutely desperate for a LWB. At no point in that last two summer windows has Jones gone my starter for this position is going to be a prem youngster. Our loan signings tend to be people to plug gaps or experienced older players you can potentially make permanentBournesnr said:Chambers????3 -
He's out of our reach but Dennis Cirkin is leaving Sunderland in the summer. Might mean a good left back comes available from higher in the division though3
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I think we dodge a bullet not getting Begovic considering he has been relegated with Leicester. Kiminski vibes....Crispywood said:
After we had been rejected by Ruddy, Sinasalo, Begovic and Davies, point still stands Jones has never gone I want a talented young prem player on loan as a first resort to take us forward.Scoham said:
The Arsenal GK that went to La Liga instead?Crispywood said:
that’s completely different when it was the January window and we were absolutely desperate for a LWB. At no point in that last two summer windows has Jones gone my starter for this position is going to be a prem youngster. Our loan signings tend to be people to plug gaps or experienced older players you can potentially make permanentBournesnr said:Chambers????7 -
I mean surely this highlights that Jones might be getting more of the blame than is strictly fair. It's not as though he was after Kaminski thinking he was the ideal keeper. There was a long list of targets we went for first and some of those we know were serious targets that got rejected by the players/owning clubs.Crispywood said:
After we had been rejected by Ruddy, Sinasalo, Begovic and Davies, point still stands Jones has never gone I want a talented young prem player on loan as a first resort to take us forward.Scoham said:
The Arsenal GK that went to La Liga instead?Crispywood said:
that’s completely different when it was the January window and we were absolutely desperate for a LWB. At no point in that last two summer windows has Jones gone my starter for this position is going to be a prem youngster. Our loan signings tend to be people to plug gaps or experienced older players you can potentially make permanentBournesnr said:Chambers????
Probably quite a few of our other signings were similarly low on their respective lists. I'm not saying that Jones is blameless or hasn't made mistakes but I don't think we ended up signing mostly league one players because we genuinely thought it was the best way to do things.3 -
We ended up with league one players because we would only pay league one wages.
Take Sam Field in January. He would have been interested in Charlton (more chance of playing) but joined Norwich because they paid much more (money will always be the primary motivator above style of play & risk of being relegated).
This summer we can either offer good championship contracts to players & kick on or we can repeat last summer & end up back in L1 (if that doesn’t happen earlier in a weeks time!)6 -
Is it at easy as that without falling foul of the financial restrictions? I think we posted a £16m loss last year with those L1 wages.Oh Eddie Youds... said:We ended up with league one players because we would only pay league one wages.
Take Sam Field in January. He would have been interested in Charlton (more chance of playing) but joined Norwich because they paid much more (money will always be the primary motivator above style of play & risk of being relegated).
This summer we can either offer good championship contracts to players & kick on or we can repeat last summer & end up back in L1 (if that doesn’t happen earlier in a weeks time!)0 -
It's very tricky. Some of those losses don't count for restrictions as they're on academy/infrastructure. Ideally we probably need a sale or two to help. Berry's wages off the books might help as for L1 he will have been a high earner and then had a bumpChunes said:
Is it at easy as that without falling foul of the financial restrictions? I think we posted a £16m loss last year with those L1 wages.Oh Eddie Youds... said:We ended up with league one players because we would only pay league one wages.
Take Sam Field in January. He would have been interested in Charlton (more chance of playing) but joined Norwich because they paid much more (money will always be the primary motivator above style of play & risk of being relegated).
This summer we can either offer good championship contracts to players & kick on or we can repeat last summer & end up back in L1 (if that doesn’t happen earlier in a weeks time!)0 -
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Well we will generate at least an extra 10M in revenue this season compared to last 2M of that losses applies to academy and not championship ffp rules.Chunes said:
Is it at easy as that without falling foul of the financial restrictions? I think we posted a £16m loss last year with those L1 wages.Oh Eddie Youds... said:We ended up with league one players because we would only pay league one wages.
Take Sam Field in January. He would have been interested in Charlton (more chance of playing) but joined Norwich because they paid much more (money will always be the primary motivator above style of play & risk of being relegated).
This summer we can either offer good championship contracts to players & kick on or we can repeat last summer & end up back in L1 (if that doesn’t happen earlier in a weeks time!)We should definitely be in a position to offer better wages if we sacrifice the amount of fees we’re spending on players. Just get players for the here and now worry about sell on potential later0 -
We seriously lack quality especially in midfield.
We need to go for quality over quantity.
Our squad is plenty big enough as it is.
I would rather sign 4 or 5 players that will improve our starting eleven rather than sign about ten players who can't.19 -
problem with that approach is that when the injuries invariably pile up, we will be even more scewed.blackpool72 said:We seriously lack quality especially in midfield.
We need to go for quality over quantity.
Our squad is plenty big enough as it is.
I would rather sign 4 or 5 players that will improve our starting eleven rather than sign about ten players who can't.0 -
https://x.com/norwichcityfc/status/2047699587289510270
Norwich already announced who will be released0 -
Can't believe Schlupp is only 33. Feels like he's been around forever.Scoham said:https://x.com/norwichcityfc/status/2047699587289510270
Norwich already announced who will be released0 -
Sam Field going back to QPR tooScoham said:https://x.com/norwichcityfc/status/2047699587289510270
Norwich already announced who will be released0 -
Frustrates me when people say we need to sign 'X' player as back up, our next 4-5 signings need to be starters.blackpool72 said:We seriously lack quality especially in midfield.
We need to go for quality over quantity.
Our squad is plenty big enough as it is.
I would rather sign 4 or 5 players that will improve our starting eleven rather than sign about ten players who can't.7 -
Talking about incomings being important I think this is the most important window we’ve ever had in terms of outgoings. We have a squad next season of 32 (includes some of the fringe youngsters and loanees) who have played in the first team at some point.Besides Mannion, Brooks, Sichenje, Ramsay, Jones, Bell, Edwards, Carey if he can find his form, there’s not really anyone I really want to keep and 2 of those are your 2nd+3rd choice keeper1
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I imagine none of those will feature in their last 2 games now and they'll look to play youngsters and fringe players that they intend on keeping onScoham said:https://x.com/norwichcityfc/status/2047699587289510270
Norwich already announced who will be released0 -
I thought Springett looked useful against us at Carrow Road.0
