Norwich have sacked Dean Smith while sitting fifth in the Championship, but the club’s trajectory shows that the problems run deeper than the manager. twoht
Norwich have sacked Dean Smith while sitting fifth in the Championship, but the club’s trajectory shows that the problems run deeper than the manager.With just 10 points between relegation and the play-off places, the Championship is yet again proving itself to be the most idiosyncratic of divisions. With the scent of desperation at the possibility of all that lovely Premier League loot so tantalisingly close, clubs are taking points off each other left, right and centre.
But the axe has now fallen on Dean Smith. The straw that broke the camel’s back was a 2-1 defeat at Luton Town on Boxing Day, a match played exactly nine years and 11 months after Luton travelled to Carrow Road as a National League side in the fourth round of the FA Cup and beat their then-Premier League hosts by a goal to nil – becoming the first non-league club to beat a top-flight club in the FA Cup in almost 30 years.
The other two players were loan signings: Isaac Hayden from Newcastle United and Aaron Ramsey from Aston Villa. Hayden’s recurring knee injury cropped up again before the league season even started, and he didn’t even play for them until the middle of October. Ramsey – the 19-year old brother of Villa forward Jacob – took until the end of October to score his first goals for the club.
Norwich’s league position at the time of Farke’s departure was bad, but it can hardly be considered to have been a huge surprise. If the club had the possibility of sacking Farke should they struggle in the Premier League in the back of their mind, why on earth did they agree a four-year contract extension with him just four months earlier? Because all this chopping and changing is just haemorrhaging money.
Of course, clubs do break through this and thrive after promotion. Fulham, who have been yo-yoing in the opposite direction to Norwich in recent seasons, seem to have finally cracked the code and are well settled in mid-table.
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