The Canaries are currently well-stocked at centre-back, with Callum Doyle, Shane Duffy, Ruairi McConville and Jose Cordoba to choose from for head coach Thorup.

Doyle is set to return to parent club Manchester City at the end of his season-long loan at Carrow Road, however, while 33-year-old Duffy has been linked with a move away from the club.

That could open the door to an addition when the campaign is over, believes the Dane, as his side prepares for another active round of recruitment.

“There could be players that we are not talking about right now that will be a part of that mixture,” he said. “You never know. There could also be players from that group of players that will leave this summer, you never know.

“So I think that what we have to get to is the end of the season, make sure that we do that in a good way, get back here together on the first day of training and know what we have to deal with.

“Then we’ll find out during pre-season, a little bit like last summer, where we rotated a lot and gave a lot of playing minutes to a lot of players.”

City have often been let down by the defensive side of their game this season, with an impressive attacking output cancelled out by a series of errors at the back.

Thorup says the responsibility for that is shared, as he looks for answers going into the 2025-26 campaign.

“I think there are many ways to look at it,” he continued. “When we look at the defensive stats, we are an average team in the league. But when we look at the goals we have conceded, we are not average, we are below that.

“That’s obviously not good enough, when we perform to a certain standard but the output is below that. That should not be the case. It is a collective approach, defending, but of course sometimes it also comes down to an individual decision.

“You have to have the right mindset to defend, you have to do whatever it takes to defend in moments. I think we’ve probably been a little bit too soft in some of the moments.”