Norwich City transfers: Five potential new goalkeepers
With a new first-choice goalkeeper one of Norwich City’s key tasks this summer transfer window, Samuel Seaman highlights five options that Ben Knapper should consider.
American talent Schulte is another keeper who stands out statistically, and he won’t be unfamiliar with Norwich after playing with Josh Sargent at international level.
He actually grew up in the same state as Sargent, but that’s not all that the three-cap international is known for. He’s also outperformed his PSxG by 0.2 per 90 in the last year, and his distribution style is closer to what City are looking for than Cumming’s.
He’s in just the third percentile among stoppers for length of goal kicks, having opted to go short for the vast majority of them as Columbus Crew have charged to the top of the MLS Eastern Conference.
The lure of English football could tempt him to Carrow Road as it did his countryman and at 24 he’s a good age. But other sides will certainly have picked up on his good form, and whoever next wins his signature will have come through a battle to do so.
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Former striker hits back at claims he went to watch Aston Villa while injured
Former Aston Villa striker and academy product was Cardiff City’s top scorer, despite their relegation
Former Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion forward Callum Robinson has hit back at suggestions that he attended Villa’s home game with Fulham last weekend, instead of being in attendance to see his Cardiff City side, already relegated, in action away at Norwich City.
Cardiff have been sent packing to League One this term, a fate sealed after their recent goalless draw with Albion, but Robinson was absent for the final four games of their campaign because of an Achilles injury.
Despite injury issues, the Republic of Ireland international netted 12 goals in the struggling side this term and, as a result, won the club’s player of the year award, a consolation considering their collective demise.
Robinson, along with Yakou Meite, Dimitrios Goutas and former Villa winger Anwar El Ghazi were all absent as the Bluebirds were turned over 4-2 at Carrow Road in their Championship farewell. While the other three players are out of contract and know they’ll be moving on, Robinson remains tied to the Welsh capital – although Wrexham are reportedly interested.
Meite was in action seeing his former club Reading on Saturday, as they pushed to secure a League One play-off place on the final day of the campaign, a day when their long-awaited takeover was green lighted. BBC Sport Wales claimed that Robinson had also been to see one of his former sides, Villa, in action – but he took to social media to publicly refute it.
“I’d love to see the proof of this because on Saturday I was at no football match,” Robinson posted in response. “Don’t believe all you read.”
The BBC replied: “This post has been updated to correct an error in the original version, in which Callum Robinson was said to have been at Aston Villa’s game on Saturday. Robinson has clarified that he did not attend any game that day.”
Robinson only played five times for Villa’s first team but his career took off at Preston North End before he earned a move to Premier League Sheffield United in 2019. Months later, though, he was loaned to Albion, where he’d sign permanently and make 95 appearances, scoring 17 goals and moving to Cardiff in 2022.
