Yes, they're bigger clubs. But it's impossible for either of them to break the top 6

Never mind the top 4 - and with neither spending anything. both will just go backwards instead. Meaning his best case scenario at either is he does a Moyes and gets stuck, finding the path to the best jobs blocked off to him.

Meanwhile, if we build properly over the next year or two, back him in the transfer market etc, we might end up 7th or 8th ourselves: meaning our potential extends to more or less matching what either Everton or Villa can achieve. And at Norwich, he has a board he works well with, players who respond magnificently to him, fans who adore him, a whole bloody region who want to have his babies.

Leave that, for a club where he can't do much more, and whose fans will afford him none of the time and patience he'll get here? He'd be daft to do so; and here's the thing about Paul Lambert: daft, he ain't.

Posted By: thebigfeller, Jan 2, 18:34:16