Ben Knapper drops Norwich City transfer update with Sainz, Sargent exits likely.

Ben Knapper has claimed that the club are more focused on their incomings than their outgoings this summer, with pressure anticipated to increase on them to sell star strikers Borja Sainz and Josh Sargent. The American striker has already experienced what it’s like to play at the greatest level, for both club and country, whilst his counterpart dreams of representing Spain and playing in the Premier League.

Sargent has long been attracting interest from the top level, and he is aware that he will have several alternatives this summer. Clubs from his previous Bundesliga and English first division are apparently interested in the 25-year-old, who has also been linked with a transfer to newly promoted Leeds United. For Knapper, Norwich’s sporting director, the focus this summer is not on how much money they can earn from the pair, but on how they can improve to compete for promotion after a dismal season.

Ben Knapper’s Norwich summer transfer window claim amid Sainz & Sargent worries

“We’re ambitious,” he stated, via The Pink Un. “We want to create a team that can compete at the top end of this league. For any team with good players, you’re always going to face that challenge. You have to walk towards that challenge and know that that’s just part of the process. But I think what this club has always shown, and particularly the new owners, is that we’re a club that trades. I think when clubs use the phrase ‘player trading,’

“We’ve shown in the last two windows that we will go and target really high quality players, and pay substantial transfer fees, and that’s something that we would do again, if that situation was to present itself.” Norwich will need to raise funds in order to make the desired impact in the forthcoming transfer window. The former Arsenal loans manager does not intend to offload Sainz and Sargent, however. “We’re a business at the end of the day, so we need to keep things in balance. We are not fully limited by the requirement to sell players before we can do anything. It’s not like that. Of certainly, it is a factor.

“We work multiple windows in advance, where you try to model what may or may not happen and what that might mean for your strategy. That’s normal. That’s the same with any club going into any summer.

“There’s another dynamic you have to consider, which is the player perspective. We understand where we sit in the broader kind of landscape, and that has to be a factor in what happens as well.