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Norwich City are working on a deal to sign teenage defender Harry Amass on loan from Manchester United.

The 18-year-old left-back spent the first half of the season on loan with the Championship's bottom side Sheffield Wednesday before returning to United earlier this month.

But it is understood Amass, who made 21 appearances for the Owls, will not be going back to Hillsborough.

Stoke City and Watford were reportedly also interested in taking the England Under-19 international on loan but a move to the Canaries is now believed to be close.

Amass won consecutive player of the month awards for November and December at Wednesday and scored one goal.

Norwich City have a fresh energy under boss Philippe Clement, according to midfielder Anis Ben Slimane.

The Canaries moved out of the Championship's relegation zone with a 5-0 win at West Brom on Tuesday night with Slimane scoring his second goal in two games.

"It's amazing, five goals away and a clean sheet, you can't get better than that," the 24-year-old told BBC Radio Norfolk.

"After the tough start we had to the season with the results not going with us they are starting to turn around now.

"Since the new manager and new staff [came in] you can see it's a team with a fresh energy and the whole group work hard, not just the 11 players but those who come on and those who don't play."

Slimane had injury issues at the start of the season and also struggled to get in the squad under previous head coach Liam Manning and the Tunisian is grateful for the chance handed to him by Clement.

"He saw the potential of the group and the whole squad. For me personally he gave me a chance and that's something I appreciate and don't want to let him down," he added.

"Several players have the same feeling as me and that always gives something to the group."

Norwich will try to make it three successive league wins for the first time this season when they host the leaders Coventry on Monday, 26 January (20:00 GMT).

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All English Football League games across a four-day period in February will begin one minute late to raise awareness for the Every Minute Matters campaign.

The initiative will be in place for 36 matches across the Championship, League One and League Two between 5 and 9 February.

EFL sponsor Sky Bet and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) have been working together since May 2024 to highlight the importance of speed when it comes to performing live-saving CPR.

Later kick-off times will serve as "a stark reminder that every minute matters", the EFL said.

Bristol Rovers defender Tom Lockyer collapsed while playing for Luton Town eight minutes into the Championship play-off final against Coventry in May 2023.

Lockyer then suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch seven months later during a Premier League game at Bournemouth.

"What happened to me can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time," said Lockyer, who is now a BHF ambassador.

"Every year, more than 40,000 people in the UK suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and most of them never make it home.

"I'm here today because of the transformative power of CPR as every minute matters when it comes to saving a life.

"This February, we want everyone to get behind this life-saving initiative, learn the skills and be ready to step in because your actions could give someone else the chance I was given."

Throughout February, the Every Minute Matters campaign will call on fans to learn CPR using the BHF's online RevivR, external tool.

"Each minute without CPR reduces a person's chance of survival, so we're urging fans to learn the skills now, before you ever need them," said Dr Charmaine Griffiths, chief executive of the BHF.

EFL chief executive officer Trevor Birch added: "The one minute kick-off adjustment is a simple, powerful reminder that swift CPR can be the difference between life and death."

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Norwich City's 5-0 win at West Brom on Tuesday night is a reward for the hard work they are doing, says head coach Philippe Clement.

The victory at The Hawthorns was the Canaries second successive away win after a 2-1 win at Wrexham on Saturday.

"I'm really happy for the fans and happy for the players as well, that they get their reward for all the hard work that they have been doing, that they are doing and they need to keep on doing, let's be clear about that," Clement told BBC Radio Norfolk.

"I'm really pleased for the clean sheet, scoring five goals, five different goalscorers. A few weeks ago, we talked about that, that we were too dependent on our strikers to score the goals and that we had to attack more with the whole team.

Norwich are now out of the Championship relegation zone and next host leaders Coventry on Monday, 26 January (20:00 GMT).

"Also, two tough away games, winning, that's the first time this season - I think even two games in a row winning for the first time, so a lot of positives and also to see all the fans so happy and singing and all the smiling faces – that gives me a lot of energy," added Clement.

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Norwich City are interested in signing Bodo/Glimt striker Kasper Hogh this month.

The 25-year-old has appeared in all six of the Norwegian club's Champions League group-stage fixtures this season and is expected to feature against Manchester City on Tuesday.

He ended last season as the joint top goalscorer in the Europa League, along with Olympiacos' Ayoub El Kaabi and Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes. His team were knocked out in the semi-finals by eventual winners Tottenham.

Hogh has been touted as a potential replacement for Josh Sargent amid doubt over the American's future at Carrow Road.

A fee of just over £6m is thought to be enough to acquire Hogh and BBC Norfolk understands , externalthe former Denmark Under-21 international wants to join the Championship club.

Norwich City could escape the bottom three if they take victory against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns on Tuesday (19:45 GMT).

The Canaries are just one point shy of safety and could rise out of the relegation zone with just a draw before Portsmouth play Watford on Wednesday.

Albion will also want something from the game as new boss Eric Ramsay looks to take his first points since his appointment on 11 January.

• After their 1-0 win in October, West Brom could complete their first league double over Norwich City since 2007-08.

• Norwich are winless in their last four league visits to West Brom (D2 L2) since a 1-0 victory in the Premier League in March 2016.

• West Brom have only won one of their last 10 midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) league games (D2 L7), although that was against Norwich in October (1-0).

• Norwich have only won one of their last 12 league matches played on a Tuesday (D7 L4), a 6-1 win over Plymouth in November 2024.

Norwich City head to West Bromwich Albion in the Championship on the back of a stirring 2-1 win at Wrexham on Saturday.

Head coach Philippe Clement spoke to the media before Tuesday's game at The Hawthorns (19:45 GMT), here are some of the key points:

• Defender Lucien Mahovo has a muscle injury that will not need surgery, but Clement said he will be out for "quite a while".

• The head coach said there may be a need to sign a new left-back as cover for Mahovo.

• On Josh Sargent, who missed the trip to Wrexham due to disciplinary reasons, and will be absent for the trip to the Midlands: "If there is a change, I will be the first one to tell anybody".

• Clement said players may leave during the transfer window but only if it is a good move for them and the club.

• The head coach had talks on Sunday with sporting director Ben Knapper about potential new signings. "It's an exciting period to make things better," he said.

You can listen to full live coverage of Norwich versus WBA with BBC Radio Norfolk on FM and DAB. Coverage starts at 19:00 GMT on Tuesday.

Victory at Wrexham showed Norwich's desire to compete with the best in the Championship, according to head coach Philippe Clement.

The Canaries came out on top 2-1 in north Wales despite Josh Sargent being left behind for disciplinary reasons.

"A lot of respect to Wrexham who are playing a really good season, they won their last five games and beat a Premier League team (Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup), so it's a really hard place to come," said Clement.

"But we came with confidence, belief and the right energy. This is the confirmation of the training week that I saw.

"It's a massive win, it's an important win and it's a good statement that we want to compete with the best teams in the league."

Norwich remain in the bottom three as Portsmouth also won away from home, at Sheffield Wednesday.

Their next game is away to West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday evening.

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Tamworth have signed Norwich City winger Brandon Forbes on a 28-day loan agreement.

The 19-year-old joined the Canaries from Scottish Premiership side Dundee United ahead of the 2024-25 season.

He is yet to feature for the Norwich first team but did score on his United debut in the Scottish League Cup against Ayr shortly before his move to Carrow Road.

Forbes joins The Lambs with the club in mid-table, seven points shy of the play-off places.

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Sheffield United striker Patrick Bamford has won the English Football League's player of the month award for December.

Bamford scored four goals across the Blades' six Championship games in December, including a double in their thrilling 5-3 defeat against Wrexham.

"I'm really happy. I'm surprised, I guess, a little bit because I wasn't ever thinking about any individual awards and that was the least of my priorities when coming in, but I think it's testament to the group and the staff and the players," Bamford said., external

"I know it's an individual award, but obviously, as a striker, you can't do it without your team-mates, so I owe a lot to them for that."

He beat Norwich forward Jovon Makama, Preston goalkeeper Daniel Iversen and Leicester midfielder Bobby De Cordova-Reid for the award.

Norwich City are set to battle Celtic, Brighton and Crystal Palace for 17-year-old Dundalk defender Vinnie Leonard who impressed for the Republic of Ireland in the under-17 World Cup. (Football Insider, external)

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Norwich City fans will need their sat-nav and road maps for this one as they head to Wrexham for a league match for the first time in more than 44 years.

They will face a Wrexham side on a four-game winning run and only one point short of the play-off places.

• Wrexham are set to host Norwich for a league game for the first time since September 1981. They have lost all three previous home league games against the Canaries, however.

• Norwich won five of their first six league games (D1) against Wrexham between 1958 and 1982 but they were beaten 3-2 at Carrow Road earlier this season.

• Wrexham have won their past four league matches, their best-ever winning run at this level of English football. Since 2004-05, the only newly-promoted Championship sides to win five in a row are QPR in 2004-05 (7), Leicester in 2009-10 (5), Bournemouth in 2013-14 (5), Brentford in 2014-15 (5) and Ipswich in 2023-24 (6).

• Norwich have kept just five clean sheets in their past 45 games in all competitions, and no side has fewer Championship clean sheets this season than the Canaries (2).

• Since Philippe Clement's first game in charge of Norwich on November 22, Jovon Makama has more goals in all competitions than any other Championship player (9 in 11 games), scoring an FA Cup third round hat-trick against Walsall last time out.

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Sheffield United striker Patrick Bamford and Norwich forward Jovon Makama have been nominated for the Championship's player of the month award for December along with Preston goalkeeper Daniel Iversen and Leicester midfielder Bobby De Cordova-Reid.

Bamford signed an 18-month contract with Sheffield United earlier this month having initially joined on a short-term deal in November.

The 32-year-old has scored six goals in 11 appearances for the Blades, including four in December.

Norwich's Makama is the Canaries' leading scorer this season with 12 goals in all competitions.

He scored twice in a victory over Southampton last month, once in a draw at Preston and the winner against Charlton - those goals worth a valuable seven points to a relegation-threatened Norwich side.

Iversen has kept eight clean sheets for Preston so far this season and vital saves against the leaders Coventry and Stoke in December helped the Lilywhites into fourth place.

With four goals in six games, meanwhile, De Cordova-Reid had a prolific December for Leicester as he scored in three successive matches.

The winner will be announced on Friday, 16 January.