Norwich are set to formally method FC Nordsjælland within the hope of appointing Johannes Hof Torup as their new head coach.
Thorup has emerged as Norwich’s most well-liked candidate to succeed David Wagner.
Norwich sacked Wagner lower than 24 hours after their Championship play-off defeat to Leeds.
And now official talks between Norwich and FC Nordsjælland are attributable to happen firstly of the week after the top of the Danish Superliga Nordsjælland season on Sunday.
Norwich should pay compensation for Torup and have already secured a piece allow for the 35-year-old.
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Torup took up his first position in managing the Danish group in January 2023 after rising by the ranks on the membership, managing the youth groups. Final season, Nordsjælland took second place within the Danish Superliga.
Former Reims head coach Will Steele and former AZ Alkmaar supervisor Pascal Jansen had been two different coaches being critically thought-about by Norwich, however they’re now pushing forward with a transfer for Torup, who has admitted he’s open to a transfer overseas at some stage.
“At one level or one other it is perhaps fascinating to attempt one other league, nation and one other tradition,” Torup advised the Danish publication SN.
“But it surely actually needs to be an thrilling undertaking as a result of I might say it takes lots to beat it.
“It is not one thing I’ve thought of lots. However sooner or later it may be thrilling. I do know this world, too, and I am not at all times the grasp of it. Typically it occurs rapidly. Typically not a lot.
“I can not simply say I will keep right here for 10 years both – there are others who most likely suppose it is a good suggestion.
“Hopefully, I am simply firstly of all of it, and I hope that I’ll see issues that I can develop about myself. I do not consider that at any level I say that I now know what I have to know. “