Johannes Hoff Thorup: Norwich City boss says even best teams can be ‘boring’

He continued: “I’d rather go down that road than just give the ball away and then it is more up to random situations. The way we are going to approach the game is that it has to be not random.

“The way we see things is that we can train everything in football and we can prepare these players for more or less every situation in football, and that’s the approach we are going to have. There is a risk that sometimes it can be a little boring.”

Thorup joined Norwich from FC Nordsjaelland, having guided them to a second-place finish in 2022-23 to earn a spot in the qualifying rounds of the Europa Conference League.

And last season he took the club to the group stage of the European competition and a fourth-place finish in the Danish Superliga table.

He now has the task of leading Norwich to another promotion run, having been relegated from the Premier League in 2022.

They play their first pre-season friendly against Northampton Town on Saturday and will then face four European sides before beginning the new league campaign with a trip to promoted Oxford United on 10 August.