New Norwich City brag Liam Manning says helium is backmost successful the metropolis to win, not for aged times.
The boyhood Canaries instrumentality has been speaking for the archetypal clip since being appointed arsenic the Championship club's caller brag last week.
Manning becomes the archetypal Norwich-born caput manager astatine Carrow Road, having led Bristol City to the play-offs past season.
"It'll assistance knowing the city, the past of the nine and immoderate of the fans and erstwhile players but the biggest operator was ever the club, the ambition, the task and what we're trying to achieve," helium told BBC Radio Norfolk.
"It's not coming backmost present for niceties, it's coming backmost to beryllium successful."
The 39-year-old erstwhile Norwich younker subordinate besides coached successful Ipswich Town's academy earlier taking MK Dons to the League One play-offs successful 2022 and had a little spell astatine Oxford United who were 2nd successful the 3rd tier erstwhile helium near to articulation Bristol City.
"My archetypal unrecorded lucifer was here, my archetypal play summons was present and I've got immoderate fond memories - it's specified a fantastic city, fantastic fanbase, truthful if you tin execute present you tin beryllium remembered truthful we'll beryllium doing everything we tin to effort to bring occurrence to people," helium said.
Manning admits leaving Ashton Gate was not the easiest determination having taken Bristol City to a sixth-placed decorativeness but besides with the enactment helium was fixed pursuing the death of his babe lad Theo successful October.
"Any determination you marque successful this crippled is hard truthful successful presumption of the 18 months I had determination it was palmy and evidently a challenging clip personally which creates a a level of affiliation and empathy with the radical there," helium said.
"But erstwhile we had the discussions (at Norwich) of what it looks similar and the absorption - knowing the nine and the fanbase and the ambition here, it matches with maine highly good truthful it was a hard determination but I'm definite it's the close one."
Norwich finished 13th successful the Championship past season, 11 points abbreviated of the play-offs, and sacked caput manager Johannes Hoff Thorup successful April, leaving Manning to go the Norfolk club's 4th imperishable brag successful nether 4 years.
"We're successful the results concern truthful we person to triumph and I privation to triumph but to prolong winning it has to beryllium underpinned by immoderate truly bully practices and processes and a truly beardown culture," said the caller boss.
"You spell into the play wanting to decorativeness successful the apical six, it's knowing however you bash that - that's the extremity goal."
He volition instantly crook his attentions to gathering Norwich's squad for adjacent play with speculation surrounding the futures of forwards Josh Sargent and Borja Sainz successful particular, portion they person been linked with Swansea's out-of-contract defender Harry Darling, who Manning worked with astatine MK Dons.
"I had a terrific clip with Harry astatine MK Dons and helium was outstanding - he's truly excelled astatine the level and determination isn't a immense magnitude of players astatine his property oregon his illustration who are available," said Manning.
"He'll person a ample magnitude of involvement but he's decidedly idiosyncratic for maine who would beryllium a bully fit."
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