{"id":542262,"date":"2020-01-31T04:21:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T09:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=542262"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:42:22","slug":"norwich-city-complete-signing-of-sam-mccallum-from-coventry-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/31\/norwich-city-complete-signing-of-sam-mccallum-from-coventry-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City Complete Signing of Sam McCallum From Coventry City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwich City have completed the signing of Coventry City left-back Sam McCallum. The 19-year-old joins for an undisclosed fee on a deal until 2024 but will remain on loan at the Sky Blues for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Sam McCallum Joins Norwich City From Coventry City<\/h2>\n<h3>Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>At 19-years-old, McCallum&#8217;s career is only just taking off. However, in his short time as a player, he has already impressed immensely.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster spent time at the Jamie Vardy V9 Academy, set up to help non-league players get moves to clubs. There, he caught the attention of Herne Bay, where he spent his youth career.<\/p>\n<p>Coventry spotted the youngster and made a move for him at the start of the 2018\/19 season. He made his debut in November of that year, coming on as a substitute in an EFL Trophy game against Cheltenham Town.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, McCallum has helped Coventry in their promotion push, a remarkable feat considering they currently do not have a ground of their own and have been sharing St Andrews with nearby Birmingham City.<\/p>\n<p>McCallum has scored three goals in all competitions this season, including two in League One which came away at Wycombe Wanderers and at home to MK Dons.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, McCallum said: \u201cThe last 24 hours have been hectic to say the least but quite overwhelming as well. Everyone has welcomed me with open arms, so it\u2019s been good as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m quite an athletic player. I play left-back but I can play wing-back as well, so I like to get up and down the wings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club\u2019s got a good philosophy of bringing through young players like Max and Jamal, as well as Ben Godfrey. It\u2019s a good philosophy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Daniel Farke added: \u201cSam is a very interesting talent and we\u2019re delighted that he sees his long-term future with us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all excited by his potential. He\u2019s a young, homegrown player who we hope can continue to develop and improve. We will allow him to work with all of the right tools in our environment and look forward to seeing how far he can progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"zGKznhY-SDJSR7rOVOBtZQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1197676754\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'zGKznhY-SDJSR7rOVOBtZQ',sig:'P0W_7MGXP5XZr9D9CCwDnO4sTcsIEgTZ6yFnoXWtkFU=',w:'594px',h:'405px',items:'1197676754',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwich City have completed the signing of Coventry City left-back Sam McCallum. The 19-year-old joins for an undisclosed fee on a deal until 2024 but will remain on loan at the Sky Blues for the rest of the season. Sam McCallum Joins Norwich City From Coventry City Career So Far At 19-years-old, McCallum&#8217;s career is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":542266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,32858,34,30,1370,3,28],"tags":[661,168,188,237,40,4795,37,136],"class_list":["post-542262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-coventry-city","category-league12","category-news","category-norwich-city","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-coventry-city","tag-efl","tag-league-one","tag-norwich-city","tag-premier-league","tag-sam-mccallu","tag-transfers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670339,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542262\/revisions\/670339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}