{"id":559840,"date":"2020-07-27T11:42:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=559840"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:41:28","slug":"bali-mumba-joins-norwich-city-from-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/27\/bali-mumba-joins-norwich-city-from-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Bali Mumba Joins Norwich City From Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/norwich-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norwich City<\/a> have confirmed the signing of young <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/sunderland\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland<\/a> midfielder Bali Mumba. The 18-year-old joins Norwich on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<h2>Bali Mumba Signs for Norwich City From Sunderland<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bali Mumba is a Canary! \ud83d\udc24<\/p>\n<p>The England youth international joins from Sunderland on a deal until 2024! \ud83d\udc4a<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd1c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MumbaJoins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MumbaJoins<\/a> \ud83e\udd1b<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorwichCityFC\/status\/1287765525171404800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Leaving Sunderland<\/h3>\n<p>Bali Mumba leaves Sunderland after making ten senior appearances for his boyhood club. He made his debut aged 16 in a 3-0 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/wolves-club-analysis-news-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a>, coming off the bench for then-club captain <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/7c1f4685\/John-OShea\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John O&#8217;Shea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mumba started the first three games of the 2018\/19 season as Sunderland began life in League One. The arrivals of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/8092d497\/Luke-ONien\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke O&#8217;Nien<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/62bac55a\/Max-Power\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Power<\/a> pushed the youngster down the pecking order. As a result, he continued to ply his trade in the U23 set-up. In this time, he represented England at U16 and U19 level.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster spent the last half of the season on loan at Northern Premier League side South Shields in an attempt to gain first-team minutes. Whilst the experience was invaluable, the season was cut short due to COVID-19. As a result, he is limited in his exposure to first-team football.<\/p>\n<h3>A Massive Opportunity<\/h3>\n<p>Joining Norwich is a massive opportunity for Mumba to impress. The East-Anglian side have an impressive record in developing young talent. Full-backs Max Aarons and Jamal Lewis came through the youth ranks at the club and are attracting interest. James Maddison plied his trade at Norwich before joining Leicester City and Todd Cantwell could <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/02\/17\/report-liverpool-interested-in-rising-star-todd-cantwell\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">join a big Premier League club<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>All this is to say, Bali Mumba has joined a club that will allow him to flourish. Norwich&#8217;s philosophy is to help young players develop. Mumba spoke about how his new teammates inspire him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve watched <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/774cf58b\/Max-Aarons\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Aarons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/efb9215a\/Jamal-Lewis\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamal Lewis<\/a> a lot,&#8221; Mumba told Norwich&#8217;s official website. &#8220;I\u2019ve seen how they\u2019ve progressed through the system and have continued to develop and that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m hoping to replicate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"XYGLscGcR8Js8MHj04_law\" 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\/1067111130\" 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:'XYGLscGcR8Js8MHj04_law',sig:'3oazX-U0bjAmksI6soKAiZvP34fKPdYTmT1WnGI4bsQ=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1067111130',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 confirmed the signing of young Sunderland midfielder Bali Mumba. The 18-year-old joins Norwich on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee. Bali Mumba Signs for Norwich City From Sunderland &nbsp; Bali Mumba is a Canary! \ud83d\udc24 The England youth international joins from Sunderland on a deal until 2024! \ud83d\udc4a \ud83e\udd1c #MumbaJoins \ud83e\udd1b [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3265,"featured_media":559848,"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":[32,30,1370,1369,28],"tags":[5636,5824,6179,237,35,37,136],"class_list":["post-559840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-news","category-norwich-city","category-sunderland-league-football","category-transfers","tag-bali-mumba","tag-jamal-lewis","tag-max-aarons","tag-norwich-city","tag-sunderland","tag-transfers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559840","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\/3265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}