{"id":600455,"date":"2021-08-30T05:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T09:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=600455"},"modified":"2022-08-07T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T18:06:07","slug":"norwich-city-ozan-kabak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/30\/norwich-city-ozan-kabak\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozan Kabak Completes Move to Norwich City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/07\/todd-cantwell-told-he-can-leave-norwich-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Speaking to canaries.co.uk<\/a> have completed a deal with Schalke for Ozan Kabak, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1432303449899732998\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. It will be an initial loan with an option to buy for the former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/28\/liverpool-defencies-chelsea-draw\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> loanee. The Turkish defender will reportedly leave for England and have his medical later today.<\/p>\n<p>Schalke\u2019s need to sell Kabak is no secret, as is Kabak\u2019s desire to leave. To put it simply, the club just haven\u2019t been able to find a suitable solution. They recently rejected Torino\u2019s approach, once again leaving the defender without his move. With just under two days left until the transfer window slams shut, Kabak will be delighted to finally get his move.<\/p>\n<h2>Norwich Complete Deal for Ozan Kabak<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\ud835\udde2\ud835\uddde\ud835\udfed\ud835\udff1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeKabak?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeKabak<\/a> \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZlTDnpsX7x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ZlTDnpsX7x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorwichCityFC\/status\/1432397705079398400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Norwich Need Defender<\/h3>\n<p>If you look at Norwich City\u2019s backline, their need for a central defender is obvious. If they want to finally have a successful spell in the Premier League, they simply cannot be starting the likes of Grant Hanley. Daniel Farke must learn that the same foundations at the back as 2019\/20 will not result in survival. Ozan Kabak feels like a need, and not a want.<\/p>\n<p>Having had an impressive spell at Liverpool before injury struck, too, the Canaries may end up with a bargain if they decide to trigger Kabak\u2019s option to buy next summer. Taking every factor into account, it\u2019s surprising that the defender didn\u2019t get his summer move sooner. He\u2019s young, yet has enough top flight experience, good on the ball, and not exactly slow, either.<\/p>\n<p>Out of every proposal made this summer, it is Norwich City\u2019s that would have attracted Kabak the most. He would have felt as though he had unfinished business in the Premier League having originally broke into the Liverpool side before the aforementioned injury cut his time short, allowing Nat Phillip and Rhys Williams to take the reigns.<\/p>\n<p>In landing the deal, the Canaries have significantly boosted their survival chances this season.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/07\/todd-cantwell-told-he-can-leave-norwich-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Speaking to canaries.co.uk<\/a>, Kabak said: \u201cI\u2019m very happy to be a part of this family. I\u2019m looking forward to playing in front of the fans and getting some points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with the head coach and I\u2019m really impressed by his project and what he said to me. I believe in him and his project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played in the Premier League last year and I really enjoyed it. So, I want to play again and that\u2019s why I\u2019m here. I want to play in the Premier League and to give something to the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to playing in front of the fans with this jersey. We will work hard to get some wins and take some points to make our fans happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"n1VD_mJnRkRYmf5TAyy5XA\" 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\/1233204964\" 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:'n1VD_mJnRkRYmf5TAyy5XA',sig:'ZZOSPqHWSuIwKHcagpWhqqfzbYnn4ScJIj71JnNLtrA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1233204964',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>Speaking to canaries.co.uk have completed a deal with Schalke for Ozan Kabak, reports Fabrizio Romano. It will be an initial loan with an option to buy for the former Liverpool loanee. The Turkish defender will reportedly leave for England and have his medical later today. Schalke\u2019s need to sell Kabak is no secret, as is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":600456,"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":[3,30,1370,7188,28],"tags":[3599,269],"class_list":["post-600455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-news","category-norwich-city","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-ozan-kabak","tag-schalke"],"modified_by":"Matt Jarvis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600455","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\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}