Norwich City manager Paul Lambert is delighted with the performance of his low-profile summer signings so far this season.
Norwich boss insists he always had faith in his recruits
Norwich City manager Paul Lambert is delighted with the performance of his low-profile summer signings so far this season.
Lambert was criticised in some quarters for recruiting players from outside the Premier League, with doubts on their ability to compete in the English top-flight raised.
However, the newly-promoted Canaries have been impressive in the early stages of the 2011/12 campaign and are currently placed eighth in the table with 12 points from nine matches.
Boss Lambert is glad to find his players repay his faith and is confident that they will improve as the season progresses.
"I saw (Anthony) Pilkington for Stockport when I was at Wycombe," he said. "I think him and (Elliott) Bennett the way they have come out of League One football is unbelievable. Marc (Tierney) was another I knew from his Shrewsbury days.
"Ian (Culverhouse) and I knew a lot of lads who had played against us and it's like anything - when a good player hits your eye he tends to stay there and if there is a chance to give him an opportunity you look at it to bring them into an environment with better players, which might bring his game on.
"That is what has happened with a lot of lads. (Bradley) Johnson has quite rightly been talked about for the England thing but to get him for free and playing the best football he has for a long time is great.
"Foxy (David Fox) cost us £25,000 or whatever it was from Colchester at the time and he is another one."
Norwich, who held Liverpool to a 1-1 draw at Anfield last weekend, welcome Blackburn Rovers to Carrow Road on Saturday.
