2:41 FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from Brighton’s win over Norwich in the Premier League
“It’s difficult for the fans, it’s difficult for the players, it’s the whole thing. It’s not about pointing fingers at someone and saying: ‘This is the problem.’ We are all hurt. We don’t want to be here, if it was up to us we’d be in the Premier League for our whole life.
“We’ve missed the fans. The Norwich fans give you that feeling when there is an important game coming. Now, yes we feel they are there and watching, but it’s not the same as them being there. Having the fans makes the game, it can help you get the game going in your way, and can impact the other team with intimidation. I’ve been here eight years, and whenever the team comes out at Carrow Road, you know when it is a big game. We’ve missed this.”
So what next for Norwich? There are 15 points up for grabs, starting at Watford on Tuesday, live on Sky Sports and Sky Pick at 6pm.
It would be the greatest of great escapes, following a season in which Daniel Farke’s side have played a similar style to their Championship promotion season. Naive? Perhaps, but Norwich have an identity, and not just on the pitch.
They are in danger of becoming the Premier League’s perennial yo-yo side – they have enjoyed five promotions but never stayed around for longer than three years – and for Tettey, though their ethos is admirable, everything eventually comes down to money.
“This club is built on getting players that are good, but not exceptionally good. You gel them together, and you have a good collective that works. Buying players and paying them a lot of money, to me Norwich is not about that, they’ve never done this. So for it to be like this is all about economy.
“I don’t think it will come to that because Norwich is built on finding those talents, gelling a team together, working with young kids, helping them develop and pushing them onto bigger teams.
“To properly stay in the Premier League; you see West Ham, Watford, they all spend money. The size of the club is not a Man Utd or a Liverpool, but they are always spending huge amount of money.”
Watch Watford vs Norwich live on Sky Pick, Sky Sports Premier League or Main Event from 5.30pm; kick-off at 6pm.
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