{"id":520250,"date":"2026-03-05T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:03:08","slug":"norwich-city-neil-adams-to-leave-norwich-in-canaries-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520250\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City: Neil Adams to leave Norwich in Canaries shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norwich are planning to promote head of recruitment Lee Dunn in an internal shake-up, with assistant sporting director Neil Adams leaving the Canaries.<\/p>\n

Sporting director Ben Knapper will make Dunn his number two which means Adams is departing Carrow Road since first joining the club as a player 32 years ago. <\/p>\n

He has been in his current role for nearly five years having previously been loans manager while he won the FA Youth Cup as Under-18’s coach in 2013. <\/p>\n

Adams, 59, will leave at the end of the season having been in discussions with the club about stepping down as he looks towards retirement. <\/p>\n

The former winger, who also managed the club between 2014 and 2015, made 206 appearances for Norwich between 1994 and 1999. <\/p>\n

Knapper has worked closely with Dunn since his appointment in 2023,<\/a> with Dunn being handed extra responsibilities last summer.<\/p>\n

Knapper has been under severe pressure this season after spending over \u00a350m only for Norwich to languish in the Championship relegation zone at the start of the season. <\/p>\n

Supporters called for his sacking but he survived and ex-Rangers boss Philippe Clement replaced Liam Manning in November instead, taking the Canaries to 17th after Saturday’s 2-0 win at Leicester. <\/p>\n

Norwich will look for a new head of recruitment to replace Dunn. <\/p>\n

Head of football development Dean Rastrick is also in discussions with Everton about becoming their academy manager. <\/p>\n

Rastrick returned to Norwich in 2023, having previously been assistant academy manager for four years from 2006. <\/p>\n

He spent 13 years at Tottenham and ran the academy from July 2020 until his departure after John McDermott joined the Football Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norwich are planning to promote head of recruitment Lee Dunn in an internal shake-up, with assistant sporting director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-520250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}