{"id":561598,"date":"2026-05-02T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561598\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:22:15","slug":"norwich-city-philippe-clement-on-ante-crnac-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561598\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City: Philippe Clement on Ante Crnac potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The \u00a38.5m rated Croatian suffered a season-ending ACL knee injury after 11 Championship appearances, and has not featured at all during the Belgian\u2019s Carrow Road revival.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But the 22-year-old, who produced 12 goal assists in his first debut tour in England, is on course to be back for the start pre-season later this summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI&#8217;m actually looking forward to working with him because I\u2019ve had no chance to do anything,\u201d said Clement. \u201cI&#8217;ve seen him play in those difficult weeks and games for all the team and all the squad before I came this season. So you see certain things.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;You see also things that he could do better &#8211; like everybody in the squad in that moment. I&#8217;m really curious about that, and it&#8217;s good he&#8217;s going to be back the beginning of pre-season, that we can test things also during the pre-season and to see where he can fit in.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWill it be competition for the nine position? Will it be in another position? He&#8217;s really versatile from the things that I saw. But then you get to know better the player\u2019s individual qualities, and also the person. That is a really, really, really important part in everything.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;But I heard a lot of good things about his personality and his work rate, and I&#8217;ve seen also in the games that he works hard for the team. I don&#8217;t have any questions about his character to be honest.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Crnac is part of a group of attacking options who have been unavailable for the run-in. The likes of Matej Jurasek (foot), Papa Amadou Diallo (quad) and Jovon Makama (foot) will all look to join Crnac back in the fold during pre-season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Oscar Schwartau was named Norwich City&#8217;s young player-of-the-season (Image: Paul Chesterton\/Focus Images Ltd)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Teenager Oscar Schwartau had been one of the main beneficiaries, in terms of game time, in a campaign that saw him crowned the club\u2019s young player-of-the-season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI&#8217;m mostly impressed about his age, because, okay, he is just becoming 20, but you feel you are talking with somebody who&#8217;s 24 or 25,\u201d said Clement. \u201cThe way he works, the way he&#8217;s picking up things, when we show him videos, when we talk about things, when we train on things, he is like a sponge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He takes in the information, but he keeps it also that you don&#8217;t need to repeat it a lot of times, and you see him evolving week by week, month by month, to become a better and better player.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI&#8217;m really curious, where is he ceiling? I think we&#8217;re so far away from that and that he will improve the next couple of years, and that he will become a really, really good player.\u201d\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u00a38.5m rated Croatian suffered a season-ending ACL knee injury after 11 Championship appearances, and has not featured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}