On Thursday, Luxemburger Wort announced after briefly speaking with Danel Sinani that the forward would be joining Norwich City on a three-year contract.
The player simply said everything was done, and once the season was over, regardless of whether the Canaries get relegated from the Premier League or not, he would be moving to Carrow Road to take on a new challenge.
While the original article might not have provided a lot of detail, Le Quotidien decided to go out of their way and get a longer interview with the F91 Dudelange star, which they achieved and published on Friday.
With the Covid-19 outbreak currently holding football hostage, Sinani wasn’t able to complete his transfer in a normal manner, so the outlet asked him how all parties navigated around the new hurdles and whether it was frustrating to not get the whole red carpet treatment usually reserved to new player unveilings.
He said: “I simply signed the contract and sent everything back in the post. To me, signing, getting a shirt and putting all that on social media isn’t what’s important. At least, going on Facebook and telling everyone I’ve signed, that’s not my goal”.
As for why he chose Norwich when many other clubs were knocking at his door, the winger revealed it was a joint decision.
He explained: “We talked about it with my family, but you just need to watch Premier League matches on the TV to see the intensity. Look at all the games: you obviously progress very quickly. If you want to develop, you need to be in England. That’s clear.
“I’m happy to end up in this league because it’s not easy to get into it. It’s the best league in the world so I didn’t have to think about it for long. As soon as it was concrete with Norwich, I quickly knew it was worth it”.
Sinani explained the Canaries were already looking at him last year, but with F91 Dudelange playing in the Europa League this season, it gave them a chance to ‘analyse my profile in more detail’.
He also revealed he visited Norwich’s infrastructures earlier on this year because they ‘really wanted’ to sign him in January, but that didn’t come to fruition.
As for Daniel Farke, his likely manager next season, he said: “I’ve met him. He explained a few things to me, showed me how he works, but where he plays me, how and why, that’s up to me to show him. He has one or two years left on his deal, so it’ll be with him.
“They’re last. These things happen, and yes, there’s a chance they could go down, but they’ll rebuild a team to go straight back up”.
