Sheffield Utd boss Heckingbottom: Norwich now the model to follow | OneFootball

Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom admits Norwich City are the benchmark after their relegation was confirmed in defeat to Wolves.

Heckingbottom says following Norwich's lead and pushing for instant promotion back into the Premier League must be the target.

He said, "Norwich have had a clear way of how they want to achieve things, recruiting developing players, recruited a manager to play a certain way and they have good players in their 11 and I like that approach - that's good management and direction

"Every club can do that, but the skill is doing that because it's harder in practice to do it than just writing it down on paper."

Asked about keeping the squad together, he added: "Yeah, but if you look where this journey started, it was in the middle of League One, but now we are starting from a better place - a level playing field in the Championship

"Keeping players together is important, there will be some losses because of out of contract players and the fee some teams are willing to pay for them, but the key is to keep the rest together and then add to that."