Philippe Clement has already changed the mood at Norwich. By his third outing, the 52-year-old had delivered the club’s first home victory of the season against QPR, a result that mattered because Norwich had come to him with only nine points from 15 games and a place second from bottom.
That is why Mcginn Scotland is being searched now: Clement arrived in November 2025 with Norwich in trouble and has quickly put a result on the board. The win over QPR was not just any home victory. It ended eight straight home defeats and gave supporters at Carrow Road something they had not had for most of the season — a reason to believe the slide could stop.
Clement made plain that he wanted the work to be collective. He said he had been in difficult situations before and had seen results improve when a group pulled together, adding that this was about the club, the players and everybody together, not his CV. That tone matched the task in front of him. Norwich needed more than a speech. They needed a reset in rhythm, and the numbers made that clear long before QPR arrived.
The first signs were not smooth. Shortly after his unveiling, Norwich were beaten 4-1 at St Andrews, and in his first home game they were denied by a late Oxford leveller. Those moments mattered because they showed how fragile the turnaround still was. One win did not erase the scale of the problem, but it did show that the team had begun to respond after a spell in which even a decent afternoon had become hard to find.
The broader backdrop reaches back to 2021, when Daniel Farke left Norwich City and the club entered another uneasy stretch. Clement’s arrival was framed as a practical attempt to halt that drift, and his early return on the pitch suggests the appointment has at least changed the direction of travel. What remains unresolved is how far that lift can carry Norwich, because the real test is not whether one difficult spell can be interrupted, but whether the improvement can be made durable.
