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EX NORWICH STRIKER REVEALS HE TIPPED CLUB OFF ABOUT GOW

Alan Gow

Thursday June 26,2008

By Scott Burns

KEVIN DRINKELL would love to see Alan Gow make the move to Norwich because he told his former club to go and sign him 18 months ago.

The former Carrow Road legend gave Peter Grant a glowing report about the Falkirk playmaker last year and he made a move to sign him on a Bosman but lost out when Gow decided to join his boyhood heroes.

Glenn Roeder has now stepped into the Norwich hotseat and, as Express Sport revealed, they had a £250,000 offer accepted for the Ibrox outcast on Tuesday night.

I know it would be a big wrench for Alan to leave Rangers but he has to do what is best for his career and who is to say he won’t get back there one day

Kevin Drinkell

The 25-year-old flew down to East Anglia to open talks and Drinkell believes going to Norwich would be the perfect destination for the out-of-favour striker to get his career back on track.

The former Rangers star believes Gow, who turned down a move to Burnley last week, would shine in the Championship, with a team who adopt his total football approach and who play in front of 25,000 plus crowds every other week.

“I’m sure Alan will have a lot of options in the Championship and the SPL but for me Norwich would be the best option, Drinkell insisted.

“They have been tracking him for some time, even before Glenn Roeder became manager. They tried to get him before he went to Rangers in the first place.

“It was when Peter Grant was still in charge. I am still well-connected at Norwich and they asked me my thoughts on the player and if I thought he would make an impact in the Championship.

“At that time, I said that I thought he would be a good signing who would do well for them.

“I even spoke to Alan about Norwich but he decided to go to Rangers.

“You can’t blame him for taking the decision to join Rangers.

“They were his boyhood heroes and I’m sure before he made the move he would have been told he would get his chance to stake a claim in the first-team.

“I know it would be a big wrench for Alan to leave Rangers but he has to do what is best for his career and who is to say he won’t get back there one day.”

“What Alan needs just now is to play football. He has to go out and play games and to get people talking about him again.”

Drinkell has played for both sides and reckons that if you are not playing for one of the Old Firm then a club like Norwich is a decent alternative.

He said: ‘I know the feeling up here is that going to a Norwich or Burnley is see as a step backwards.

“But they are both big clubs and I wouldn’t say they were both bigger clubs than anything outside the Old Firm up here.

“Norwich, for example, haven’t had great fortunes in the last few years but they have a great stadium and facilities and still average around 25,000 at every home game.

“They are also a well-run family club and I don’t think Alan will have too many problems settling down there.”