- Norwich City ended the Championship season in ninth place.
- One of the club’s Player of the Season contenders played in goal.
- How each of Norwich’s goalkeepers performed in 2025/26.
Now that the 2025/26 Championship season is over, it is time to reflect on how Norwich City and Philippe Clement‘s players performed over the past nine months.
In this series, I will rate each and every member of the Norwich squad, even those who have since left the club, on how they performed in the recent campaign.
The first position that is going under the microscope to start this series is goalkeeper, with two players making competitive appearances in the sticks for the Canaries.
Louie Moulden: 5
The third-choice goalkeeper has become a bit of a specialist position in recent years, with Scott Carson gaining fame through his role at Manchester City during their dominant years.
Louie Moulden joined the Canaries last summer on a two-year contract after his deal with Premier League side Crystal Palace expired, knowing that he would be the third-choice at Carrow Road.
The 24-year-old ended the season without a single appearance in any competitive game for Norwich, but he did make the bench seven times.
He was also involved in the warm-ups, getting the other two Norwich goalkeepers ready for each and every match, and still played his part without getting onto the pitch.
Dan Grimshaw: 7
Despite being a second-choice goalkeeper signing, Dan Grimshaw was arguably one of Norwich’s most important signings last summer.
Too many times in the 2024/25 campaign, Johannes Hoff Thorup was let down by George Long’s performances as a stand-in when Angus Gunn was unavailable, which severely hurt the team’s results.
Grimshaw joined from Plymouth Argyle to take over that role and played six times in all competitions for Norwich.
The Canaries won four of the six matches that the English shot-stopper played in, and he kept a clean sheet and registered an assist in his only Championship outing against Oxford United.
Remarkably, Grimshaw ended the season with the same number of assists (one) as Jack Stacey, Amankwah Forson, and Mathias Kvistgaarden, and more assists than Pelle Mattsson and Jovon Makama.
The former Man City prospect has proven himself to be a huge upgrade on Long and a perfectly fine number two option for a Championship team.
Vladan Kovacevic: 8
Kenny McLean was recently crowned the club’s Player of the Season, but I saw more than a couple of supporters throw their vote towards Vladan Kovacevic.
Norwich signed the 28-year-old goalkeeper from Sporting for £2m last summer to replace Gunn, and he endured a difficult start to life at Carrow Road.
Early games against Millwall and Middlesbrough left some supporters questioning the signing after some soft goals conceded and several poor passes out from the back that created chances for the opposition.
After that early teething period, though, the former Sporting stopper showed why Ben Knapper was so keen to bring him in with a series of extraordinary saves.
Penalty saves against Portsmouth and Southampton in the first half of the season, obviously, stand out, but he also made some indescribably brilliant stops from open play.
Away at Wrexham, away at Blackburn, away at Charlton, and, more recently, at home to Derby all come to mind.
Kovacevic ended the season with 4.17 goals prevented, which means that he essentially saved four more goals than expected based on the xG of the shots against him, ranking seventh in the league.
For context, Gunn conceded 4.49 more than expected in the 2024/25 campaign for Norwich, as his shot-stopping let the team down under Thorup.
Big mad Vlad also ranked first among his peers for penalties saved (two) and second for punches completed (34), further illustrating how well he performed between the sticks.
He may not be everyone’s cup of tea, because there are the odd moments of madness or soft goals conceded, but Kovacevic was a brilliant signing for Norwich who proved his worth over the course of the season.
