Norwich City’s new head coach Johannes Hoff Thorup will be the first to admit he is not the finished article.

The 35-year-old has enjoyed a meteoric rise through the academy coaching ranks, before an eyecatching 17 month spell in charge at Danish top flight club FC Nordsjaelland.

Thorup has now backed himself to get the Canaries into the Premier League, after replacing David Wagner at Carrow Road this summer.

“It's an on-going process being a football coach. And I'm not even close to being done,” he said. “So, so many things to learn, but, of course, especially when I arrived in Nordsjælland I found out the most important thing about being a football coach is the planning, is the structure, it's knowing where you want to go, and the method to get there. So you can play the way you want.

“That requires a lot of preparation, requires a lot of analysis, a lot of talks with the players, a lot of hours. That's a big part of it. But I have learned a lot, and I will still continue to learn because that's also the way that I'm curious and, and some will say, maybe never really satisfied.

“There's always room for improvement. There's always details to dig into, so we can become as good as possible.”

Thorup will get his first chance to work with his new players on the Colney training pitches from Monday, but the Dane insists it will not come as a culture shock to his squad.

“I will not say so. Of course, there'll be differences,” he said. “We have to keep on building on some of the good stuff that has already been done here. I'm comfortable. I see players that are on a great level.

“I see a lot of players that are comfortable on the ball, they want to go forward, they want to attack, they have a high technical level. There will be changes, of course, and we will play in a little bit different way, but I don't think it'll be that big a change from the beginning.

“From everything I do within coaching, we start with the ball. That's always how I see it. So everything we do goes around what we do with the ball, our positions, how we can be attacking in our mindset. It is always the ambition to score that next goal in the game.

“But doing that we need to be dominant on the ball, we need to be comfortable on the ball, we need to have great solutions to open up defences, so we can create chances, so we can score goals. That's the headlines and then of course, with more details into that.”