The early stages of this summer window have been dominated by talk of experience and recruiting a different age of player than has become the norm in Stuart Webber's time at Norwich City.
Despite that being at the centre of the discourse, Norwich have plans to target a range of age profiles this summer in a bid to revamp their squad following a disappointing Championship campaign.
Webber, in his round of post-season media, admitted he was preparing to build his third team as City's sporting director. Within that, he has plenty of plates to spin and realignment to achieve.
For all the attention on adding experience and mentality this summer, Norwich's problems have partly involved the lack of mid-range aged players within their squad. Last season, they possessed nine players between the ages of 25 to 29 who featured on the pitch.
Todd Cantwell and Danel Sinani both departed in January. Milot Rashica left even earlier and Przemyslaw Placheta has been injured.
Angus Gunn played the most matches of that particular cohort with 32. Dimi Giannoulis was the next with 27.
Out of the top 12 players to play the most minutes for City during the last Championship campaign, only Gunn came from that mid-range group.
Kieran Dowell's season was interrupted by injuries. Sam Byram and Isaac Hayden likewise. Both players have moved on at the end of their respective deals, with the Newcastle loanee returning to his parent club.
That leaves Norwich with just four players in that age bracket - Placheta, Jacob Sorensen, Gunn and Giannoulis.
For all the talk of requiring experience, Norwich also need to add players in that peak age. It may provide one explanation as to why performances were so naive and desperate when City were without the likes of Grant Hanley, Kenny McLean and Ben Gibson - particularly when it came to responding to adversity.
The two youngest starting XIs they fielded arrived during that 3-0 Swansea defeat (23.8) and away at West Brom (23.9). Wagner bemoaned their inexperience and that judgment is partly fuelling this alteration in approach.
Attacking the free transfer market was always going to be the first pillar of their approach given the best players are snapped up early. Ashley Barnes was in receipt of multiple offers prior to agreeing City's two-year package.
At 33, Barnes is the oldest player City have signed permanently since defender Dejan Stefanovic in 2008. The Serbian defender was just two days older than the ex-Burnley forward when he joined from Fulham.
Reports over the weekend suggested that Norwich are courting experienced defender Shane Duffy, 31, to become the next part of their squad refresh.
The Irish international, if he did sign, would become the second player over 30 to join this summer and would double the amount of players in that age bracket to join the club since Stuart Webber's arrival in 2017.
Thirty-one is peak age for a central defender - but it's about balance, and Norwich will need to work hard to readdress that in this window.
Norwich actually had seven players over 30 in their squad last season. Michael McGovern and Teemu Pukki have both departed the club at the end of their contracts whilst Hanley is unlikely to feature before 2024.
That means City have effectively three slots to fill in that age range should they wish to carry as many experienced professionals. But given McGovern's influence came away from the pitch, Duffy may well conclude that element of their recruitment drive.
City will then need to add players to that mid-range section of their squad. The one that has been lacking and eaten away at during the campaign due to departures.
Conflating experience with age isn't always the best parallel to make. Those intangible qualities can be present in players of all ages - Christoph Zimmermann proved that when he first arrived at Norwich. Likewise, Sunderland reached the top six of the division whilst possessing the youngest squad.
It isn't as straightforward as signing a bunch of 30-plus-year-olds and expecting success. Webber and Wagner will know that.
Like anything, it is about balance. Norwich are walking a thin tightrope to address that lopsided nature of the squad is an important but delicate thing to strike this summer.
In part, this is down to young players not developing in the way that they should have done to bridge the gaps - that is partly down to the difficult environment and circumstance rather than ability.
Norwich need to construct a squad capable of allowing those players to make mistakes - that structure simply hasn't been present throughout the last campaign.
That balance is one they got so right in both Championship title-winning campaigns - Webber has proven himself capable of building a successful team having studied from Rodolfo Borrell, now Pep Guardiola's right-hand man at Manchester City, and Damien Comolli at Liverpool.
Within that need to balance the age profiles, they will need to inject energy, dynamism and quality. Webber and Wagner are also determined to bring an edge that has been absent in recent campaigns.
Work to do - and Norwich are pressing ahead rapidly with multiple irons in the fire.
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