Callum Doyle and Jose Cordoba can be Norwich City’s first choice central defensive pairing for Johannes Hoff Thorup.

The Canaries summer signings have yet to start a game together, with Cordoba held back following a busy summer on Copa America duty for Panama and Doyle only arriving on loan from Manchester City after featuring in their US pre-season tour.

Experienced duo Grant Hanley and Shane Duffy started the Championship opener at Oxford, but Thorup would have no problem pairing the left-footed Doyle and Cordoba together at the heart of his City backline.

“I think definitely there's a chance that we, in the future, will play with two left footed centre backs,” he said. “It's about the positions you have in front of them. You can move a little bit around with the midfield positions.

"The full back position can be more inverted in a side where you have a right-sided central defender that is left footed. Then you can step more into a midfield that drops a little bit to the side. You can easily work with that. But I think that it's going to be realistic for us.”

City brought in Anis Ben Slimane as a seventh senior signing on deadline day and completed a loan deal for Liverpool youngster, Kaide Gordon, in the closing hours of the window.

“We have a recruitment staff that been outstanding in this window, and had things prepared in more or less every situation,” said Thorup. “So that's top class, and then we have been trying to bring in as much quality as possible, still within the strategy; young, hungry players that are ready to perform for this club and but also ready to take the next step in their career.

"I think we've been doing well and maybe from the outside it seemed busy, but I should say from my side it's been what I expected, and I knew when I came here that we had a lot of good players, young players, talented players that definitely will be interesting for other clubs.”

City’s Saturday lunchtime trip to Coventry is a chance to pick up a first league win of the season.

“I want to win every game that we play. So if it's two games in a row where we haven't won, then I will be as frustrated as if it was one or five or whatever,” said Thorup. If we don't win it, I'll be annoyed. I'll be frustrated.

"We have to go back and look at how we can be even better, but it's the same feeling, it doesn't matter if it's five games or 10 or whatever in a row. We just have to make sure that when we are out there, we're there to win.”