Liverpool loanee Kaide Gordon can still force his way into Norwich City’s frontline plans for Johannes Hoff Thorup.

The right-sided attacker was a deadline night summer arrival from the Reds on a season long loan, but the 20-year-old has started only one Championship game.

City boss Thorup indicated at Colney on Thursday any talk of cutting short his stint in January is premature.

“As long as he keeps having a good impact on the group, in terms of training level and also his personality,” said the Dane. “If he starts to be too frustrated about the whole situation, that, of course, is something we need to look at.

"But he's eager to learn, and I know he had a meeting with Glen (Riddersholm) the other night just to go through a lot of his situations and also his physical stats, and a lot of those things in the game that we need from him to be even better, for him to have more minutes. But he's eager to learn.

“He approached the coaches when he wants feedback, and that is good to see. As long as that's the mindset for him, then there's space for him in the group, and we can definitely keep on working with him.

"And as I said, with Callum (Doyle) previously, even though it's a loan player we treat him like he's one of ours. It's not like we prioritise some of the others more than him, no, if he's engaging with things that we do, and his mindset is open towards learning, then we definitely will spend all the time possible to help these players improve.”

Thorup highlighted at Colney City’s general attacking threat down their right flank needs work.

“It is an area of the game where I think we have struggled a little bit to find the right player for that position,” he said. “Now the last two games with Jack (Stacey) on the more offensive position on the outside it has given us more chance creation from the right side, where, I think, to begin with, in the season, it was mostly from the left side.

“We needed to open up for the right side as well. I don't think we're there yet, and I think we still have to work on some movements, and players, and how they work together to find the best combination for us up front.”