David Wagner can count on support from incoming sporting director Ben Knapper to spark a Norwich City revival.

Wagner revealed Knapper had offered him his full backing in recent days, ahead of officially replacing Stuart Webber after this weekend’s Championship trip to Cardiff.

The German has found himself under mounting pressure from fans following eight defeats in 11 league games.

“We've spoken about the situation, obviously as well from a distance he was able to look and understood it quite well from the outside,” said Wagner. “He said, ‘Come on, keep going. You have all the support’, which I feel from all sides to be fair.

"I know we have a very difficult period in terms of the results. No one is happy. It's not what we expect from ourselves. We know that we have to do better, but I feel the backing from everywhere. I've spoken with him a few times. He’s a good guy, a good character.

“Ben will be in next week for the first time and we will, for sure, meet in the international break. I am in constant touch with him. I spoke with him yesterday, or the day before yesterday, by phone.

"For all of us it's to look forward and to welcome Ben, and make it as easy as possible for him. A big job after what he has achieved at Arsenal, but I am really looking forward to work with him, and to give him all my support which he may need at the beginning. I know how it is if you come into a new environment.”

Wagner insisted his own future had not been discussed with City’s top brass this week, after a personal phone call from soon to be joint minority shareholders Delia Smith and Michael Wynn Jones, along with executive director Zoe Webber's public backing in her Blackburn programme notes.

“No, no, they are discussions about how we were able to come to this situation, and what we can do to go out of this as quickly as possible,” he said. “That my position maybe is not as strong as it was eight weeks before, this is clear as well, because this depends on results.

"And nobody knows what happens in six weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks time. If you look back nine weeks, it looked totally different. And it's our responsibility to turn it back to where we were a few weeks ago.

“What's the meaning of 'reassurance'? I'm in this business a long period. I know we all together are desperate to change this, and we all together need results. Me as a manager, as well, as part of this group.

“It's great to be in a football club with good people who look around the corner, who look forward, who are very progressive. And this is now how they react in a difficult period - exactly how I hoped and how I expected.

"Obviously I’d like to pay back that support as quick as we can. But it's good that the people who takes responsibility can see the big picture. We are very close together in this football club.

“This is the first thing which you have to produce; that we are tied together and pulling in the same direction. This is exactly what we do in in every department as a whole football club.”