Norwich City chairman Alan Bowkett says they're ready to step up their academy plans.

Bowkett also revealed at last night's AGM that Norwich intend to revamp their Academy to bring it in line with new Premier League guidelines, hopefully to help unearth home-grown talent.

"The rule of thumb in terms of Category One status is that you have to spend £2million per year in youth development," Bowkett said.

"You receive from the Premier League roughly £750,000 in contributions. That would still be four times the amount we currently spend.

"Our aim is to try and produce one young player for the first team every year.

"Paul is very much of the firm view, and this goes back to his experiences in Germany, that if we are to compete then we have to have our own young, hungry players."