David Wagner is earmarking big roles in his Norwich City revamp for Jon Rowe and Christos Tzolis.

Teenage wide player Rowe has not kicked a ball competitively this season due to injury after his Premier League breakthrough.

The 19-year-old is not expected to be a frontline option until next month following ankle surgery before Christmas.

While fellow wide player Tzolis is now back with his parent club after a knee ligament injury limited his loan impact at FC Twente.

Wagner likes what he sees as he maps out his strategy for the rest of this Championship season and beyond.

“Everything what I've seen and been told about Jon Rowe excites me, this is a truth,” said the German. “He is a very open character as well. If I meet him in the canteen, he looks in your eyes - something I really like as well - but now it's all about our performance department getting him back as quick as possible, in the best possible shape, so that he can follow our training regime without any issues.”

Wagner gave Tzolis a 20 minute run out in the 3-0 Burnley defeat, and revealed in the build up he is a player he had tracked long before he arrived at Carrow Road.

“I followed Christos when I was in Germany, so I know him for about three years. I always liked what I've seen,” he said. “But there is a difference between potential and quality. He has potential but he was not able to show his qualities so far.

"And it's up to up to me, and my backroom staff to help him, to support him, that he's able to show his quality consistently. He only turned 21 recently, which is still very, very young.

“One thing you should not underestimate is even last summer when he arrived he was 19, just turned, still a boy. So far in his career far everything went uphill, everything looked very easy.

"And then you come to England to the Premier League and maybe you think, ‘Okay, I can do this,’ but the quality all over the park in the big league is something else, and you come into a club which obviously struggled in the Premier League.

“The biggest thing is he was keen to come back here. He absolutely wanted to come back to join us to help us in this season. And I was very keen to have him here as well. Because, as I said, if you make a loan it makes only sense if that player gets a lot of minutes, and confidence because he's playing game in, game out and scoring goals.

"This wasn't the case at Twente. Now we can get our idea across as soon as possible and hopefully we can then improve him, and make him into the player which we all together think he can be.

“He needs time, for sure, because he's still very young. But he has potential and as I said, we have to make sure that this potential will turn into quality consistently.”