A quick quiz question. List the highlights of Milot Rashica’s Norwich City career.

That swerving, deflected strike that brought his solitary Premier League goal for the club at Liverpool springs immediately to mind.

For a glorious 16-minute spell at Anfield 12 months ago City fans could dream of a famous win over the Reds that might have sparked an unlikely great escape.

Sadio Mane, Mo Salah and Luis Diaz ensured normal order was brutally restored, and Rashica’s landmark career slot was consigned to a footnote in what proved to be another inevitable descent.

His only other direct goal contribution, an FA Cup winner at Charlton, is surely for the anoraks or the ‘data geeks’ to coin a Dean Smith phrase.

When Smith was unable to extract any more than Daniel Farke had managed, in terms of an end product and an influence to match the price tag, then a tour of the Championship never seemed likely to suit either party.

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But Rashica appears to have found a receptive audience and a club who wish to renew the vows come this summer, and the end of a productive season long loan move to Galatasaray.

The Kosovan international could end up with a Turkish league title winner’s medal, and with it a shot at the early stages of next season’s Champions League. An enticing prospect the 26-year-old reportedly appears keen to explore further.

There has been a drip, drip of speculation since Rashica began to emerge as a frontline option for Gala over recent months.

Big-selling Turkish newspaper, Hurriyet, claimed on Tuesday officials from the Istanbul club will seek to offer €7m in future close season talks with Stuart Webber and the Canaries.

That presents potentially a dilemma and an opportunity for his parent club. David Wagner has not been afforded the chance to work at close quarters with a player you can be sure he knew all about from their shared spells in Germany.

But there is also an increasingly large financial shadow hanging over City’s summer refresh/rebuild (delete as applicable, and dependent to a large degree on league status).

It would seem reasonable to assume Wagner’s holding statement on Rashica, when questioned shortly after his arrival, still holds true. Park it until the summer and focus on the here and now.

On a footballing level, should the City boss engineer a route to and through the play-offs back to the Premier League then the plates might shift, and Rashica himself might view a second shot at the English top flight as unfinished business.

It was certainly the trump card that attracted him originally from Werder Bremen, and even though he has spoken positively about a successful loan move he also acknowledged the Premier League is the ultimate test for a player.

But if Wagner is unable to arrest what feels a lull in the intensity and momentum since that high watermark at Millwall then a parting would seem inevitable this close season.

Rashica needs a higher grade of football that the Championship. Norwich need funds. That much was spelt out in what was left unsaid in the club’s last set of published accounts.

Unless either the on going shift in the shareholder mix opened up a short term revenue tap from America, or a magic money tree has been planted among the vegetables and herbs at Colney then City’s self-sustainable model will remain the way forward.

Webber has overseen an innovative push into south American markets which brought dividends last summer in the signings of Gabby Sara and Marcelino Nunez.

But to repeat the feat this coming summer will require fresh chips to put on the table and, for Wagner, presumably a willingness to retain what he identifies as the core elements vital to his revamp.

That would appear to make Rashica a tradeable asset, given his absence for the majority of this campaign in the Football League.

Norwich may have to accept a hit on the original deal that brought the winger from Werder Bremen but these are different, challenging times.

Rashica was recruited as the headline capture in a lavish post-promotion outlay – by Norwich standards – designed to equip the squad with the resources to become a competitive Premier League entity.

Barring a spike in performance and results from here, beginning with Sheffield United’s weekend visit to Carrow Road, the landscape will look radically different in the upcoming summer transfer trading.

Then it could be time to cash out on Rashica.