David Wagner will be in charge for Norwich City’s Championship trip to Cardiff City - after talks on his future that involved incoming sporting director Ben Knapper.

Wagner’s Carrow Road status was discussed by the club’s top brass following the recent away defeat at Sunderland.

Knapper was part of that dialogue while he spends time with his family, ahead of officially replacing Stuart Webber on November 27.

Reports Knapper’s start date is due to contractual issues around his Arsenal exit are wide of the mark.

Webber’s last game is expected to be QPR’s visit two days earlier, before Knapper takes complete control with no lengthy handover period.

Webber himself was a notable absentee from Sunday’s latest home defeat at Carrow Road. The sporting director is believed to have been in Brazil watching youth games and meeting officials, along with the club’s head of emerging talent Mariela Nisotaki.

Wagner insisted he would not resign, immediately after losing to Rovers, and City’s senior figures look set to use the international break to assess their options the other side of the Bluebirds’ trip.

A number of home fans turned on the head coach, the board and the absent Webber during the 3-1 Blackburn reverse.

“I understand the fan frustrations. But at the end of the day, the only thing I can say is we are trying everything, and we work tirelessly to turn this,” said the German. “If I now give explanations, and there is not only one reason, it only sounds like excuses.

"That we have big injury problems, since more or less the period when we started this negative run, with our strikers and now later on with Gunny (Angus Gunn) in the goal as well.

"Everybody knows this, but we are the guys who take responsibility, I am the man who takes the responsibility, and we are only the guys who can change it, and this is what we have not done.”

Wagner admits four straight league defeats is fuelling a growing clamour to change a head coach who appears to have run out of ideas.

“At the minute, for sure, that is how it looks like,” he said. “I said before (Blackburn) we wanted to be brave, we wanted to get in their faces and we wanted to press them high. We did this but in too many situations we didn't get our press right and then they were able to punish us.

"In the moments where we got it right, and we won the ball high up the pitch, we didn't execute opportunities into clear cut chances.

“Unfortunately, if you concede quite early it doesn't help you. In our situation you would like to be a front foot defending team, who likes to press the opponent's high up the pitch.

"I can't complain about the effort, the boys tried very hard until the final seconds, they wanted to change it but we were not clinical.”