When he went to the Sheep he was already a £1.5m player, he was already destined for a good career. I'm sure those 6 months up here made Norwich recall him early, safe in the knowledge he was ready for first team football.
We can't just sign every decent player who steps foot in Scotland sadly, by the time he got to Aberdeen he was already way out of our price range at the time but having said that I doubt he would have seen himself as a £20m full international in the EPL. Football is great, fair play to the lad.