The 35-year-old Dane added: “The FA have decided this is the way they want to go.
“They have opened a door where they can go back in time and take decisions like that and even on gamedays they can present the news to the teams. It’s a completely different world to us.
“Everyone was [surprised] but I can’t go into details – Big Brother is watching and that’s how it is.”
Norwich will now be without McLean for Sunday’s visit of Burnley, a trip to Sunderland on 21 December and the home game against Millwall on 26 December.
He will be available for the return with QPR on 29 December.
Losing McLean forced Thorup into changing his plans for Fratton Park with Chilean Marcelino Nunez brought in to the side – something the Norwich boss said was “not ideal”.
“I don’t think I’m giving away too much of our preparation to say Kenny was part of it,” Thorup said.
“But at three o’clock we needed to change that and change the line-up and bring a player – Marcelino – on to the pitch, which was not ideal for us because he’s had an injury and it’s not ideal for him to play another game so close to Saturday.
“But that’s the way it is. It’s not the way I’m used to working. It’s a new world to me and I just have to accept it.
“I think it’s a surprise to everyone working with professional footballers in a professional environment that things like this can happen.”
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