Coventry City’s players will be reporting back for pre-season in just a few short weeks when Mark Robins will be hoping the club’s summer transfer activity ramps up. The club are currently busy behind the scenes while fans eagerly await news on new signings to gauge how the manager is going to strengthen and build his evolving squad over what is hoped to be an exciting summer of trading.
Although there won’t be as high a turnover of players as last summer, when 14 left and 10 came in, there are a number of positions to be filled by at least four departures we know about, while question marks remain over a number of other players who have a year left on their current deals.
The Sky Blues have already made their first signing with the arrival of winger Raphael Borges Rodrigues from Australian A-League club Macarthur FC for an undisclosed fee, joining fellow wide man Ephron Mason-Clark, who has finally joined the club following City’s £4.25m deal with Peterborough United in January.
The recruitment department is hoped to be more proactive in this transfer window, rather than reactive to key losses, as it was 12 months ago when Viktor Gyokeres and Gustavo Hamer were lured away. Here is the latest transfer state of play at the club…
What Doug King has said:
“Look, I want us to get promoted. I am an ambitious man and I look at everything properly and if we can get our squad built on from the foundations and nucleus we have today in a great way then we will get on with it. And we are on it right now, believe you me. I have got way too many calls coming my way. So we’re chatting about it and we’re on it.”
