The arrival of Jack Rudoni has caused much excitement among Coventry City fans – the 23-year-old joining from Huddersfield Town where he was one of the Terriers’ key players.
It’s fair to say that Coventry City sports presenter Rob Gurney shares that enthusiasm for the latest Sky Blues’ summer signing, who has joined the club for an ‘undisclosed’ fee, understood to be slightly north of £4m, with add-ons that could take it closer to £5m.
So what’s all the fuss about? Rob – part of BBC CWR’s excellent radio sports commentary team that covers Mark Robins’ men every week – breaks into a chuckle and explains: “Well, just because he’s exactly the sort of player the Sky Blues need in midfield. His set-pieces are a feature of his game, although I know they weren’t particularly great in the Huddersfield match against us on Good Friday, but I have seen him several times and it’s just his movement on the ball, his range of pass…
“A lot of the time his set-pieces are decent and he’s the right age, 23, and I think there is more growing to do in his development, having stepped up from Wimbledon to Huddersfield, and now onto City. Adi Viveash and Mark Robins have a record of bringing players on and improving them, and I think he will be another case in point. He’s fairly decent in the tackle, although that’s not a huge feature of his game because that’s more about the creative side of things.”
As for where he sees him fitting into the City team, whether he sees him as a number ten or more as a box-to-box eight, the life-long Sky Blues fan said: “It’s interesting and it’s probably one of the attractions of him, that flexibility to do both. I remember both Robins and Viveash were talking to him at the end of that Good Friday match, so I think things were put in motion fairly quickly.
“But I think it’s that versatility to play as an eight or a ten that makes him such an attractive proposition really.”
