Former Coventry City boss Gordon Strachan has offered his take on the club’s coaching restructure amid last month’s sudden and shock departure of assistant manager Adi Viveash.
The 67-year-old, who played for and then managed the Sky Blues in the Premier League during the mid to late 1990s, admits he was as surprised as the fanbase about the break-up of the management duo that had served the club so well over the last seven years.
Asked for his reaction to the dramatic change in backroom personnel and whether he thinks it is a cause for concern or a case of a fresh start with new coaches with new or different ideas and ways of working, he said: “I was surprised by the departure of Adi Viveash. Nobody really saw that coming, or at least that is what it looked like from outside the club.”
Speaking to CoventryLive via topoffshorecasinos, Strachan added: “It was such a perfect partnership between Adi and Mark Robins. Like all good partnerships, sometimes things can come to an end. It can happen, sometimes people can have enough.
“All that we know about the partnership between the two of them was that it was good. If it was Mark’s decision to end things, then you can’t question that because he gets most things right and has done since he’s been at the club.
“The only two people who will know (why they have decided to part ways) is Mark and Adi. The chemistry between them might be fading a wee bit, and sometimes you need a different voice in the dressing room as a manager and different ideas.
“The two of them together have been magnificent for Coventry. They have taken the club forward. The stadium is full again, there have been some unbelievable highs along the way. It’s been an excellent period if you’re a Coventry fan and their partnership has been fundamental to that success.”
