It’s that time of year when Coventry City fans are eagerly waiting to see how Mark Robins is going to strengthen and build his evolving squad over what is expected to be a busy 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’ recruitment department is hoped to be more proactive in this transfer window, rather than more reactive to key losses, as it was 12 months ago when Viktor Gyokeres and Gustavo Hamer were lured away from the club. Here we look at the lastest transfer state of play at the club.
“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.”
So far two permanent senior players – midfielder and skipper Liam Kelly and goalkeeper Simon Moore – have left the club as their contracts come to an end this summer. A third player, Callum O’Hare, is expected to follow them out as a free agent unless he changes his mind and decides to take up City’s offer of a fresh contract. But that’s highly unlikely.
