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Returning Coventry City defender Luis Binks has made a bold statement of intent, insisting a top two automatic promotion finish is ‘not out of our reach’.

The 22-year-old centre-back is now a fully fledged Sky Blue after Mark Robins upgraded his season-long loan from Italian club Bologna to a permanent deal this summer, joining for a fee understood to be €2m (£1.7m) and signing a four-year contract.

In an in-depth chat with the popular podcast 2 Brits 1 Yank, Binks was in conversation with Maidstone United pair Soloman Wanjau-Smith and Sam Bone, discussing everything from the ‘goose bumps’ he gets from the Sky Blue Army and ‘madness’ of City’s two FA Cup comebacks to being smashed by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and a tough night against Dries Mertens.

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Speaking about the first time he learned of City’s interest in him 12 months ago, he said: “I heard about Coventry and I knew it was a big club but I didn’t realise how big until I got there. My dad said they were a massive club but the age I was I only knew about them being in administration and using other grounds and stuff. But now the club is in a different place; there’s a new owner and when I heard they had come in for me I said, ‘yes, that’s where I want to go.”

Reflecting on his first 12 months at the CBS Arena, he said: “It was a good season. Obviously the Champ (ionship) is so relentless. Growing up watching it you think it is such a tough league but when you’re in it, you’re like, f***! You have three games a week, all different styles of play, different teams and travelling all over the country, but it’s a great league. I would say one of the top six leagues in the world.”

He added: “I think having no VAR definitely helps the league as well because it is a lot more free flowing. There are different styles of teams; as you could see last year with Leicester, who play good football, Ipswich – obviously a great team who play a different style of football – and then teams like Southampton, who play good football. And then you look at Millwall, Preston… It’s got everything in that league, and literally anyone can beat anyone.