Mark Robins drops Coventry City transfer hint as manager makes admission
Coventry City transfer news from CoventryLive as Sky Blues boss admits there’s something missing from his squad
Mark Robins has dropped a rare transfer hint as Coventry City fans eagerly await news on the club’s next new summer signings.
So far the Sky Blues have added three new faces in Raphael Borges Rodrigues, Luis Binks and Jack Rudoni to add to January capture Ephron Mason-Clark, while they are understood to have bid for Hammerby goalkeeper Oliver Dovin.
Mark Robins drops Coventry City transfer hint as manager makes admission
With the departure of Matty Godden to Charlton Athletic this week, meanwhile, it leaves City’s dressing room even shorter on experienced bodies as well as a striker down. A new goal scorer, and someone different in style to last season’s leading scorers Haji Wright and Ellis Simms, is likely to be a transfer priority.
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The manager commented at the back end of last season that his squad lacked leaders and experienced characters in the mould of Kyle McFadzean following the January departure of the centre-half to Blackburn Rovers, and said he wanted to replace those qualities this summer.
With fellow elder statesman Liam Kelly and Simon Moore joining Godden out of the exit door in recent months, goalkeeper Ben Wilson and full-back Jake Bidwell are the club’s only 30-somethings left. City’s transfer policy is, in general, to recruit young players with development potential who will go on to have a healhty re-sale value.
Asked by CoventryLive if he’s still looking to add that experience, character and leadership he previously talked about, Robins – who has been extremely tight-lipped about transfer business in recent months – said: “I think we have to wait and see. We have a profile and we have to go with that because that’s a club-wide thing not just a personal preference.
“I think we probably need a bit more experience but then those players who were with us last year have got another year on their backs, so they have been there for 12 months and know what things are about. And hopefully they will benefit from that experience, and I am looking for people to step up and step into roles that have been vacated by others.
