CoventryLive provides Coventry City transfer news while Sky Blues owner Doug King talks about the team’s intentions for the mid-term trade window.
Doug King says he will aim to solve Coventry City’s midfield problems by being “bold” in the January transfer window. The owner of the Sky Blues claims to be fully aware of the necessity to bolster the team in the wake of star player Gustavo Hamer’s departure and the difficulty of bringing in replacements to assist cover the vacuum.
Ben Sheaf, Liam Kelly, and Jamie Allen’s injuries haven’t helped City’s position, and they obviously need a dynamic, box-to-box midfielder with Hamer’s qualities. When asked if supporters should anticipate the same degree of spending during the January transfer window as they did during the summer, when the team spent about £20 million on eleven new players, King responded, “Wow!”
The City manager continued, “January is obviously shorter than the summer window,” at a BBC CWR fans’ discussion. Let’s talk about what we sold and what we paid. Everyone has made assumptions. We made some significant summertime investments. Of course, I am aware of the midfield position, and we are working on it. We’ll probably be brave and get involved if we find the right kind of deal that works for us with the right kind of player.
But until something is clear, it’s never clear in my mind. You simply need to keep working and doing your task, and we’ll focus on that if something comes up that you believe is the appropriate value for the circumstance. However, it won’t be the same as the summer.
When the studio audience asked Mark Robins whether it was true that he would prefer one or two more players in January, he responded, “Well, I think what’s important to state is that we’re all together in it.” As a pair, we don’t do anything. We all know where everything is and there’s a sense of unity, which I believe is incredibly important since everyone needs to be in agreement. Additionally, everyone is in agreement.
“We weren’t aiming to get a midfielder in the summer for no reason at all. We attempted to bring in players, but we were unable to cross that boundary. I am aware of how hard everyone fought to get that over, with eleven people entering and fourteen leaving the line and to finalise that business.
“And however later it was than we would have liked, it was really important that we did it. It could have been a lot different. We could have kept some of what we had got and tried to do it slower, but that isn’t what we needed to do.
“What we needed to do is what we’ve done and have a real go at bringing the depth and quality in. It means we now don’t have to do the amount of business we have done for a while, but I think things will evolve. And we’re still working towards what we’re going to do in the next transfer window, as you’d expect.
“And there are some exciting players out there that we might be able to do something. We might not be able to do something but it won’t be for the want of trying. But we want to move this forward as quickly as we possibly can do for everybody; for us, for you (the fans).
“And when people talk about failing to go up this summer, really we are starting this process again. It’s the start of another process but it’s a different process this time. It’s a new era, there is no doubt. The feel of the stadium, for instance, is totally different and it feels like ours; feels like we’re going to our stadium, which is fantastic.
“But all the things have been put in place, the training facilities have improved no end. Those are the things that start to blossom over a little bit of time. You can attract better players just through that. But the attractive way that we play, as well, although we have still got a long way to go, there’s no doubt, but the way that we play is sustainable. And that’s the biggest thing for me because we can build on that.”
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