It’s still very much holiday time for many players but that doesn’t mean that Coventry City aren’t continuing to be busy behind the scenes as fans eagerly await to see how Mark Robins is going to strengthen and build his evolving squad over what is hoped to be an exciting 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 have already made their first signing with the arrival of winger Raphael Borges Rodrigues from Australian A-League club Macarthur FC for an undisclosed fee, joining fellow wide man Ephron Mason-Clark who has finally joined the club following City’s £4.25m deal with Peterborough United in January.
The 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.
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o 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. Kelly, 34, has wasted no time at all in getting himself sorted out, and last week joined newly-relegated Rotherham United in League One on a two year deal.
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.
The club have also released Under-21s Dermi Lusala and Bradley Stretton.
