Coventry City transfer state of play as summer transfer window opens
Coventry City transfer news from CoventryLive as Sky Blues reporter Andy Turner takes a look at how the summer is playing out so far
Coventry City’s players will be reporting back for pre-season in just a few short weeks when Mark Robins will be hoping the club’s summer transfer activity ramps up. The club are currently busy behind the scenes while fans eagerly await news on new signings to gauge how the manager 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 reactive to key losses, as it was 12 months ago when Viktor Gyokeres and Gustavo Hamer were lured away. Here is the latest transfer state of play at the club…
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. 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 and it’s understood that the player is currently weighing up his options amid plenty of interest from higher placed clubs.
The club have also released Under-21s Dermi Lusala and Bradley Stretton.
