Forget about the tekover ....

[Sky Blues]

Coventry will do very well - good manager and good players , my outside tip for autos

Would like to think so but it's a long hard season. Will have a much better idea after 6 games or more.

Robins is the only reason we are where we are now. He sees things in players nobody else does. Take Gyokeres. On loan to Swansea he didn't do well. Then Brighton loaned him to us. Didn't play well at first. We then signed him for 1m which was the most we had spent on a player for about 20 years. We thought Robins had lost the plot but the rest is history. Even Brighton didn't see it and that is what they are best at.

I respect Wilder and when Robins finally leaves he would be my choice of replacement. With a good manager you always have a chance.

 

[Yoonited]

O'Hare was supposed to be leaving for a Prem side. There just wasn't any takers. But with Rudoni as his replacement we are now quite happy. He is a very good player when in form but he gets targeted by opponents and doesn't seem to get much protection from the refs.

I took the takeover needing to happen off here and bringing in freebies.

Good luck also and hope you trounce the tramps up the road. The racism that came from them last season showed their true colours.

Some of our fans can be less than optimistic at timesThough I don't think it's any different elsewhere,but that's why these forums exist so we can try adding some rationale

Your comments re the S6 lot are well observed.

We shut the fuckers up well n truly on the now famous "bouncing day".

Here's to more of the same this season.

I'll watch Rudoni with added interest

 

[Sky Blues]

Preston beat Liverpool in a friendly the other week, I wonder if their fans think they’ll win the league on the back of it?!

Get back to blowing whistles, throwing tennis balls and wishing you still had John Fleck.

I'll try and help you.

Look back. I said hopefully in the top 6. You say I said champions?

Or how about 2 strikers that hardly got a goal by the end of the year and ending up on 19 each. Or how about signing WBA's top scorer as our reserve striker? Or adding players like Rudoni who looks quality and yet another player over 6'.

My top 2 at the moment are Leeds and Luton. But with the transfer window open for nearly another month there will be a lot happening between now and then. We're a selling club. Always have been and always will be. We have quite a lot of interest in some of our players and if our valuation is met they will be sold. Just like Hamer being sold last season after the season was underway. The exact thing could well happen to yourselves.

 

[Houston_Blade]

I'll try and help you.

Look back. I said hopefully in the top 6. You say I said champions?

Or how about 2 strikers that hardly got a goal by the end of the year and ending up on 19 each. Or how about signing WBA's top scorer as our reserve striker? Or adding players like Rudoni who looks quality and yet another player over 6'.

My top 2 at the moment are Leeds and Luton. But with the transfer window open for nearly another month there will be a lot happening between now and then. We're a selling club. Always have been and always will be. We have quite a lot of interest in some of our players and if our valuation is met they will be sold. Just like Hamer being sold last season after the season was underway. The exact thing could well happen to yourselves.

Well done, congratulations on being so amazing. I hope it works out for you like it hasn’t since Steve Ogrizovic was a lad.

 

[Not_a_Cheat]

Sounds like you have it all figured out!

Whereas back in the real world, it’s a lot more complicated than that. Selling a player for £5m doesn’t mean you can buy a player for £5m and it’s even. Agents’ fees, signing on fees, wages, sell-on clauses and a dozen other things have to be taken into account (before we even start factoring the drop in income).

Name 11 out of the dozen in the real world

 

[Not_a_Cheat]

I think that's guesswork. United can bring in loans and/or one or two to fill the gaps. There's also the possibility of one or two huge sales and big reinvestment at this level (Anel, Souza, Hamer, Anel, Arblaster). The squad is the bigger issue now rather than the team (keeper aside). Depth.

It's worth knowing that Chris Wilder took United up last time with a bottom six wage budget and only three players that cost over 500k (Lundstram 700k, Norwood 1.2m, Egan 3.5m) after reinvesting some of the David Brooks money. He also won League 2 with bankrupt Northampton who weren't even paying their players - he has form for miracles. We also have a few bright young things that could step up that are probably going under the radar.

I wouldn't dare to make an assessment until the end of the window tbh.

So good we can sell Anel twice. New York, new York

 

[Houston_Blade]

If we are losing or it’s 0-0 on 70 minutes against QPR it’ll be very tense.

It’ll be even more when we look to the bench and see a load of kids!

I don't think he looked pissed off at all, obviously there's work to do on the squad and it's not exactly where it needs to be at this stage, he was honest about it and that's as much as he gave away, nothing more nothing less.

Making out he's seething underneath and that he was biting his tongue etc etc is just made up negative bollox. You lot will jump on to anything you can to have a pop, but Wilder knows where we are and he's doing a good job of building a team in difficult circumstances.

He mentioned that we should have done business sooner and seems to trot out the “when premier league clubs come calling” line as a defence of what we’ve done.

Seemed more exasperated than pissed off.

 

[Sky Blues]

Well done, congratulations on being so amazing. I hope it works out for you like it hasn’t since Steve Ogrizovic was a lad.

You do tell a good story........so how did you come to the conclusion that we're amazing?

Did you enjoy losing more games than you won last season? It isn't a good place to be. When we got relegated from the Prem we expected to get back up. We had been there for 36 years and had not once finished in the top 6. We won the FA cup in 87 as you will know if old enough but nothing else at all. By the time we ended up in League 2 we still hadn’t finished in the top 6 of any division for nearly 50 years.

But since then it has been FUN. Robins has been with us since then. Won the tinpot trophy in our relegation season. Finished 5th in our first season in League 2 Celebrated 5th as much as winning the playoffs final. We have finished higher every season until last season. But we did get to penalties against Luton so only promotion last season would have battered it. But beating Wolves in the QF at their place then going as close as you can get to beating Manchester United in the SF made up for that.

Give me these years above being in the top flight but getting hammered most of the time for 36 years any day.

 

[Houston_Blade]

You do tell a good story........so how did you come to the conclusion that we're amazing?

Did you enjoy losing more games than you won last season? It isn't a good place to be. When we got relegated from the Prem we expected to get back up. We had been there for 36 years and had not once finished in the top 6. We won the FA cup in 87 as you will know if old enough but nothing else at all. By the time we ended up in League 2 we still hadn’t finished in the top 6 of any division for nearly 50 years.

But since then it has been FUN. Robins has been with us since then. Won the tinpot trophy in our relegation season. Finished 5th in our first season in League 2 Celebrated 5th as much as winning the playoffs final. We have finished higher every season until last season. But we did get to penalties against Luton so only promotion last season would have battered it. But beating Wolves in the QF at their place then going as close as you can get to beating Manchester United in the SF made up for that.

Give me these years above being in the top flight but getting hammered most of the time for 36 years any day.

Last season was terrible, however the season before we got promoted and had Ndiaye in the team, it was amazing. We managed to play at Wembley in an FA cup semi as well.

We’ve had 3 promotions in recent history and a 9th place PL finish.

You apparently won the FA cup when I was 3 and were a boring PL team famous for having an old goalie and Dion Dublin when I was growing up.

Pardon me if I don’t think we should be paying too much attention to what you think about what makes a decent football club. You didn’t even get promoted when Gyokeres scored 150 goals the other season, he left, like most of your decent players do!

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Last season was terrible, however the season before we got promoted and had Ndiaye in the team, it was amazing. We managed to play at Wembley in an FA cup semi as well.

We’ve had 3 promotions in recent history and a 9th place PL finish.

You apparently won the FA cup when I was 3 and were a boring PL team famous for having an old goalie and Dion Dublin when I was growing up.

Pardon me if I don’t think we should be paying too much attention to what you think about what makes a decent football club. You didn’t even get promoted when Gyokeres scored 150 goals the other season, he left, like most of your decent players do!

In fairness I wish we had decent players like Gyokeres and Hamer leaving on good fees, rather than every player we've spent a fee on in the last five years walking away on a free.

Coventry have an outstanding recruitment team. What's behind it? A director of football, like every other club who do well in transfer windows.

We're an amateur shitshow in comparison.

 

[Houston_Blade]

In fairness I wish we had decent players like Gyokeres and Hamer leaving on good fees, rather than every player we've spent a fee on in the last five years walking away on a free.

Coventry have an outstanding recruitment team. What's behind it? A director of football, like every other club who do well in transfer windows.

We're an amateur shitshow in comparison.

They only got close to what we got for Ndiaye though. They might profit in future though as he’s scored a lot of goals again and might get a big move back to a PL club and I assume they have a sell on.

 

[Sky Blues]

They only got close to what we got for Ndiaye though. They might profit in future though as he’s scored a lot of goals again and might get a big move back to a PL club and I assume they have a sell on.

As I posted to what you replied to yes we have a sell on clause on both Gyokeres and Hamer.

We have heard that we recently got 2.5m for taking it from 15% of any profit to 10%. With Hamer it is 10% of any fee received. It looks like we used the 2.5m to get Thomas-Asante from WBA. That's why we made a last minute bid on him.

 

[Sky Blues]

In fairness I wish we had decent players like Gyokeres and Hamer leaving on good fees, rather than every player we've spent a fee on in the last five years walking away on a free.

Coventry have an outstanding recruitment team. What's behind it? A director of football, like every other club who do well in transfer windows.

We're an amateur shitshow in comparison.

Most of it is down to Robins. He took over a side close to going out of business when he came back. He left us to go to Huddersfield but they expected an instant upturn. He only came back when the hedge fund that ruined our club agreed to let him be in charge of the budget. Through his transfer deals we went from free signings and then selling for a small amount to being able to spend 1m on a couple of players. The most we had spent for about 20 years.

Hamer was always decent but got booked frequently with red cards too often. He turned him around.

Gyokeres was another 1m signing where most thought he lost the plot. But a year later all the working with him paid dividends.

 

[Houston_Blade]

As I posted to what you replied to yes we have a sell on clause on both Gyokeres and Hamer.

We have heard that we recently got 2.5m for taking it from 15% of any profit to 10%. With Hamer it is 10% of any fee received. It looks like we used the 2.5m to get Thomas-Asante from WBA. That's why we made a last minute bid on him.

 

[William Large]

Last season was terrible, however the season before we got promoted and had Ndiaye in the team, it was amazing. We managed to play at Wembley in an FA cup semi as well.

Whilst I agree with much of what you say, the pedant in me has to point out that although in the end we were promoted fairly comfortably, it was far from amazing.
I think most will agree that we were pretty average to watch with the odd exception.
The semi final was again an odd affair as everyone knew we had no chance. Not because it was City, but because as an attacking force we were pretty abject and relied heavily on Iliman.
I take the Cov supporters point that those years in the top tier were no way near as exciting as when they reached the bottom and started to work their way up.
The problem is that when you have reached your ‘top level’ (whoever you are) it’s never as good as the climb to get there.

 

[Silent Blade]

You do tell a good story........so how did you come to the conclusion that we're amazing?

Did you enjoy losing more games than you won last season? It isn't a good place to be. When we got relegated from the Prem we expected to get back up. We had been there for 36 years and had not once finished in the top 6.

You did in 1970

 

[Sky Blues]

You did in 1970

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Was only 2 then

That was 54 years ago. So sorry, it was a 48 year wait to get a top 6 finish

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Soz Blades, but I’m starting to get another feeling of immense foreboding…Cheers me up with a dose of common sense please.

 

[BangorBlade]

Having read this in the Sun on Sunday sounds like PA is trying to collapse the takeover...intresting

 

[blade too long]

in the land of the free transfer
and the home of the blades

 

[ZLB]

Hear me out a bit...

If we can Sell Souza for 10-15m (lets face it, he's not that good and I don't think CH suits him at all), Osula for the same 10-15m + 20% of any future fee should be do well (25+ games not a single senior goal, if it meant we could get some bodies in I'm all for it) - Then we may be able to offload Coulibaly which may net us a bit of money on top

Thats 20m minimum, potentially 30m lets just go half way and say we make 25m off both. We could quite easily bring in 5 players with the sales money whilst also putting some to the shortfall from relegation.

Cooper - 3m
Gilchrist - Loan
Souttar - Loan
Hoever - Loan
Cannon - Loan
Dozzell - Free
A Striker - 5-7m

Possibly put some options to buy in Jan/End of season on the loans

That gives us 7 potential players for two outgoings, and overall I would class us as being stronger overall. The good thing about the Championship is, you don't just need a squad full of world beaters, you need consistency and depth aswell and this business would tick all the boxes.

Then once the takeover goes through (if it does) we can look in January and go out and pay for some very strong additions (if it is believed the board want to invest)

I stopped hearing it out after ‘Souza is not that good’.

 

[BiggerBladeThanThou]

I stopped hearing it out after ‘Souza is not that good’.

It was a common thought back in July.

 

[marsh blade]

Did you read the last line?

We have our best squad for about 30 years but still need the results on the pitch.

I would hope that we will be 6th or higher. But we do have reasons to be more confident of this. At about January we were wondering if our main strikers could get 20 goals between them. They ended up with 19 each. If they start this season as they finished the last one anything is possible. Our American striker got injured after just a few minutes in a 'tasty friendly' in Spain. He will be back in about a week. Simms is scoring for fun again. Was very unlucky to only get 1 against his old side Everton.
Not going very well is is cov

We were also a side that lacked height and strength. Rudoni looks an upgrade on O'Hare and is nearly a foot taller. Mason-Clarke who we signed in January but they kept him until the end of the season for a reduction of 1m of the transfer fee is a right beast. His goal against Everton showed us what he is about. Their defender ran into him but bounced off him and didn't put him off in the slightest. We won't get bullied by sides like Preston this season.

 

[marsh blade]

Coventry are ripping it up , best squad for 30 years !!