Adams Player Search
Last updated : 23 February 2006 By Covsupport
Micky Adams has been talking about the players he would like for next season.
Said the City boss to the CET: "We want to start attracting younger players into the football club but younger players cost money. "That's the problem we have always had because we have never had an amount of cash to go out to spend on promising youngsters or players in their early 20s.
"Because of the financial state of the football club we have only been able to attract a certain type of player, but hopefully that will change. "I won't know what players are out there for us until I know what the budget is, but between now and the end of the season I will be sitting down with Geoffrey Robinson, Paul Fletcher and the board and talking about where we go from here. "We have stabilised the club and we are not in the same sort of bother we were last year.
"Throughout the season I am always identifying players and making lists of people who may be available and agents are now ringing on a daily basis. "Coventry City is a club that a lot of players will be interested in joining. People can see that we are progressing. If you look at the crowds we are getting and the stadium I think it is more attractive than it has been for a long while.
"So I don't think we will run into too many problems in terms of attracting players but the standard of players has got to be important this year. "I don't have any budget figure in my head but you only have to look at the top ten in the division to realise what you need.
"If you go through the teams, Reading have spent a million a year on players, we all know what Sheffield United have done, Watford spent £2 million last summer, goodness knows how much Leeds United spent, Preston have spent money, Palace spent £2 million on a centre-forward, Cardiff have spent money and so have Wolves with the amount of players they have got. "So to get into that top ten there has got to be an investment.
"But I don't want to put pressure on Paul Fletcher and we have to strike the balance between having a go and not putting ourselves in financial problems again."
