Coventry City manager, Chris Coleman is due to meet with SISU this week to discuss the direction the club is to take and to get clarification about how he can use the money raised from the sale of Scott Dann and Robbie Simpson.
Coleman is aware that he has to be prudent and will not be drawn into a bidding war with other clubs and be forced to pay inflated transfer fees and wages. ‘City have seen the price of Hearts midfielder, Andrew Driver rise from about £2m to over £4m on the back of his inclusion and performance in the recent under 21 European cup competition.
Coleman is an admirer of Driver, but he stated the, "I went up to watch him last season and he is a good talent but, again, everyone has got a price and we are not going to pay inflated prices. I don’t want to go down that route, but it is no secret that we like him and that hasn’t changed. It might happen in the next month, I don’t know, but he is a player we admire.”
Another Coventry target, Leeds’s Jermaine Beckford looks set to join Sheffield United in a player exchange plus cash deal worth an estimated £5m. Beckford's agent Nick Rubery said the player was only interested in a move towards the top-echelons of English football, which means either a premiership club, Everton are thought to be interested and so are championship clubs Middleborough as well as the Blades.
Coleman has said, “We have got a lot to offer,” he said. We have a great stadium and training facilities but what players will get here is games.They won’t be joining a squad of 30 where we rotate”.
He explained, "We don’t, we play our strongest team as much as we can, so we are saying to players, come and play games at a really good football club, with a great history, great stadium, nice training ground, so we have got a lot going for us. That’s no disrespect to any other clubs that might be in for the same players, but I think we have got a bit more going for us".
Coleman concluded, “Even if there was a club that finished in the top six or top ten last year, we have got a lot going for us and players will be able to look back and say, ‘this is why I chose Coventry,’ because we have got a lot of plusses.”
Coleman knows that signing new players will not be easy because other clubs will, naturally also be interested in talented players, but he think Coventry City have a lot to offer those he called ‘talented new stars’.