Dowie Walkout Denied

Last updated : 07 May 2007 By Covsupport

Tim Flowers has denied reports that Iain Dowie will walk out of the club if monies promised to him are not forthcoming.

Reports this week suggest that Dowie is frustrated that his budget for next season is not in place and he cannot currently get on with building a team to challenge next season. Yesterday,there was an article in the Sunday Mirror suggesting that Dowie may walk but Tim Flowers has denied this saying to the CT: "There's nothing in that at all. "Iain loves it here, I love it here, and we've enjoyed our brief spell in charge.

"We've accomplished mission A, which was to stay up, and - without building it up too much - we want to have a go next season. "Iain and I aren't party to when and where this deal's going to happen, but we're assured that it will happen.

"We've worked tirelessly to draw up a list of targets, we've had a lot of people on the road watching them, and when the money's available we'll go out and try to get them. "It would be handy if it was sooner rather than later because we need to get on with it - the sooner everything is in place the better - but we're professionals and we will just have to wait."

"Iain's an ambitious young manager and a very good young manager, and we want to get on with the job. "We haven't come here to mess about - we want this football club to be pushing up where we believe it belongs, certainly in and around the play-off positions. Our job is to push everybody concerned to get it there - we make no bones about that, and that's what we'll continue to do.

"I'm not clued up about due diligence and all that business - I only got three O Levels - but what I do know is that the parties concerned have been looking at the accounts for quite a while, so hopefully it will be sooner rather than later."

On the figure promised to Dowie for teambuilding, Flowers added: "I've no idea - the targets I do know, the figures I don't. "I hope it is £9million because although that brings pressure in terms of getting your recruitment right, I'd rather have that pressure than having to scratch about.

"Give us a chance and we'll have a go. But we'll do it in the best interest of Coventry City - we won't be bankrupting the club or anything stupid like that."