More Club Presentations For Mowbray And Venus

Last updated : 16 May 2016 By CNS Staff

Coventry City Manager Tony Mowbray and Technical Director Mark Venus have been making presentations to more top clubs in order to get them to loan out players to the Sky Blues.

Mowbray told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner: "We’ve been to see various technical directors, did one last week.

“I’ve spoken to some clubs and shown them some presentations of how we might play, how we coach, what sort of systems we play and what I expect off certain individuals.

“Do they want to send their players here, do they think the Adam Armstrong and Jacob Murphy experiment last season was good with 20 and ten goals each?

“What to they think about the way we treat loan players and do they think it will be good for the development of their players to come out and play League One?

“Do they see League One as an option when they want to play in the Premier League and Championship? Well, Dele Alli did all right in League One and Armstrong did all right in this division.

“Is it a negative for a young Premier League player to come and play in League One? No, because he has to come here and rip it up, score loads of goals or be brilliant at the back or be the best player in midfield.

“The point of the exercise is to let clubs get a feel for us really but, generally, they know all about us anyway.

 “So we saw a club this weekend and they knew all about our West Brom project and how the team played, how we got out of the Championship and even how we played in the Premier League.

“And they know that we play a certain way and that their players will develop because we try to play through the lines and move the ball about and that will benefit their type of footballers. 

“I think that’s an important selling point for any club. And then there’s my personality, whether I am a shouter and screamer or an educator.

“They understand that coming out of Under-21 football they need another level and there has to be some discipline administered, so I have to tell them why they are not doing it right or that it’s a different type of football. 

“I watched Man City and Chelsea on the telly the other night and nobody tackled anyone, it was lovely aesthetic passing football.

"But in League One, ask Jack Stephens. If he doesn’t head the ball he ain’t playing.

“They have to learn the basics of men’s football and that balance of the lovely aesthetic passing in Under-21 football at Premier League level added to the physical demands of League One and then you start to make a more rounded footballer.”

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