Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that the Sky Blues cannot build a team on the back of hope.
Speaking to Andy Turner of the Coventry Telegraph, Mowbray said: “I can’t just sit here and wait to get players on loan. I think we have to try to sign some of our own players and then if, somewhere down the line, the loan players come and we feel they can get in front of the ones we sign then so be it, but we can’t try to build our team on the back of hope.
“Generally the better loan players go away with their squads on pre-season, go on tour and see how they fit in. What happens in pre-season is that managers don’t want to play their first team players for 90 minutes in the first two or three games. They want them to play 45 minutes so they take young players to supplement the second half of the games, which means they take at least 24 or 25 players on tour with them.
“Invariably they are young players and the ones we would be trying to sign on loan.
“It’s not frustration but it’s a case of these things take time and you keep talking to the clubs because the managers reach a stage where they say they are not going to play the kids because the first team players are ready to start playing 90 minutes.
“And then they might make the decision that whoever it is can go on loan now, but that might be four weeks into their pre-season so we might have to go on our own pre-season before we get any loan players in."
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