Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray is hoping that Danny Swanson will step up to the plate and be able to offer him an outlet this season.
Speaking to the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner, Mowbray said: “I don’t think anyone can deny Danny is a very talented player.
“It’s the positional side of where he plays and, for me, probably the only place he can play is coming in off the left-hand side because if you play him on the right he can’t go down the outside and beat people because he hasn’t got the speed and mobility to burst past people. But he has got that ability to cut inside to space and look for runners to pick passes.
“He hasn’t got huge, fast and powerful assets. He’s a technician who needs the ball at his feet and runners to give him targets to try to hit.
“We haven’t got many forward runners at this moment for people to make darting runs in behind the opposition and spin away from centre-halves over the top, so Danny hasn’t got the targets to hit yet.
“So we’ll see how he progresses through pre-season and hopefully if we add a few players he’ll have more influence on the game because he’ll have more targets to hit.
"I enjoyed watching Danny against Nuneaton and I have done in training as well.
“I think he’s enjoyed it too. He knows that the test going through pre-season is to try to force himself into the side and it won’t be for his lack of talent if he doesn’t force his way in.
“But he needs to keep working hard and if he wants to be a part of this club he has to keep applying his talent to the game.”
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