Those waiting to see who Tony Mowbray brings in before buying their Coventry City season ticket, may have to continue to wait as the City boss has said that he is not rushing to bring in players.
“I understand the supporters want to see new signings coming in but it’s a big market out there,” said Mowbray to the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner. .
“You’d be amazed how many agents there are in the football industry these days and how players there are floating around and unattached to football clubs. If they are out of contract many of them still get paid until the end of July, so they are sitting there with two months money still coming in.
“Negotiations are never simple and if you show your cards too early they use those cards and go somewhere else and bounce them off someone else and see if they can get more money or a better deal, and they make you wait. So it can be a little bit of a waiting game with football agents and clubs at this stage of the close season.
“We have some players who we have talked to and we’re looking through whose available. But I have spoken before about the real lack of structure around the scouting so we’re not sitting here with a huge database of players with lots of information on them. We’re starting a fresh really.
“We’re tip-toeing along at this early stage and I am sure it will become more intense as the weeks go on. But at the same time we would like to add some footballers to what is a thin squad at the moment. We have to get the best value because once we’ve spent the money we can’t spend it again.
“The aim is to get players who we think offer that value so we can utilise the rest of the money in other areas to try to build a team with strengths and qualities in various areas of the pitch that we feel will help us.”
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