Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that he and his staff are doing their best to watch as many players, who could be targets for next season as possible.
The City boss told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner: “The loan market changes next season, of course. There will be no emergency loans so it goes window to window so you have to develop those relationships with clubs if you have already identified players.
"And yet Premier League clubs are a bit reluctant to let players out on loan yet because they usually take them on the pre-season trips, integrate them into their team and club and then send them out later.
“It’s a bit up in the air and yet my desk is full of players and reports; players that scouts like, players that agents are pushing our way. Time is running out to go and watch them and we have little resource in terms of manpower to go and watch them, and yet we’re doing our best to cover as much ground as we can to get eyes and reports on players. We’re out there, working really hard to identify players that could be part of the club next year.
“You’ll have agents telling you they have the next big thing for years but it’s a bit like being in the food chain and the level a player you get sent depends on how much money you can pay.
“It’s part of the job, we watch lots of players and it’s which ones you choose to fit in your team. Invariably the ones you like, you make a call to his advisor and he wants ridiculous money so you scrub him off and move on.
“On the one hand it’s exciting and enjoyable trying to put a team together and on the other you’d prefer to have your own team and just put two or three extra bits in.
“And that’s ultimately where this club has to get to and build a foundation of players who are under contract.
“And then you have to improve those contracts and keep them hungry, keep growing them and adding quality around them so that every summer we’re only changing two, three or four and the core keep going.”
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