Strikers and wingers next on Boothroyd's list

Last updated : 05 July 2010 By Covsupport News Service/RD

Coventry City boss Aidy Boothroyd has spoken about his squad and where he thinks it still needs some work.

Now that the players are back in training, he has had a chance to see the ability and quality he has to work work with and he is happy with what he has seen. Boothroyd is confident that he can improve the current players and mould them into a capable team, but he still thinks he need more goal scoring options.

To achieve this Boothroyd is looking for a couple more strikers and a couple of wingers. He already brought Gary McSheffrey back to the club and has hinted that he will be played as a striker rather than as a winger. Roy O'Donovan will also add to the attacking options, but strikers need supply and to do this Boothroyd is looking for wingers.

"There is absolutely fantastic and enormous potential here," said Boothroyd to the CT, after watching his squad train for the first time this week. "There has been a lot of hard work behind the scenes over the last couple of years to get the club to where it is now in terms of the infrastructure and the way the club works.

"I think there is the opportunity to bring it all together and build some momentum, adding to the good players that are already here and making sure we push on."

I addition to the two strikers, Boothroyd has drafted in two full backs in Richard Keogh and Stephen O'Hara, but will now turn his attention to to front end of his team

"I have got to work on the front players now," he explained. "I have got Roy O'Donovan and Gary McSheffrey in and we have young Shaun Jeffers and Freddy Eastwood, who is a player I am looking forward to working with and we need to bring in a couple more.

"In the wide areas we have got Michael McIndoe and David Bell but, apart from that, we haven't got any recognised wingers so that's an area I have got to look at."

Boothroyd had earlier ruled out a move for out of contract Charlton winger Lloyd Sam.