The Coventry City Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Milan van Ewijk goes
Brentford paid $10.2M and Coventry City took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Romain Esse, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82
A mark of 7.82 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $10.2M sale of Milan van Ewijk
He is going to Brentford, the club has $10.2M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Coventry City
Frank Onyeka was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Coventry City supporters have found a favourite in Romain Esse
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Romain Esse has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match15 Aug 2026
Coventry City find a way past Stoke City
Stoke City made Coventry City work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matt Grimes falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Norman Bassette
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Norman Bassette, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Haji Wright stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.94 on the card, and the Coventry City support went home talking about one name.
In brief
- Boardroom Coventry City turn down the training-ground plan
- Market Jamie Allen is free to find somewhere else
- Squad Tatsuhiro Sakamoto finally opens his account