The Coventry City Gazette
Market1 Feb 2027
Norman Bassette has said yes to Sion
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Coventry City have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Feb 2027
Carl Rushworth asks to leave Coventry City
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Feb 2027
Sunderland come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Coventry City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Feb 2027
Kaine Kesler Hayden says no to Wrexham
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Kaine Kesler Hayden had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Coventry City close the window on a squad of their own making
5 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Coventry City
Taiwo Awoniyi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Coventry City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Frank Onyeka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Stevenage tell Coventry City: Carl Piergianni is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match30 Jan 2027
Coventry City come up short against Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield Wednesday left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- The dugout George Butler: “No excuses”
- Squad Norman Bassette is no longer first choice
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Maeson King