The Coventry City Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Harrison Armstrong
Coventry City asked and Everton said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Red Bull Salzburg 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ethan Pinnock raises the bar for Coventry City
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Coventry City heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Loum Tchaouna signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Loum Tchaouna commits to Coventry City for another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Taiwo Awoniyi in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Coventry City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lautaro Taboada gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lautaro Taboada has just signed for Coventry City, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Leyton Orient watching Milan van Ewijk
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Coventry City have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
David Jackson steps up from the Coventry City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Jackson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Luke Woolfenden
- The dugout Loum Tchaouna knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Coventry City host Stoke City