The Coventry City Gazette
Squad23 Aug 2027
Robert Walker damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Pablo Felipe: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Coventry City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Door shut on Alexey Miranchuk
Coventry City asked and Dinamo Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad23 Aug 2027
7 saves: João Virgínia was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market23 Aug 2027
Marcus Ifill 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Coventry City
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Sidiki Chérif at Coventry City
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sidiki Chérif is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Coventry City
Ousmane Diomande and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Coventry City
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Match Pedro Neto’s goal not enough for Coventry City
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ousmane Diomande
- Match Coventry City leaking at the back