The Coventry City Gazette
Squad14 Jun 2027
The knee: Liam Johnson out for 21 days
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Coventry City lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market14 Jun 2027
Terms done: Liam Kitching is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and AFC Wimbledon waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Coventry City is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market14 Jun 2027
Bobby Thomas hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Coventry City can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Jun 2027
Caleb Yirenkyi 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Carl Rushworth 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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Coventry City rebuffed over Dominic Solanke
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. West Ham United have kept their man, and Coventry City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market14 Jun 2027
Eyes on Ben Wilson again
The phone has started ringing about Ben Wilson again, and this time the name on the line is Luton Town. Coventry City are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad14 Jun 2027
No place for James McConnell in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Coventry City are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Brandon Thomas-Asante is still paying for one afternoon at Coventry City
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Sidiki Chérif plays
- The dugout Josh Eccles knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Sidiki Chérif wants out of the dugout