The Coventry City Gazette
Squad12 Oct 2026
Norman Bassette is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Carl Rushworth signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Carl Rushworth commits to Coventry City for another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Joel Latibeaudiere has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
No place for Haji Wright in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Haji Wright has his answer from Coventry City; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Haji Wright
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Haji Wright, and the manager let it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Loum Tchaouna linked with a move away
The name of Loum Tchaouna keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Coventry City say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Matt Grimes faces his old club
Blackburn Rovers next, and one man in the Coventry City dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Bobby Thomas has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Bobby Thomas has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Joel Latibeaudiere asks for a word with the manager
- Market Coventry City put Raphael Borges Rodrigues up for sale
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Coventry City