Brandon Thomas-Asante

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Coventry City
26 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Brandon Thomas-Asante

12 Edition

The Coventry City Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

7 matches without a win for Coventry City

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Coventry City are no longer polite ones.

Squad

The step up is real for Norman Bassette

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

A bad afternoon for Coventry City against Blackburn Rovers

0‑1 to Blackburn Rovers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Late improvement for Joel Latibeaudiere

At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

Tempers go at Coventry City

Carl Rushworth was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Daniel Robinson left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Coventry City

Something was said to Josh Dasilva and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

No hiding place for Norman Bassette

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Norman Bassette, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Coventry City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jack Rudoni is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Coventry City Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

Brandon Thomas-Asante told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Brandon Thomas-Asante has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Coventry City.

The dugout

Brandon Thomas-Asante gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

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 ahead

Matt Grimes goes back to face Blackburn Rovers

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Matt Grimes’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Coventry City needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The terraces

The stands have heard the Caleb Yirenkyi talk too

What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Coventry City would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.

The dugout

A door opens for Aurèle Amenda

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

A wage question at Coventry City

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

In brief