The Coventry City Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Miguel Ángel Brau has said yes to Barnet
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Coventry City have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market10 Aug 2026
Portsmouth 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Haji Wright’s move to Real Salt Lake falls through
The deal that would have taken Haji Wright to Real Salt Lake has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Coventry City with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
John Egan due for a Coventry City medical
Everything agreed with Hull City, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
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
Ethan Pinnock 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
No place for Park Jin-Seob 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Coventry City are still strangers to each other
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout Loum Tchaouna knocks on the manager's door
- The terraces The stands have heard the Caleb Yirenkyi talk too
- Looking ahead Coventry City host Stoke City