New figures emerge as Coventry City prepare to pay ‘one of the biggest’ fees for top Swedish goalkeeper

New figures have emerged which claim Coventry City will pay one of the biggest ever fees for a goalkeeper in the Swedish Allsvenskan top flight if they complete the transfer of Oliver Dovin from Hammarby.

Swedish outlet FotbollDirekt say that according to several different sources, Hammarby and Coventry are said to have verbally agreed a transfer for the 22-year-old, who many consider to be the best in the country’s first division.

“The terms are so high that it will be one of the biggest Allsvenskan goalkeeper transfers of all time,” writes Ola Gustavsson in the publication, who claim the Sky Blues could end up paying around £2.4m in total , after supplements. .

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Dovin has officially been given permission by his club to miss training this week to allow him to travel to an unnamed foreign club to discuss personal terms.

The report continues: “Oliver Dovin will leave Hammarby. After the information of the last few days via Expressen that only details remain, FotbollDirekt.se can now reveal that the parties have today verbally agreed on the 22-year-old goalkeeper.

“Just yesterday (Monday), sporting director Mikael Hjelmberg also showed Fotbollskanalen that he believes a solution is close.”

The report says that Dovin, who took part in Monday night’s match with IFK Göthenburg, is now expected to travel to England for a medical.

As for the fee, the article says the deal will be “one of the biggest Allsvenskan goalkeeper transfers we’ve seen”.

According to FotbollDirekt sources, the transfer itself is said to be around SEK 22m (nearly £1.6m), plus several different bonus milestones worth up to SEK 12m (over £850,000) in total, as well as 15% of the resale. .”

The story adds that Hammarby had the chance to sell Dovin to MLS club Portland Timbers for around SEK 12 million last winter, but chose to stay and it’s a decision his club is now “heavily rewarded” for.

If the deal goes through with the figures mentioned above, it will be beaten only by Pontus Dahlberg from IFK Göteborg to Watford FC in 2018 for SEK 35m (£2.5m) and Hákon Valdimarsson earlier this year from IF Elfsborg to Brentford SEK 40m (£2.9m).

Oliver Dovin played a total of 84 competitive matches in green and white. In these, he kept a clean sheet in 28 matches.

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