The ‘concern’ over the future of Mark Robins and the Coventry City transfer was addressed

It’s that time of year when football fans are filled with anticipation and excitement as their club prepares for what many hope will be an extremely busy and constructive transfer window.

This time last year, Coventry City supporters were filled with dread and resignation at the loss of two of their best players and worrying about how their recruitment department would get over this bump in their progress to Premier League. Twelve months on, the Sky Blues have shown there is life after Viktor Gyokeres and Gustavo Hamer as the team continues to evolve and grow again with fresh and stronger foundations for success.

And so, in another summer of reinforcements, most have come to terms with the imminent loss of Callum O’Hare and the only real concern facing the players is whether a better-placed club comes in to replace Ben Sheaf, with little early speculation. linking him with interest from Fulham and newly promoted Ipswich Town, to add to ongoing links with a Luton side now confirmed as returning to the second tier and ambitions to go straight back up.

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Other than that, there may be a bit of buzz around Ellis Simms and Haji Wright due to both being just one goal in 20 in their first season at CBS Arena, but with the pair being long-term . offers and just starting their development journey with the club it would be difficult to see them leave at this particular time.

The one pesky paper/web gossip that keeps popping up, however, concerns interest in Mark Robins, largely due to the number of managerial vacancies with the likes of Hull and Norwich getting rid of Liam Rosenior and David Wagner, and speculation mounting over Vincent Kompany’s future at newly relegated Burnley, amid talk the Belgian was wanted by Brighton.

The Hull link was floated about a week ago but, rest assured, nothing ever came of it, with Tigers owner Acun Ilicali aiming to have his new manager in place by this week, after two weeks of talks with German Tim Walter. Besides, a move to East Yorkshire just wouldn’t make sense for what is, with all due respect, a smaller club. Hull have big ambitions and a decent fan base, with an average home gate of just 22,000 last season, but why would the Robins ditch the Sky Blues project they’re fine with now?

If he’s still in the Championship under Sisu, with an ongoing limited budget preventing him from making real progress, if he was unlucky then you could understand, but under the hugely ambitious Doug King there is a real sense of excitement and anticipation that this thing is a club up.

The Norwich job is often linked with Robins whenever it becomes moot due to his association with the club from his playing days, but he is very low on the list according to the latest bookmakers’ odds and the Canaries are understood to be looking from new abroad. their next manager.

Finally, the Burnley link was a strange one, but given a few seconds of legitimacy by some due to the fact that it was broadcast by Belgian sports journalist Sacha Tavolieri, who has 95,000 followers on X. The one huge detail that let him down, with however, he claimed Ashley Cole would join him as an assistant coach. If Sacha had done his homework, he would know all about the Adi Viveash factor.

Ah, but Adi has been linked to the Plymouth vacancy, I hear the doubters cry, in a desperate attempt to make it all fit. The truth is that the brilliant City manager has told me personally that he has no ambitions to become a manager.

There are few certainties in football, but for now I think Sky Blues fans can rest easy when it comes to their manager’s future. He has said time and time again over the past seven years that he loves the club and wants to take it as far as he can. That journey and ambition continues and gets closer to being realized with each passing season. And at a time when he admitted he was “delighted” by the strengthening of this summer’s squad, there is clearly more to look forward to than worry about over the next few months.

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