Red Star manager insists Marko Stamenic is ‘fully ready’ for a move to Coventry City

Marko Stamenic is “fully prepared” for life in the Championship with Coventry City, says Red Star Belgrade manager Nenad Milijas.

The former Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder is currently in charge of Red Star’s youth team and spoke of the New Zealand international’s qualities as more details emerge in the Serbian media about a €5m (£4.2m) move at Sky Blues. City, however, are tight-lipped on the subject, unable to confirm or deny the speculation.

In a report published on zurnal.rs, it claims: “Marko Stamenić will play next season at Championship side Coventry for many of the world’s strongest second leagues,” before naming a number of former Red Star , otherwise. known as FK Crvena Zvezda, players who successfully moved to England – Nikola Jovanović, Nemanja Vidić (Manchester United), Vladimir Petrović Pižon (Arsenal), Darko Kovačević (Sheffield Wednesday), Dejan Stefanović (Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth , Fulham, Norwich ) and Nenad Milijaš (Wolves).

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The latter is the current coach of the “red-white” youth team and is said to be unsurprised by Stamenić’s departure to Great Britain.

“Crvena zvezda makes very good transfers. The way we work has changed a lot in the transition period,” said the 41-year-old, who played 62 Premier League games for Wolves between 2009-2012.

“Stamenić is a quality player who showed quality at the start and end of his stay at the Maracana. I hope he does well at Coventry.”

Insisting the move would suit the 22-year-old central midfielder, he added: “Marko is not from our climate and I think he will fit in very quickly. I mean the language, his mother tongue is English, that’s why he’s fully prepared.”

And Milijaš insists that Stamenić will hit the ground running and face the rigors of the English Championship.

“Marko is excellently prepared, even for a tough league like the Championship,” he said. “He will have no problem with the physical requirements, the rest will be helped by the people at the club to be able to play well for Coventry from the first game.”

As for the player’s best position, having been used in several for Red Star last season, the coach said: “He is at his best as a midfielder, when he faces the opposition goal. Classic box to box, because it tends to be repeated often.”

Meanwhile, Delijesever TV, who cover Red Star, posted the graphic and lucky message below on their instagram account, adding even more weight to the move, saying: “Marko Stamenic is no longer a Crvena Zvezda footballer!

“He signed for Coventry City FC and the fee will be €5m.
Thanks Marko for everything and good luck with the rest of your career!’

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