Coventry City favorite make Mark Robins claim ahead of Viktor Gyokeres’ potential transfer push

Darren Huckerby insists Mark Robins should receive all the proceeds to strengthen his Coventry City squad if Viktor Gyokeres is sold this summer.

The former Sky Blues favorite is still keeping a close eye on his former club where he made his name in the Premier League in the late 1990s and is keeping his fingers crossed that the Championship side will be able to add to their ‘real core’. good players in the upcoming transfer window, which officially opens on Friday (June 14).

It is unclear at this stage how much money the Robins will have to spend, but a significant sale or, preferably, a sizeable financial boost from the club’s sell-on clause for Gyokeres could fund more quality signings.

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Gyokeres had an incredible season in Portugal, helping Sporting Lisbon to the title with a brace of goals that made him the talk of European football and sparked interest from a number of clubs, including top Premier League sides such as Arsenal and Chelsea.

Asked if he thought the Sky Blues, for whom he made 109 appearances and scored 34 goals between 1996-99, could strengthen and start next season, Huckerby told CoventryLive: “Yes, I think they have a core of very good players . The forwards (Haji Wright and Ellis Simms) took time to get going last season, but now they’ve proven themselves at championship level.”

However, the 48-year-old warned: “There are three very good teams coming down from the Premier League and they will be favorites again next season so it’s never going to get any easier but I’m sure Coventry will get something . more money from (Viktor) Gyokeres this summer, from their sell-on clause, you’d like to think it’s going to be given to Mark Robins.

“I know they had a bit of a shock towards the end of last season, but I know they’ll want to push on again.”

Coventry sold Gyokeres for just over £20m last July and are set to earn even more from the player through a sell-on clause understood to be 10% of the difference between what City sold him and the next selling price. That could be considerable considering there is an £86m release clause for the centre-forward, who still has four years left on his contract at Sporting.

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