Viktor Gyökeres - Will we be back in for him

[Badonde]

Coventry were given a transfer embargo yesterday while they repay money to HM Revenue & Customs, which the club attribute to the postponements. “Any transfer activity in the January window will be unaffected,” Dave Boddy, the club’s chief executive, said.
The Times 31/10/22

Have Coventry really got the resources to turn down another bid in January?

 

[Fattyfoggon]

not a chance mate, I doubt he would even consider coming here either to be honest think we need to increase the quality across the squad instead of blowing everything on one player

 

[r00fie1]

Michael Carrick will have his own contacts.
It was the previous Manager who was huffing and puffing about him.
Like Fatty said - we aint blowing a fortune on one player.

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

We need at least 2 midfielders who can move more quickly than a snail. That has to be the priority.

 

[Funky_Chicken]

Only if Gibson wins the euro millions

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Michael Carrick will have his own contacts.
It was the previous Manager who was huffing and puffing about him.
Like Fatty said - we aint blowing a fortune on one player.

Was it? Isn't that why we have a recruitment team / DoF?

 

[Air Resistance]

For this season we’ve still got chuba, Watmore, forss, Muniz, Hoppe and Coburn if we have a recall option. More than enough if we can balance out the squad to provide the ammo with signings in other areas.

 

[Ironops]

Its not strikers we need its creative midfield types. We need to create more chances

 

[Alzi]

Yea he will definitely fancy swapping a championship relegation battle for a.....championship relegation battle.

Coventry will also be up for selling to a direct rival in said championship relegation battle.

 

[fella]

Coventry were given a transfer embargo yesterday while they repay money to HM Revenue & Customs, which the club attribute to the postponements. “Any transfer activity in the January window will be unaffected,” Dave Boddy, the club’s chief executive, said.
The Times 31/10/22

Have Coventry really got the resources to turn down another bid in January?

We have half decent strikers. We need midfielders. Quick, positive midfielders please!

 

[h_m_boro]

Yeah, Coventry will finally crack with our £5m take it or leave it offer, and Gyokeres will be getting the next National Express to Boro.

So.......no

 

[BoroMart]

We need to improve all around the pitch to be honest. We need:

1. a dominant CB, I'd be prepared to sell Fry or Lenihan to fund this. Any chance that Carrick could call in a favour with his old mucka Phil Jones? Contract runs out this season, nowhere near the man utd first team but could absolutely do a job at championship level. Providing the experience and leadership that the team lacks. Might be able to get him in for 6 months on 20k/week while he runs his united contract down?

2. A specialist LB, we have Dijksteel and Smith who can do that role on the right, but only Bola who seems out of favour on the left.

3. CDM - Need a specialist destroyer, back in for Frank Onyeka? We need to stop playing Howson in this role, he hasn't got the mobility to play it, and it was never really his role when in his prime, he was an 8. A specialist CDM will give confidence to other CMs to be more forward thinking, knowing there is a strong shield behind them.

4. CM creativity - this for me is the tough one, we need someone to get on the ball with their head up and create, a ball carrier to commit defenders, a goal and assist threat from the middle of the park.

5. Winger - We need someone who can play left or right to put pressure on Jones to perform, they need to have some form of goal threat and pace, to give us a counter attack threat.

I would sign all these BEFORE going for yet another striker to be starved of service, or a striker to be frustrated as we let 2 goals in before 20mins on the clock.

 

[JM14]

Swapping a team in 22nd for a team in 21st might be a hard sell

 

[bittersweetb]

Scored the same amount of goals as Chuba so far and they wanted £20m+ in the summer. So unless they will accept about £15m less I'd say our money was better spent elsewhere such as actual midfielders

 

[indeedido]

We need to improve all around the pitch to be honest. We need:

1. a dominant CB, I'd be prepared to sell Fry or Lenihan to fund this. Any chance that Carrick could call in a favour with his old mucka Phil Jones? Contract runs out this season, nowhere near the man utd first team but could absolutely do a job at championship level. Providing the experience and leadership that the team lacks. Might be able to get him in for 6 months on 20k/week while he runs his united contract down?

2. A specialist LB, we have Dijksteel and Smith who can do that role on the right, but only Bola who seems out of favour on the left.

3. CDM - Need a specialist destroyer, back in for Frank Onyeka? We need to stop playing Howson in this role, he hasn't got the mobility to play it, and it was never really his role when in his prime, he was an 8. A specialist CDM will give confidence to other CMs to be more forward thinking, knowing there is a strong shield behind them.

4. CM creativity - this for me is the tough one, we need someone to get on the ball with their head up and create, a ball carrier to commit defenders, a goal and assist threat from the middle of the park.

5. Winger - We need someone who can play left or right to put pressure on Jones to perform, they need to have some form of goal threat and pace, to give us a counter attack threat.

I would sign all these BEFORE going for yet another striker to be starved of service, or a striker to be frustrated as we let 2 goals in before 20mins on the clock.

Impossible to argue that we need those players urgently, but we do need a quality Goalscorer and have done since we let Bamford go to Leeds.
The summer recruitment was farcical.

 

[Jonny Ingbar]

I'm not sure it's obvious what we need at the moment, not until Carrick has had a few games to make a proper assessment.

The squad is far too good to be fighting a relegation battle, so the talent is there and it's up to the manager to build it into a cohesive team, which is his job of course.

I can't see us singing anyone on for reasonably money permanently, if there's still a chance we may go down - financially it would be crazy to do so.

 

[Paintolerance]

I'm not sure it's obvious what we need at the moment, not until Carrick has had a few games to make a proper assessment.

The squad is far too good to be fighting a relegation battle, so the talent is there and it's up to the manager to build it into a cohesive team, which is his job of course.

I can't see us singing anyone on for reasonably money permanently, if there's still a chance we may go down - financially it would be crazy to do so.

This.

We have a defence that was more than adequate last year...with a better keeper behind them. Confidence shot by playing a system for months unsuited to them. But the tools are there.

Midfield clearly needs significant surgery! But we know Jones can play, we know a fit Crooks is effective at at this level, Howson can still do a job if he has runners around him etc

Akpom, Muniz, Coburn, and the rest...more than good enough at champo level.

Without an overhaul, we aren't the best team in the league by a long shot. But dear me, if ever there was an underperforming side, we are currently it!

Sort the midfield, play a formation to suit, mid table mediocrity and, I hate to say it, go again next year

 

[Boro4life]

I say show some intent and bid 15 million for him club record fee. Its about time the boro showed some ambition Gibson has been cost cutting for too long is the reason we are in this postion. We need to attack the janaury transfer window so we have the squad for the promotion push next season. As we can't get to next summer and sign another 13 players again and expect them to start the season well

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

Scored the same amount of goals as Chuba so far and they wanted £20m+ in the summer. So unless they will accept about £15m less I'd say our money was better spent elsewhere such as actual midfielders

Let's see where everyone lies at the end of the season where it matters most. I'm happy for akpom to be scoring goals but I can't see him having the same or as many as gyokores at end of season, but who knows.

Gyokores goals have won Coventry 9 Points so far and akpom's have won us 4 points so he's had a bigger impact to their league position. Scoring goals is great but you need then scoring when it counts.

Akpoms allegedly on quite a large wage comparatively as well so not sure how that is going to impact contract talks as he won't want to take a big paycut and not sure we'd want a lengthy contract with big wages when he might stop firing.

 

[Alzi]

I say show some intent and bid 15 million for him club record fee. Its about time the boro showed some ambition Gibson has been cost cutting for too long is the reason we are in this postion

He'll be licking his lips at the prospect of Crooks and Howson providing the ammo for him to fire us up the league.