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Doug King clears up Coventry City's policy on signing 30-somethings with no sell-on value
Doug King insists Coventry City do not have a policy of not signing 30-something players with little or no sell-on value, and revealed the club actively tried to bring experienced players in last summer.
Put to him at Monday night’s fans forum broadcast live on BBC CWR that the Sky Blues team has been “crying out for one or two 30-somethings to help the younger players along,” the club owner replied: “It’s your opinion that it’s crying out for that. Listen, we want a team that wins. If we find a player that can mesh it together and they are identified and they have no sell-on value, I have no problem with that at all.
“We want a team that works really well. Amongst it we need to get quality players that we can develop because we were shown in the previous set-up that we could develop those players. But we also need to know that it’s not as simple as that.
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“We looked at players in the summer that had no sell-on value. We tried to sign players who had no sell-on value in the summer. That didn’t work and if the manager wants to come and knock on my door and say, ‘I’ve looked at the squad and I need Robbie from wherever, and he’s going to be the pivot that’s really going to bring this group together,’ then no problem with me.”
He added: “Look, we’re not sitting here with some rigid model of whatever it is, we’re here to get out of the most difficult league the best way that we possibly can. Amongst that we’re trying to do it sustainably, we’re trying to bring in high quality players who we can develop and obviously move on at some point so that we can reinvest and get to where we want to get to. There’s no rigid model whereby Doug says we can’t do that.”
