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Steven Pressley wants Cyrus Christie to complete his move to another club sooner rather than later to help boost his transfer kitty.
Although any fresh deals the Sky Blues boss lines up are not dependent on the compensation City are due to get for losing the 21-year-old Academy graduate, the manager admits the funds will help.
The club are hoping to get a six-figure payment, ideally negotiated but from a tribunal if necessary, for the out-of-contract full-back, due to his age and fact that he was developed at the club.
Pressley has also identified an unspecified number of other members of his squad who have been told they can find themselves another club this summer, which would also free up wages to be used on new signings.
“I don’t need that money from Cyrus to enable me to recruit but we don’t want it dragging on,” said Pressley of the defender who, ideally, wants to step up to the Championship but who has been linked with a move to the Major League Soccer in the United States.
“I’ve obviously got a budget and everyone in the league structure is governed by Financial Fair Play.
“But just now I have a surplus of money to go out and bring in a number of new recruits but I still also need to move the pack a little bit, Cyrus being one of them that will help in the recruitment process.
“So I have got money but we’re all governed by the fair play rules. But Cyrus moving on would create even more funds for me so there’s no doubt it would provide additional funding in order to help the process of recruitment.”
Pressley admits he wants several new signings to boost his squad and has already made a number of offers to players.
Among his targets are a new goalkeeper to replace Joe Murphy, a centre-back, two new strikers to link with and back up Callum Wilson, a holding midfielder and pacy wide players for the first team, while he also hopes to recruit development players as well.
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Although any fresh deals the Sky Blues boss lines up are not dependent on the compensation City are due to get for losing the 21-year-old Academy graduate, the manager admits the funds will help.
The club are hoping to get a six-figure payment, ideally negotiated but from a tribunal if necessary, for the out-of-contract full-back, due to his age and fact that he was developed at the club.
Pressley has also identified an unspecified number of other members of his squad who have been told they can find themselves another club this summer, which would also free up wages to be used on new signings.
“I don’t need that money from Cyrus to enable me to recruit but we don’t want it dragging on,” said Pressley of the defender who, ideally, wants to step up to the Championship but who has been linked with a move to the Major League Soccer in the United States.
“I’ve obviously got a budget and everyone in the league structure is governed by Financial Fair Play.
“But just now I have a surplus of money to go out and bring in a number of new recruits but I still also need to move the pack a little bit, Cyrus being one of them that will help in the recruitment process.
“So I have got money but we’re all governed by the fair play rules. But Cyrus moving on would create even more funds for me so there’s no doubt it would provide additional funding in order to help the process of recruitment.”
Pressley admits he wants several new signings to boost his squad and has already made a number of offers to players.
Among his targets are a new goalkeeper to replace Joe Murphy, a centre-back, two new strikers to link with and back up Callum Wilson, a holding midfielder and pacy wide players for the first team, while he also hopes to recruit development players as well.
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