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Thorn Eyes Swift Summer Signing To Start Coventry's Summer Spending

ANDY Thorn is looking to act fast to land his first summer signing after Coventry City’s uncertain future has started to look a bit brighter.

Sky Blue owners Sisu have agreed a budget for next season, enabling the club to sign off their overdue accounts and come out of the transfer embargo imposed by the Football League.

And although City have missed out on key targets – frustratingly by just a few days because they were unable to trade and players opted to go elsewhere – Thorn is confident he can recruit enough quality to help what he hopes will be a charge back to the Championship.

“It’s a big weight off our shoulders,” said the relieved boss, who insists there’s no time to lose in his quest to land a goalscorer and a couple of midfielders.


“The shackles are off and all the hard work can start now to try to do some business and we want to try to get as many as we can.

“I haven’t been off the phone all day after we got the news through, which is great, and there are more people who fancy coming.

“It’s disappointing that we lost out on players who we had shown round the Ricoh and wanted to sign but it is nice now that we can go and do something, so let’s see what we can get.

“We are acting fast because we have had things ticking over ready for when it was going to be lifted but it is not as easy as people think.”

Shrewsbury Town striker and Cov Kid James Collins and attacking Bradford midfielder David Syers were among Thorn’s top targets but both opted to sign elsewhere because of the transfer embargo, Collins joining Swindon and Syers Doncaster.

“Yes it is disappointing to have missed out on targets but there is not point dwelling on it,” said the 45-year-old manager.

“I am sure the likes of Syers and Collins will be gutted now and had they hung on a couple of days we could have got things done.



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“It’s a big weight off our shoulders,” said the relieved boss, who insists there’s no time to lose in his quest to land a goalscorer and a couple of midfielders."

That's what worries me the most, we need a damn sight more than 3 players to be ready for next season

torchomatic said:

Here lads, I've got a great idea. It'll crack you up this one. Why don't we just moan, winge and complain every time Thorn says something? Brilliant, eh? A

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To be fair I like Thorn and if you look through my posts I've been one of the optimistic people on here. Surely though with the bare bones squad that we've got, Thorn saying he's looking to bring in a couple of players must worry you ? Especially if we lose players...