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Coventry City development director Steve Waggott has pledged that all the cash from Callum Wilson’s transfer to Bournemouth will be re-invested in the club.
And the Sky Blues’ director of football is hoping that all of manager Steven Pressley’s summer targets will be in place by the time they fly out to Italy on Sunday week.
Having brought in five players – wingers Danny Swanson, Jim O’Brien, and Mohamed Coulibaly, defender Reda Johnson and goalkeeper Ryan Allsop – in the space of 24 hours last week, Pressley is looking to recruit five more – three strikers, a left-back and a central midfielder.
And Waggott stressed: “The fee received for Callum Wilson will undoubtedly help us to strengthen the squad and certainly helps under the Financial Fair Play salary-cap rules.
“It’s not a case of saying ‘we are going to spend the Callum money here or the Callum money there’, it all goes into the overall football budget for Steven to use accordingly.
“If he feels there is a player within that budget that can strengthen the squad that requires a transfer fee, then we will pursue that player.
"But it also means we have got more room for manoeuvre in the players we target who are out of contract or available on a free.
“What’s vitally important is that we put together the best possible squad within the overall football budget and this deal certainly helps us to do that and, as Steven said last week, the way Callum went about things has helped from that point of view.
“We have brought five players in over the past week and we are, of course, looking to add several more as soon as we can.
“On top of all that, the money helps us in the medium term, too, because it means we can invest even further in areas such as scouting and development which, after all, is how we will develop the Callum Wilsons of the future – something Steven is very keen to see.
“The target, for me, is to give Steven his full complement of players if possible – and it’s a big ask – prior to going on the pre-season tour, because that’s vital for the team building with new players coming in,” said Waggott, who structured the Wilson deal to include Coulibaly and Allsop on loan until January with a third Cherries player also due to join.
“I said last week that I was going to try to get 50 per cent of our targets in within a week, which we’ve done, and the rest we have engaged with lots and are developing in all the different junctures, so we’re pushing ahead with as many as possible.
“We need the players in because we want as long as possible to work with them because the fitness levels and whole basis of pre-season is to get them up to the levels for the demands of how Steven Pressley plays his high intensity game.”
Waggott explained that the process has taken time over the close season for a season.
“All the fans have been waiting for the signings and wondering how long it’s going to be,” he said. “We get all of that but we want them to be the right signings.
“Our first scoop of players, as I call it, are all out of Championship clubs so there has to be a little bit longer process to sort out their commercial deals with the agents involved and meeting the players and making sure they understand where we are as a club, the philosophy of Steven and Neil MacFarlane and how we’re going to be set up next year.
“My view is we have got an attention to detail where we run it like a Championship club, albeit in League One, but that sort of approach seems to impress the players to feel as if we are ultra professional, which we are.
"And that if they come and join us, the experience will be positive and they’ll leave us a better player than when they came, which is what every player wants.”
Waggott is confident that even the players who haven’t yet started pre-season training with clubs because they are out of contract will have a decent level of fitness, but time is clearly of the essence.
“Most of the players in the modern game have personal trainers and work towards a certain fitness regime,” he said, but what we learned last year was that players who we brought in weren’t at the fitness levels we required as the season went on.
“The sooner we can get them in – and I stress that they’ve got to be the right ones we bring in, and it’ll definitely be worth waiting for that – and involved in all the fitness programmes the better for the season.”
Read More: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sp...ws/callum-wilson-cash-reinvested-back-7387302
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And the Sky Blues’ director of football is hoping that all of manager Steven Pressley’s summer targets will be in place by the time they fly out to Italy on Sunday week.
Having brought in five players – wingers Danny Swanson, Jim O’Brien, and Mohamed Coulibaly, defender Reda Johnson and goalkeeper Ryan Allsop – in the space of 24 hours last week, Pressley is looking to recruit five more – three strikers, a left-back and a central midfielder.
And Waggott stressed: “The fee received for Callum Wilson will undoubtedly help us to strengthen the squad and certainly helps under the Financial Fair Play salary-cap rules.
“It’s not a case of saying ‘we are going to spend the Callum money here or the Callum money there’, it all goes into the overall football budget for Steven to use accordingly.
“If he feels there is a player within that budget that can strengthen the squad that requires a transfer fee, then we will pursue that player.
"But it also means we have got more room for manoeuvre in the players we target who are out of contract or available on a free.
“What’s vitally important is that we put together the best possible squad within the overall football budget and this deal certainly helps us to do that and, as Steven said last week, the way Callum went about things has helped from that point of view.
“We have brought five players in over the past week and we are, of course, looking to add several more as soon as we can.
“On top of all that, the money helps us in the medium term, too, because it means we can invest even further in areas such as scouting and development which, after all, is how we will develop the Callum Wilsons of the future – something Steven is very keen to see.
“The target, for me, is to give Steven his full complement of players if possible – and it’s a big ask – prior to going on the pre-season tour, because that’s vital for the team building with new players coming in,” said Waggott, who structured the Wilson deal to include Coulibaly and Allsop on loan until January with a third Cherries player also due to join.
“I said last week that I was going to try to get 50 per cent of our targets in within a week, which we’ve done, and the rest we have engaged with lots and are developing in all the different junctures, so we’re pushing ahead with as many as possible.
“We need the players in because we want as long as possible to work with them because the fitness levels and whole basis of pre-season is to get them up to the levels for the demands of how Steven Pressley plays his high intensity game.”
Waggott explained that the process has taken time over the close season for a season.
“All the fans have been waiting for the signings and wondering how long it’s going to be,” he said. “We get all of that but we want them to be the right signings.
“Our first scoop of players, as I call it, are all out of Championship clubs so there has to be a little bit longer process to sort out their commercial deals with the agents involved and meeting the players and making sure they understand where we are as a club, the philosophy of Steven and Neil MacFarlane and how we’re going to be set up next year.
“My view is we have got an attention to detail where we run it like a Championship club, albeit in League One, but that sort of approach seems to impress the players to feel as if we are ultra professional, which we are.
"And that if they come and join us, the experience will be positive and they’ll leave us a better player than when they came, which is what every player wants.”
Waggott is confident that even the players who haven’t yet started pre-season training with clubs because they are out of contract will have a decent level of fitness, but time is clearly of the essence.
“Most of the players in the modern game have personal trainers and work towards a certain fitness regime,” he said, but what we learned last year was that players who we brought in weren’t at the fitness levels we required as the season went on.
“The sooner we can get them in – and I stress that they’ve got to be the right ones we bring in, and it’ll definitely be worth waiting for that – and involved in all the fitness programmes the better for the season.”
Read More: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sp...ws/callum-wilson-cash-reinvested-back-7387302
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