Coventry City transfer news from Coventry Live as yet more interest emerges in for the 25 year old with Burnley claimed to
be ready to offer two players plus cash in exchange for the Sweden international.
Viktor Gyokeres’ future continues to dominate the headlines with another Premier League club emerging as having interest
in the Coventry City striker.
Burnley are the latest top flight English club to be linked with the Sky Blues star, with reports that the Clarets are looking to
do a players-plus-cash deal as a way of reaching City’s £20million plus asking price.
Earlier this week it emerged that Everton had entered the race for the 25-year-old’s signature, with the Daily Mail claiming
the Toffees could offer striker Ellis Simms in a player swap plus cash agreement.
Meanwhile, the Portuguese press appear convinced that Gyokeres has set his heart on a move to Sporting Lisbon, having
already agreed a five year deal with the Lions and just waiting for the two clubs to reach a compromise on the figures, with
the Primeira Liga side currently falling short of Coventry’s valuation.
City owner and executive chairman Doug King is determined to hold out for the best possible price, last week acknowledging
that there is “lots of interest” in the player from home and abroad.
And given Mark Robins’ need to rebuild his squad with between 10-15 new players following the summer departures of 11
seniors, including five loans, such a deal might well appeal.
As it stands the squad is looking extremely thin ahead of the weekend’s return for pre-season testing, with just one centre-
half in Kyle McFadzean, one fit striker in Matty Godden and no right wing-backs.
A player exchange plus cash deal, therefore, could be attractive to City who are understood to be keen to re-sign Luke
McNally following his outstanding half season loan from Turf Moor.
The 23-year-old centre-back appears to be well down the pecking order under Vincent Kompany, who added West Brom
defender Dara O’Shea for a reported £7million fee last week.
His arrival comes on top of two centre-halves who were signed in January – 24-year-old Swede Hjalmar Ekdal who joined
for £2.5m from Djurgardens IF and Ameen Al-Dakhil who signed from Sint-Truiden.
TEAMtalk claims Kompany could be ready to offer two players plus cash to “tempt” City to part with Gyokeres, who has also
been linked with interest from Wolves, West Ham and Brentford, among others.
Another Burnley player who City might well be interested in is attacking midfielder Scott Twine. The 24-year-old was limited
to 14 league games last term but remains highly-rated, certainly in the Championship, and was one of the players former Sky
Blues star Gary McSheffrey recommended Coventry should go and sign this summer in a list compiled for CoventryLive.
Clarets boss Kompany, meanwhile, is looking to add another proven goal scorer to his squad and is an admirer of Gyokeres,
having spoken about the 22-goal striker following his side’s narrow 1-0 Turf Moor victory over Coventry last January,
admitting he “showed everything” against his defenders.
Asked what he thought of Gyokeres, the 36-year-old manager was keen that no-one jumped to any conclusions from his
assessment, saying at the time: “My opinion, and let’s not make any assumptions because it is a neutral opinion as someone
who watches football, I thought he showed everything today of what he is.
“We have a back line which is usually really aggressive and able to recover the ball in the first moment of impact but with
him it takes you two, three or four times and then he goes and even runs the ball down into the corner. And even then he is
able to square you up and create threats to the goal.
“His final balls are also good. You know, it’s not just how he has to shoot, it’s how he brings others into the game, so yes,
Coventry have got…
“This league, to be honest, offers these types of players. Coventry have this player but other teams have players who are
really good and that’s the beauty of this league because you can watch really good players, and he’s one of them.”
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