Luke Mcnally (5 Viewers)

[no_loyalty]

Great news if true.

Let's get Doyle back on loan too

He’s been linked with a permanent transfer to Leicester.

 

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[kg82]

As we’re clearly minted and the Man City of the Championship now, I’d like to see us bring in a new Fadz as well as a couple at RCB and LCB, Latibeudaire apparently looked decent at CB and I think can play a Josh Pask esque role covering at RWB and RCB. Burroughs and Eccles can cover there too. Get van Ewijk in at RWB, McNally at RCB. I like the look at Watmough at Wigan as a Fadz understudy, and available for free. Kitching at LCB with Humphries on loan to challenge. Then I’d probably move Bidders on and buy or loan an attack minded paced LWB. Ideally swap Moore out for proper competition for Wilson too.

Whose Humphries? Missed this one

 

[covcity4life]

He’s been linked with a permanent transfer to Leicester.

Nah he's too highly rated for that surerly? Would have thought man city keep him around. Homegrown quota and all that

 

[Bertola]

Whose Humphries? Missed this one

Bashir Humphries. Centre back from Chelsea. Linked with a loan here

 

[shmmeee]

Whose Humphries? Missed this one

Obligatory Chelsea player linked with a loan to us left footed CB.

 

[PVA]

Nah he's too highly rated for that surerly? Would have thought man city keep him around. Homegrown quota and all that

City do it all the time – sell a promising youngster and put in a buyback clause.

 

[hill83]

City do it all the time – sell a promising youngster and put in a buyback clause.

Do we?

 

[covcity4life]

City do it all the time – sell a promising youngster and put in a buyback clause.

Be gutted if he goes Leicester

 

[Manchester_sky_blue]

Whose Humphries? Missed this one

Chelsea Yoof

 

[napolimp]

Happy if the rumours are true and he comes back to the CBS, impressed overall bar a couple of ropey games he was solid and on the front foot for a tackle

Get McNally back for the tackle against Sunderland alone.

 

[SkyblueDad]

Great news if true.

Let's get Doyle back on loan too

Talk of £10million for him, if the rumours are true should we go for him or this lad Liam Kitchin cheaper option or both.

 

[SBT]

Probably , hadn't seen it .. any legs in it ?

There was a picture of McNally in it, so yes , two of them.

 

[usskyblue]

Trying to buy, might have to settle for a season long loan apparently..

Coventry City step up bid to bring Luke McNally back from Burnley

Coventry City transfer news from CoventryLive as Sky Blues keep working on deal for defensive summer target

www.coventrytelegraph.net

 

[Kingokings204]

Trying to buy, might have to settle for a season long loan apparently..

Coventry City step up bid to bring Luke McNally back from Burnley

Coventry City transfer news from CoventryLive as Sky Blues keep working on deal for defensive summer target

www.coventrytelegraph.net

brilliant news. Don’t care either way as long as we get him back. Think there is even more to come from him. Quality player

 

[ajsccfc]

A permanent signing would be great but I'd be delighted to have him back for the season however it comes about.

 

[larry_david]

A known and trusted quality who will only get better. Get this one over the line, with Hamer signing a new deal. Oh boy

 

[djr8369]

Trying to buy, might have to settle for a season long loan apparently..

Coventry City step up bid to bring Luke McNally back from Burnley

Coventry City transfer news from CoventryLive as Sky Blues keep working on deal for defensive summer target

www.coventrytelegraph.net

Says 2m. Chuck 3 from the Vic money at them, surely an investment.

 

[San Francisco]

Says 2m. Chuck 3 from the Vic money at them, surely an investment.

Would be one of our best investments so far.

 

[Macca1987]

Or try to do a Sheaf, season long loan with option to buy

 

[shmmeee]

McNally, Hamer, Vente and another CB plus Latibeaudaire this week please.

 

[Speedie's Head]

We should have got him from Oxford, I reckon the chance has gone now - he was too good. I'd want to know who else there might be now. It's pretty rare that loans come back anyway but there are the odd exceptions that prove the rule.

We've lost Rose and Hyam we need to be investing in our own players under our own contracts.

 

[SleepyGinger]

Wonder if we still have any interest in CJ Egan Riley. I’d imagine he’ll be leaving Burnley this summer either on loan or permanently.

 

[stay_up_skyblues]

We should have got him from Oxford, I reckon the chance has gone now - he was too good. I'd want to know who else there might be now. It's pretty rare that loans come back anyway but there are the odd exceptions that prove the rule.

Richard Duffy just spat out his tea reading this.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Richard Duffy just spat out his tea reading this.

And Luke Steele

 

[RegTheDonk]

Lad was great last year, DK should make this his 2nd priority. Loan is fine but he'll only increase in value. Make them a sensible offer now while they are overflowing with defenders.

 

[TomRad85]

McNally, Hamer, Vente and another CB plus Latibeaudaire this week please.

not impossible but sounds too good to be true for a single week. Erect as fuck if it happens though.

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

Getting him back should be our number one priority for the rest of the window. We desperately need centre backs and being able to sign one as good as McNally, while simultaneously maintaining some continuity in the backline would be excellent business. Get it done, Doug.

 

[Speedie's Head]

We were all gutted when Osti didn't come back but there's always plenty more David Nish in the Franny Lee

 

[Frostie]

We should have got him from Oxford, I reckon the chance has gone now - he was too good. I'd want to know who else there might be now. It's pretty rare that loans come back anyway but there are the odd exceptions that prove the rule.

We've lost Rose and Hyam we need to be investing in our own players under our own contracts.

We tried. Burnley beat us to him.

 

[Speedie's Head]

We tried. Burnley beat us to him.

Yeah, we missed the boat I think. We're not going to splash £4m even if Burnley would sell.

Who's coming through the system the year behind Doyle and co...

 

[shmmeee]

Wilson/Moore
Sakamoto/Lats
McNally/Lats
Fadz/??
LCB/Bidwell
DaSilva/Bidwell
Hamer/Eccles
Sheaf/Kelly
Palmer/Allen/O’Hare/Sakamoto
Simms/Vente/Godden/Tavares

If we could go into August with something like that, then just loans and maybe the odd free to pad it out before the window closes I’d be very happy. Would still need a CB, LCB, ST and arguably an AM and GK.

 

[Offhegoes]

I'm not adverse to switching Bidwell to the back 3. He played well there at the end of the 21/22 season, and has all the right attributes (apart from height).

 

[napolimp]

Wilson/Moore
Sakamoto/Lats
McNally/Lats
Fadz/??
LCB/Bidwell
DaSilva/Bidwell
Hamer/Eccles
Sheaf/Kelly
Palmer/Allen/O’Hare/Sakamoto
Simms/Vente/Godden/Tavares

If we could go into August with something like that, then just loans and maybe the odd free to pad it out before the window closes I’d be very happy. Would still need a CB, LCB, ST and arguably an AM and GK.

In that scenario you would actually have 21 players of enough quality to be in the match day squad. You could drop Tavares on match day with a fit squad of players, but there wouldn't actually be space for any further loan players on the bench, and I presume they would need to be. I think at this point you're either buying or loaning the players still to come in - Vente or Loan, Mcnally or Loan, Latibeaudaire or Loan, other CB or Loan, etc. The remaining non-match day squad can be padded out with the likes of Howley, Burroughs, Rus, (Tavares), Tyler, etc. Although I do think the overall squad is very light on back-up young defenders.

 

[shmmeee]

In that scenario you would actually have 21 players of enough quality to be in the match day squad. You could drop Tavares on match day with a fit squad of players, but there wouldn't actually be space for any further loan players on the bench, and I presume they would need to be. I think at this point you're either buying or loaning the players still to come in - Vente or Loan, Mcnally or Loan, Latibeaudaire or Loan, other CB or Loan, etc. The remaining non-match day squad can be padded out with the likes of Howley, Burroughs, Rus, (Tavares), Tyler, etc. Although I do think the overall squad is very light on back-up young defenders.

Not everyone is going to be fit and on form at once, I’d have all the kids you mention out on loan. We’re going for the Prem, we really should be giving Robins all possible options to change games from the bench not using it as work experience.

I think we need 23/24 of Championship quality to make a sustained go of it this season. I suspect Kelly, Fadz and Godden won’t play big parts. We shouldn’t be in the situation we were several times last year where our formation was dictated to us by injuries and not our game plan.

 

[napolimp]

I do agree in principle, but of the 20 players listed I don't know how many you would be able to keep out of the match day squad for an extended period of time. And whilst some players could be out for extended periods - O'hare - could well have a near fully fit squad as well. Are we really the sort of club who can have championship quality/paid players not even on the bench. Could be we use the loan system to cover ourselves - players out injured in September, bring in replacements, players out injured in January, bring in replacements. I'm also unsure if Burroughs (especially), Tavares, and Howley will be out on loan.