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Tony Mowbray has not ruled out coughing up another transfer fee to strengthen his Coventry City squad if the right player comes along at the right price.
The Sky Blues boss has switched his focus to adding pace and goals to the team after signing three defence-minded players – the club shelling out a fee for a senior player the first time in three years when they acquired combative midfielder Romain Vincelot from Leyton Orient.
But it’s all a question of getting the best out of the limited budget available, understood to be around the £2.5million mark.
“It’s all money,” said Mowbray; “it all comes out of the same pot. There’s not a transfer budget and salary budget, there’s just a budget.
“You have to weigh up what you are going to spend and give them as a salary and add it all up and ask if you can do it. In Romain’s instance, yes we could. But once it’s gone it won’t be spent again.
“We’re trying to stretch the budget as much as we can to get some forward-thinking, fast goal scorers into this building that can finish off the experience we have recruited at the back.
"That should help us keep some clean sheets and our quality in midfield will hopefully help us keep the ball and move it around to create chances to score goals.”
Mowbray, however, revealed he may draft in another defender if one of significant quality becomes available.
“If the right defensive player came along I haven’t given up in that area but it will only stretch as far as the budget goes,” said the manager.
Asked how many players, ideally, he’d still like to recruit, he said: “It’s very difficult for me to say I’d like four or five more because one of those might cost a lot of money and then we won’t be able to afford three or four and we’ll only get one.
“That’s the balance I have got. Do I get one really good player or three untried players who look like they have really good assets.
“Sometimes they work out – Dominic Samuel, for example, as a young boy in his first loan.
“That’s always a gamble because you don’t know how they are going to react to playing in front of crowds and cope with the pressure of playing with men whose mortgages and car payments are dependent on getting win bonuses, so it’s a different life to playing in the Under-21s.”
The Sky Blues boss has switched his focus to adding pace and goals to the team after signing three defence-minded players – the club shelling out a fee for a senior player the first time in three years when they acquired combative midfielder Romain Vincelot from Leyton Orient.
But it’s all a question of getting the best out of the limited budget available, understood to be around the £2.5million mark.
“It’s all money,” said Mowbray; “it all comes out of the same pot. There’s not a transfer budget and salary budget, there’s just a budget.
“You have to weigh up what you are going to spend and give them as a salary and add it all up and ask if you can do it. In Romain’s instance, yes we could. But once it’s gone it won’t be spent again.
“We’re trying to stretch the budget as much as we can to get some forward-thinking, fast goal scorers into this building that can finish off the experience we have recruited at the back.
"That should help us keep some clean sheets and our quality in midfield will hopefully help us keep the ball and move it around to create chances to score goals.”
Mowbray, however, revealed he may draft in another defender if one of significant quality becomes available.
“If the right defensive player came along I haven’t given up in that area but it will only stretch as far as the budget goes,” said the manager.
Asked how many players, ideally, he’d still like to recruit, he said: “It’s very difficult for me to say I’d like four or five more because one of those might cost a lot of money and then we won’t be able to afford three or four and we’ll only get one.
“That’s the balance I have got. Do I get one really good player or three untried players who look like they have really good assets.
“Sometimes they work out – Dominic Samuel, for example, as a young boy in his first loan.
“That’s always a gamble because you don’t know how they are going to react to playing in front of crowds and cope with the pressure of playing with men whose mortgages and car payments are dependent on getting win bonuses, so it’s a different life to playing in the Under-21s.”
