Source: FOOTYMAD
Boothroyd to look at quality loan signings
Half term report: OK but could do better. Coventry City boss Aidy Boothroyd is considering the loan market in the new year as an option to boost his squad for the final push up the table toward a possible automatic promotion place or more realistically a play off berth in the top six. Coventry City are the only club in the Npower Championship who do not have any players on loan at the club. Danny Ward was the only loan player, but since his return to Bolton, City have done reasonably well with their own players. // '); // ]]> “I didn’t know that,” Boothroyd admitted. “It shows what we’ve done it without any outside help. We’ve mixed and matched and muddled through with the players we’ve got, with people like Martin Cranie and Richard Wood doing really well at left back. It’s not a deliberate policy, it’s just the way things have bounced, and we might be changing that." “When you look at the teams who are up there doing well they’ve made a good use of the loan market. In the past I’ve been fortunate enough to do that, but it’s important you make the right choices. If they’re no better than what you’ve already got and what you’ve got coming through the youth ranks, there’s no point, but we all know what a lift it can give you if you can bring in a player who’s at a higher level, like Cardiff did when they got Craig Bellamy, who’s played in The Champions League." "I’m not saying we’re going to get a Craig Bellamy, but there are certain people who we think could add to the party.” Boothroyd, had a long meeting with club chairman Ray Ranson yesterday and the two discussed how they thought the season had gone so far and how they could improve. Boothroyd said, “We’ve had lots of private conversations about where we are now, where we’ve come from, where we want to go and what we’ve got to do to get there. It’s certainly not panic stations, but there are a couple of areas where we can strengthen a little bit, add a bit more variety in how we attack and defend." “I know who I want but getting them is a different thing. That’s why I never say who I’m looking at because we might not get them, if we do it’s a bonus, if we don’t nobody’s the wiser. “We do want to be better, we want to progress. Our half-term report is pretty much ‘done OK, could do better.’ My job is to see whether I can stimulate that improvement.”
