Former player news

19 July 2010 10:18
Best scores, Grandison impresses, but Wynter doesn't Three of Coventry City's former players have had a mixed weekend in pre season friendlies. Leon Best finally managed to score  a goal for Newcastle United, nearly six months after he left Coventry City on the last day of the January transfer window. Since his move to the north east he has failed to impress the Newcastle fans and he has failed to score a single goal. The Republic of Ireland international was Coventry City's leading scorer at the time of his transfer. He finally managed to get a goal in Newcastle's 3-0 win over Carlisle on Saturday. He scored the first of the tree Newcastle goals. Newcastle boss Chris Hughton, who has always backed Best to Succeed, told the Sunday Sun, “Leon has come back looking very sharp. It’s his first goal in a Newcastle shirt and that is something special.” Another former City player Joel Grandison made an impressive debut on trial for Doncaster Rovers against non league Quorn, Rovers manager Sean O'Driscoll said, "Joel has just been released from Coventry and he has been recommended and he is local to where we are, so it is worth having a look, but the downside is that it is difficult to bring three players in that know the way we do things but we have to do it." The news for another former Coventry academy graduate was not so good. Full back Curtis Wynter, who has been having a trial with League one Tranmere Rovers, has failed to impress and has not been offered a contract .  

Source: FOOTYMAD