We are well funded but that means we can buy without selling. look at Burley until we got promoted? Sold top players every summer and had to replace them for less, or under Mick who must have made a massive transfer profit in his time here. We don't have to sell to buy but £6m-£8m… Coventry can only pay that because they are getting three times that from a sale. The rest won't be be spent.

he will be in the european cup with coventry in a few years time........not

We'd be better off going for Johnson Clarke-Harris, even though it means dealing with Peterborough again! Think he's still on the transfer list there.

Not too bothered that's ridiculous money for potential and a player who cannot get in their first team. Reading the Sunderland Facebook pages when they were linked with actually buying him for 4 million they weren't too keen and I guess they've seen him more than most on here and me! 7 million is alot for potential and without a prolific record. I'd have him for 4 but twice as much no thanks. Whoever we get in I trust McKenna 100%

Coventry have lost a better player to have the money for him so initially at least he is a downgrade.

Look at Gianni Bruno. Fraction of the cost.

£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

This ^^^^ is ALL it's about in the game these days. Everton creaming it. Coventry splashing it because they've creamed it from a sale of another player.

We have money, clearly. But we have common sense and won't be ripped off, and as Ashton has already said, we are sticking to our plan, without emotion.

We await the players who want to come here because they will have bought into that vision too, and not just their bank balance.

Looks like we losing out on our top target!
Twits on here putting simms down!
He will be one of if not the best striker in the championship!
Money talks in football and been out bidded simple as that!

Some fool
claiming players bishop,Yates surridge are better players lol!

Move on next target!

Churchmans We more thsn likely weren't even interested in him. Have u heard anyone from the club suggest we were? No, just believing the rubbish social media sites and lazy journalists, eho will link us with

Every player going. If we'd have wanted him, we'd have got him.

Geoff Hirst, Phil?

Ignore me, I'm off to the opticians!

Not too worried about this. Father in law is a Sunderland supporter and was largely unimpressed with him during his time there.

Joyous blue: totally agree with your comments.
Powrigan: Coventry aren't a nothing club. They have been dealt some hefty blows over the last 10 years, worse than anything we have had. In fact they have spent more time in the top flight than us l believe. I take an interest in them because my Mrs comes from Coventry.

I´m guessing we probably were interested, but Coventry were simply willing to pay more. After all, they have a big hole to fill and money with which to fill it. I also think Simms will be a productive player at Championship level, no point in denying that. But I've no problem with us not entering into a bidding war above what we valued the player at. Thankfully, we are not that kind of club under our current regime. On to the next one.

Love how opinions change once he is not ours! "Clumsy first touch" lol. Quality player, but we aren't quite with the Coventrys of the division yet. Lets have a year adjusting, staying in the league and then look to push on. Teams have £80m windfalls in this league, we can't compete with that!

We probably could, but choose not to.

Without emotion
Staying true to ourselves
Keeping to our plan
Steady, methodical progression

Statement of intent from Coventry. Add to the list of serious contenders for promotion in this league . Id rather hoped they might just give up after selling Goykres. Dash

Have to be a bit realistic we are not a big fish in a small pond in this league, we have to stick to our realistic budget. I think we need two strikers to be fair not to sure about Freddie Jackson and Piggot in this league. Would be happy with Hirst coming back but would Leicester sell to us now that we are rivals ? Same with Armstrong at Southampton, Surrige may be possible as Forest may sell. Yates seems to have gone off the radar in the press lately. Would'nt be supprised if we came up with someone who has not been mentioned yet. Lad at Hearts scores goals Lawrence Shankland ?

Hope he is ok for Coventry but personally not for me…….glad we did not buy Believe in McKenna

Anyone know what our scouting network is like now? Would be interesting to look at some overseas players, probably cheaper and desperate to play for a club on the way to the Premier League.

blues1 I'd imagine that it's more a case of we were interested in him for a reasonable fee and as soon as the fee went higher than we were prepared to pay, we lost interest. A player is not a better player because we paid more for him. At the same time, he will probably do quite well at Coventry. Good luck to him, just not against us.

Razor, I'm thinking exactly the same thing. Any kind of association with a premier league club inflates the price, but premier league players move to the Championship because they are not up to the standard, so should not be up to the price either. A talented European player is always going to be better value than a talented Englishman.

Dylan vente. Dutch striker...I say no more

Churchmans
Firstly, you've straight up called me "a fool" on here; I'd ask you to reflect on that before you make any comment about anyone else on here again, it does you no favours.

As for the substance (!) of your comment about my post.
"... claiming players bishop,Yates surridge are better players {than Simms}" - that's not accurate at all. I never even addressed whether they were "better players", just that I would prefer us to sign (either of 2 of) them than Simms.

You could possibly argue that I was suggesting that Yates was a better player, as I placed him with Hirst (who you left out, as presumably agree on) as the 2 that I would "far prefer" us to sign, but you deliberately left out the context that I gave for my preference.

Hirst worked so well in the team last season, because of the strengths he brings which benefitted all those around him. Chaplin, Broadhead & Burns particularly so. We were generally not as dangerous in the first half of games with Freddie up front, because his touch, hold up & lay off play is not as good as Hirst's. But Freddie really came into his own as an impact sub, where his power & pace were a nightmare for defences that had been dragged all over the place chasing around after our forwards up to that point.
I see Simms for more in Freddie style of play & believe that having him as our centre forward would have a weakening impact on the potency of those playing behind him, than a Hirst like forward would.
I see Yates as a significantly better replacement for Hirst in this respect, due to his general play, so yes, I do think he is a better player - certainly right now at this time for the season ahead - than Simms.
My Colby Bishop point, which I think was clear to most people, was very much in the context of what the individual would bring to this team right now. As we saw up to January last season, not having a fit, capable, focal point of a centre forward left us lacking in some key matches, where we couldn't break sides down. We still had Freddie, but it wasn't his game, Ahadme got injuried & wasn't ready for it. Hirst came in & that changed, particularly when he build up an understanding with Broadhead.
Colby Bishop would not be my #1 choice, but he fits that role better than Simms, in my opinion. Simms may well suit Coventry's style better than Bishop would, good luck to him.
As for Surridge, it could not be clearer that I said "... & then Surridge as the second striker", so you are just being dishonest there.