Coventry City transfer news from CoventryLive as Sky Blues send firm message to Premier League vultures
Coventry City owner Doug King is claimed to have slapped a £200m price tag on Haji Wright
Coventry City are claimed to have slapped a whopping £200million price tag on star striker Haji Wright following an inquiry from West Ham United ahead of the January transfer window.
That’s according to the Daily Telegraph which also states that the Hammers have also looked into the availability of fellow Sky Blues front man Ellis Simms.
Frank Lampard’s former club have made a new number nine their priority ahead of the upcoming transfer window after agreeing to send flop Niklas Fullkrug to AC Milan on loan, reports talkSPORT.
The broadcaster further claims that “with moves for Manchester United’s Joshua Zirkzee and Promise David looking difficult to pull off, the Hammers could dip into the second tier,” claiming USA internationals Wright and Josh Sargent – who have scored eight and six goals for Coventry and Norwich respectively this season – are on their wanted list.
The Daily Telegraph adds: “As an alternative, Nuno (Espirito Santo) is interested in Coventry City ’s Ellis Simms although it would appear highly unlikely that the promotion-chasing Championship leaders would even contemplate selling the 24-year-old former Everton striker.
“There has also been an enquiry for Simms’s team-mate Haji Wright which was summarily dismissed by Coventry who quoted a price of £200m for the American international.”
Turkish club Besiktas has also been linked with interest in Wright but when asked about speculation surrounding both Simms and Wright, Lampard told CoventryLive on Friday: “I’m very keen to keep hold of them because they’re two very, very big players for us, amongst others.
“And if we want to do what we want to do this season, we have to keep our best players and look at how can we add to make the squad even more competitive and even stronger.”
The Sky Blues are in the strongest position they have been in in the last 25 years to secure a return to the Premier League and are not going to do anything to jeopardise the chance of automatic promotion after getting to the halfway stage of the campaign 11 points clear of the play-off places at the top of the league.
Therefore, unless City are offered crazy money for Wright and have a ready-made replacement guaranteed to come in, it is highly unlikely that they would even entertain a conversation with another club at this pivotal point in the club’s history.
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