Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that he feels his side are ready for the new season.
When asked if his team were ready for the League One season which starts with Wigan Athletic on Saturday, Mowbray told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner: “Yes, I think so. You try to build a squad that can get you through 46 games a season.
"At this moment we’re fully aware that the squad isn’t deep enough to do that so if we pick up a key injury or someone loses form the team suffers
“But at this moment, this early on, we’re OK. We have enough with the personnel. We’re working really hard, of course, to tip teams over to allowing us to sign some players.
"But as I have said all along, I would rather be patient and get the right ones than take the dozens that are on offer to us.
“Experience tells me to get the players I want to work with, get the players you can trust and want to be part of what you’re trying to build because then through the bad days they stay with you longer.
“If you just pick random players because they play in this position or that position and don’t know much about their personality or don’t have any recommendations that he’s a great lad then there’s the danger that on the bad days, the days after defeats when you need the group to re-focus and set again, it becomes much more difficult with a poor group of players to actually lift them up to go again.
“That’s why I always put a lot of stock in trying to get the right ones. I’d rather play 40 games with the right players and four, five or six without a full squad, with a smaller group to get us through it.
“We’ll try to get the right ones if we can rather than fill the squad up because we can because there’s still a lot of players out there still unattached to clubs.”
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