The line between takeover and administration is definitely hovering either way and Dowie, to the club website, said about his squad:
"We have tried very hard to stay focused on football related issues. "I am the football manager and that's what I concentrate on and the boys have stayed single-minded.
"They know it's a results business and that the best thing they can do to get this club to get out of the situation it's in is by putting some results together and make Coventry City an attractive proposition to takeover."
He also singled out Geoffrey Robinson for praise saying to the CT: "Geoffrey Robinson has got a hell of a lot of money at stake. "He's invested in this club and may come out with not as much as he'd like perhaps very little.
"He brought me to this club, so my loyalty is to people like that and the players who have been outstanding since Day One."