Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray is to get the cash he wants to improve the training ground.
Mowbray is keep to improve the player's working enviroment which is need of a a lick of paint and a few repairs to windows etc and speaking to the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner, Mowbray said: “Some of the discussions have been about changing the environment where players come to work.
“When they come back into this building at Ryton in the pre-season and next year they’ll see the place with a lick of paint and some branding on it – Coventry City colours. It will be a place where players will want to come to work and feel proud that they play for Coventry City.
“We’re building from the bottom really, and sometimes a fresh pair of eyes can see new things. If you have lived in this environment for many years you just accept it and get on with your work.
"Hopefully my fresh eyes that have come in and said this needs to change, that’s not good enough or correct and, without being critical of anybody, just try to take it in a different direction – what I believe is a better direction – where players can flourish.
“We have to create that on the playing field but we also have to create it in the dressing room, in the canteen and in the kit room. It’s a workplace and it has to have excellence because how can I demand excellence from the players and talk about promotion if they don’t come to work in an environment that shows excellence, that shows it’s being looked after and we have a pride in where we go to work.
“It’s basic things, basic business things. Wherever you go to work hopefully there’s a professionalism – the workforce needs to be motivated and inspired and any workforce has to have a worth and be treated properly.
“In the budgets we have got – and we aren’t Premier League or Championship – we give the players the very best we can afford so they have no excuses come match day.
“And they have to go and perform. Let’s remove all the excuses.
“The dressing rooms need a lick of paint, the car park has potholes everywhere and it needs changing – if it means redirecting a few quid off the pitch into the environment where the players come to work and then we build the team then I think it’s worth it because otherwise you never get out of where you live.
“It’s trying to move the football club on. And then when we try to sign young players from the Premier League and their coaches or assistant managers come down and have a look and watch them they see a training ground with a bit of excellence about it and think they are in good hands.
“Then they think they can send another young player here because they do it properly at Coventry.
“Steve Waggott is probably sick of me spending all his money. I just want things doing – how much is a tin of paint?
“In an ideal world there would be an army of Coventry City fans wanting to come down and put the building back into shape, whether that’s painters, tilers, roofers, guys who change windows – whatever it might be – but when the players come back in July hopefully the place will be a different environment for them.”
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