Coventry City manager Steven Pressley has said that the club need to improves its recruitment of players.
“When I first came to the English game my knowledge of lower league players wasn’t great, and it was a weakness of mine,” admitted Pressley to the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner, “so it’s something I need to improve on and I need my recruitment team to provide me with the information on.
“We had a meeting about recruitment last week because we really have to get better on that. I am the manager and therefore responsible but it’s an area where we need greater resource.
“Graham Brown heads up the recruitment just now and we’ve got six or seven guys on the road but that’s just been since the start of the season, and slowly but surely we’re creating a database.
“But I’ve been saying that for some time we need to improve our recruitment. It’s an area of the club – and I’m involved in that – where we must make fewer mistakes because you can work on the training ground day in and day out but you need the players to carry out those instructions. So we must do better.
“And I think January is going to be very important to us when we need to make fewer mistakes on the transfers of players. The biggest thing for me is that we get players in who can carry out the type of game plan that I want, and that’s based around the fundamentals of intensity and hard work.
“The encouraging thing for me was that although we lost at the weekend, it wasn’t through a lack of application or effort, which were first class, as they were on Wednesday against Plymouth.
“Obviously Worcester was a real disappointment but the reaction from the players in the two games since in terms of their work ethic has been first class. The starting point of any team’s success has to be hard work and it’s vital in our recruitment that we get players who can carry out those aspects.”
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