Coventry City manager Steven Pressley has admitted that the club needs to be better at recruiting players.
Many City supporters have wondered what the City boss saw in the likes of Mathieu Manset or some of the players he has taken on loan and speaking to the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner, Pressley admitted: Reflecting on this season, one of the areas we must improve on as a football club is recruitment and as manager I take responsibility for that.
“It’s an area I saw as needing significant improvement when I first came in because we didn’t have a real scouting network in place, and it has taken us time.
"In the last month we now have a scout in the South, one in the North East, one in North West and one in Scotland as well as Graham Brown who is heading up the operation in the Midlands.
“Slowly but surely we’re bringing together a team which means that every weekend we have got five or six eyes looking at players that are on our list of potential targets.
“To be honest, even going into January we didn’t have background checks on players and we need to do far more of that before we make new signings.
"A number of signings this season have been rushed and we haven’t managed to do the correct amount of due diligence because we haven’t had the resources to do so.
“I spoke to Steve Waggott and Joy Seppala about this and said it’s something we have to invest in because, ultimately, the biggest cost to a football club is bad signings.
“There have been a number I would consider this season and with a little bit of investment in your recruitment you make fewer bad signings. So it’s an area we are investing in and an area we have to improve in because if we are to develop our own young players it has to be a combination of them with good signings.
“The biggest thing is recognising the errors we’ve made and why we’ve made them. And the truth is we’ve made them because of a lack of resources in these areas, and now we’re investing in these areas to stop making that ”