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Thorn plans 'bang, bang, bang'

Andy Thorn: Coventry manager's hands are tied with club still under transfer embargo
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Coventry manager Andy Thorn has a number of summer targets in his sights but cannot agree any deals until the club's transfer embargo is lifted.

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Coventry boss has targets in sights when embargo is lifted

Coventry manager Andy Thorn has a number of summer targets in his sights but cannot agree any deals until the club's transfer embargo is lifted. The Sky Blues will be plying their trade in League One next season after suffering relegation from the Championship and are currently unable to bring in any new players. A failure to file their accounts on time led to the Football League imposing the embargo, which is unlikely to be lifted until an agreement is reached between club owners Sisu, Coventry City Council and ACL, the company which runs the Ricoh Arena. Thorn will only be looking to bring in players who do not cost a fee, but accepts his hands are tied until the problems behind the scenes are rectified.

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"The players I am looking at are free transfers so they are not going to cost anything," Thorn told the Coventry Telegraph. "First of all we need to come out of the transfer embargo and then as soon as that happens we need to go bang, bang, bang. "They are all there but until we come out of the embargo we can't do anything. "We're working hard on our targets and got players lined up, who we know want to come, but we're still not sure what market we're in."

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