{"id":866982,"date":"2026-08-22T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866982\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:20:09","slug":"coventry-city-premier-league-return-was-about-more-than-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866982\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry City: Premier League return was about more than result"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since winning the Championship by 11 points from Ipswich Town<\/a>, Coventry have spent about \u00a3130m, breaking their transfer record four times already this summer.<\/p>\n

They have signed midfielder Frank Onyeka, centre-back Aurele Amenda, winger Loum Tchaouna and goalkeeper Carl Rushworth, while Ghana midfielder Caleb Yirenkyi was their record signing at \u00a323.1m.<\/p>\n

All five started at the Emirates, while fellow new arrivals, Gustavo Hamer from Sheffield United and striker Taiwo Awoniyi from Nottingham Forest<\/a>, came on as substitutes. <\/p>\n

All of them have top-flight or international experience, as well as physicality to their game, but even those additions did little to prevent Arsenal<\/a> from asserting their superiority on Friday night. <\/p>\n

When asked what Lampard told the players at full-time, captain Matt Grimes said: “Our season won’t be defined by coming to places like this and getting beaten. Coming here against players like this is always going to be a tough ask.”<\/p>\n

But a game that could define their season follows next week when they host Hull City<\/a> – who came up through the play-offs – at the Coventry Building Society Arena. <\/p>\n

The Sky Blues have the toughest opening schedule of any team this season, according to Opta<\/a>, with trips against Manchester City<\/a> and Nottingham Forest<\/a> to come next month, so the game against Hull takes on greater significance. <\/p>\n

The teams played out goalless draws in both meetings in the Championship last season. <\/p>\n

“With that start, we have to remain calm,” admitted Lampard.<\/p>\n

“We want to get rolling. We had a good feeling last year of winning games and it makes everything pretty easy. It won’t be so easy this year, but we want to get those points for sure.”<\/p>\n

Returning to the Premier League was hard for the Sky Blues. But now it gets even harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since winning the Championship by 11 points from Ipswich Town, Coventry have spent about \u00a3130m, breaking their transfer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-866982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}