Frank Lampard will get the chance to make changes to his Coventry City squad in the coming months with the summer transfer window opening at the beginning of June for a ten day period before reopening again on June 16.
The Sky Blues are expected to have a reasonably busy close season as the head coach looks to stamp his own mark in his first big transfer window since taking charge last November.
Although City only have two senior players out of contract – midfielders Jamie Allen and Jamie Paterson – the likes of Fabio Tavares is set for a move to Burton Albion while senior development players Jack Burroughs, Ryan Howley and Cian Tyler are also reaching the end of their current deals.
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There will, no doubt, be others who are in contract but may be deemed surplus to requirement, while the club may look to cash in on one or two in order to help replenish the squad elsewhere.
Whether there will be a big money signing or not remains to be seen, while there will also be plenty of free agents available for hire.
But what about the loan market? Doug King has steered away from that particular option over the last 12 months with Coventry not taking a single temporary player this last season for the first time in many a year.
What used to be a staple of the summer transfer window for the Sky Blues has become almost obsolete as the club have preferred to invest in their own players to ensure they retain any future resale value.
However, one wonders whether that is all about to change. Lampard has enjoyed the benefits of loan players in previous managerial posts, not least when he was at fellow Championship club Derby County a few years ago and took advantage of his close Chelsea connections.
City also have a potentially interesting goalkeeping conundrum this summer with first choice Oliver Dovin set to remain sidelined with an ACL injury for several months of the 2025/26 campaign. And although Brad Collins has another year left on his contract, it remains unclear whether he figures in Lampard’s plans following a difficult spell at the club. That leaves Ben Wilson as the only senior stopper.
The question is, will the club seek out a new permanent signing to compete for the No.1 shirt or go down the loan route to get a season-long deal to plug the gap until Dovin’s return.
As City begin to plot their transfers for next season, here CoventryLive brings you the 85 loans that are set to end this season and may well be let out on loan again next term.
Goalkeepers
Mark Travers (Middlesbrough from Bournemouth)
James Beadle (Sheffield Wednesday from Brighton)
Defenders
Dion Sanderson (Blackburn from Birmingham)
Owen Beck (Blackburn from Liverpool)
Bashir Humphreys (Burnley from Chelsea)
Nat Phillips (Derby from Liverpool)
Finley Burns (Hull from Man City)
Kal Naismith (Luton from Bristol City)
Ryan Giles (Middlesbrough from Hull)
Zak Sturge (Millwall from Chelsea)
Calum Scanlon (Millwall from Liverpool)
Callum Doyle (Norwich City from Man City)
Ben Nelson (Leicester City from Oxford)
Nikola Katic (Plymouth Argyle from Zürich)
Tymoteusz Puchacz (Plymouth Argyle from Holstein Kiel)
Rob Atkinson (Portsmouth from Bristol City)
Kaine Kesler-Hayden (Preston from Aston Villa)
Ryan Porteous (Preston from Watford)
Jayden Meghoma (Preston from Brentford)
Ronnie Edwards (QPR from Southampton)
Harrison Ashby (QPR from Newcastle)
Harry Souttar (Sheffield United from Leicester)
Alfie Gilchrist (Sheffield United from Chelsea)
Harry Clarke (Sheffield United from Ipswich)
Rob Holding (Sheffield United from Crystal Palace)
Josh Wilson-Esbrand ( Stoke from Man City)
Ashley Phillips (Stoke from Tottenham)
Chris Mepham (Sunderland from Bournemouth)
Hannes Delcroix (Swansea from Burnley)
Yasser Larouci (Watford from Troyes)
James Abankwah (Watford from Udinese)
Paddy McNair (West Brom from San Diego)
Mason Holgate (West Brom from Everton)
Midfielders
George Earthy (Bristol City from West Ham)
Will Alves (Cardiff from Leicester)
Sivert Mannsverk (Cardiff from Ajax)
David Ozoh (Derby from Crystal Palace)
Harrison Armstrong (Derby from Everton)
Marcus Harness (Derby from Ipswich)
Gustavo Puerta (Hull from Bayer Leverkusen)
Lincoln (Hull from Fenerbache)
Joe Rothwell (Leeds from Bournemouth)
Josh Bowler (Luton from Nottingham Forest)
Ryan Wintle (Millwall from Cardiff)
Jacob Wright (Norwich from Man City)
Alex Matos (Oxford from Chelsea)
Darko Gyabi (Plymouth from Leeds)
Isaac Hayden (Portsmouth from Newcastle)
Freddie Potts (Portsmouth from West Ham)
Adil Aouchiche (Portsmouth from Sunderland)
Sam Greenwood (Preston from Leeds)
Karamoko Dembele (QPR from Brest)
Hamza Choudhury (Sheffield United from Leicester City)
Shea Charles (Sheffield Wednesday from Southampton)
Andrew Moran (Stoke from Brighton)
Enzo Le Fee (Sunderland from Roma)
Salis Abdul Samed (Sunderland from Lens)
Lewis O'Brien (Swansea from Nottingham Forest)
Forwards
Amario Cozier-Duberry (Blackburn from Brighton)
Cauley Woodrow (Blackburn from Luton)
Jeremy Sarmiento (Burnley from Brighton)
Marcus Edwards (Burnley from Sporting Lisbon)
Jaidon Anthony (Burnley from Bournemouth)
Jerry Yates (Derby County from Swansea)
Joe Gelhardt (Hull from Leeds United)
Louie Barry (Hull from Aston Villa)
Manor Solomon (Leeds from Tottenham)
Samuel Iling-Junior (Middlesbrough from Aston Villa)
Kelechi Iheanacho (Middlesbrough from Sevilla)
Ben Doak (Middlesbrough from Liverpool)
Josh Coburn (Millwall from Middlesbrough)
Lewis Dobbin (Norwich from Aston Villa)
Muhamed Tijani (Plymouth from Slavia Prague)
Michael Obafemi (Plymouth from Burnley)
Kaide Gordon (Portsmouth from Liverpool)
Mark O'Mahony (Portsmouth from Brighton)
Koki Saito (QPR from Lommel)
Min-hyeok Yang (QPR from Tottenham)
Jesurun Rak-Sakyi (Sheffield United from Crystal Palace)
Ben Brereton Diaz (Sheffield United from Southampton)
Ibrahim Cissoko (Plymouth from Toulouse)
Lewis Koumas (Stoke from Liverpool)
Ali Al-Hamadi (Stoke from Ipswich)
Jayden Danns (Sunderland from Liverpool)
Myles Peart-Harris (Swansea from Brentford)
Adam Armstrong (West Brom from Southampton)
Will Lankshear (West Brom from Tottenham)
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