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Coventry City

  1. Matt Grimes

  3. Coventry players celebrate

  4. Liam Manning celebrates while Louie Barry is pictured in a Hull kit

  5. Coventry part company with ex-caretaker boss Carr

    Coventry City interim boss Rhys CarrRex Features

    Rhys Carr's three games in charge of Coventry City in November brought two 2-2 draws at Sunderland and at home to Sheffield United and a 2-0 defeat at Burnley

    Coventry City first-team coach Rhys Carr has left after seven months working for the Championship club.

    Carr ed the Sky Blues' coaching staff in June from Wolves as part of then boss Mark Robins' summer backroom reshuffle.

    He then took over as interim boss for three games between the sacking of Robins on 7 November and Frank Lampard's appointment three weeks later, when Carr returned to his position as first-team coach.

    But, in a statement, the Sky Blues said that "the club and Rhys have now mutually decided to part ways".

    The statement added: "Coventry City would like to wish Rhys the best of luck for the future and thank him for his contribution to the club, including his work with the players and staff day-to-day at Ryton and his period as interim head coach.

    Prior to ing City, Carr had been elite player development coach for two years at Wolves, spent six months as lead professional development phase coach with Bristol Rovers and almost two years as individual development coach at Sheffield United.

    City currently sit 12th in the Championship, six points shy of a play-off place, having lost just three of their first 13 games under Lampard.

  6. Pick of the stats: Swansea City v Coventry City

    Swansea City and Coventry City club badges

    Coventry City travel to Swansea City on Saturday afternoon, looking to extend their three-game winning run.

    The Sky Blues are 12th in the Championship and six points off the play-off spots, having lost just one of their past seven games (W4 D2).

    Swansea have slipped to 17th, seven points above the drop zone, after a run of five games without victory (D1 L4).

    • Swansea City are unbeaten across their past 18 league games against Coventry City (W8 D10), since a 3-1 away defeat in October 1981.

    • Coventry City have failed to win any of their past 12 away league games against Swansea City (D6 L6), failing to score more than one goal in any of those matches.

    • Swansea have lost each of their past three league games and will be looking to avoid losing four in succession for the first time since April 2021.

    • Coventry have won each of their past three league games and could win four in succession for the first time since November 2022.

    • Since a 1-0 away win over Cardiff in August 2007, Coventry have won just one of their 17 away league games against sides from Wales (D7 L9).

  7. Matt Grimes arrives at a Swansea game earlier this season

  8. 'Grimes is exactly what we need in midfield'

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    Swansea City midfielder Matt Grimes, who has been linked with Coventry

    The potential arrival of Swansea City captain Matt Grimes is "exactly what Coventry City need" to bolster the midfield, according to Sky Blues fan Anthony Hornsby.

    Coventry have seen two bids for Grimes knocked back but have returned with a third offer and remain hopeful of g the 29-year-old before the transfer window closes on Monday.

    "You want him on your team rather than against you every single time, don't you? And what a fantastic intent of g that is as well," Hornsby told BBC CWR's Sky Blues Fancast.

    "I'm just waiting for the news for him to come. I'll be very disappointed if he doesn't. It's exactly what we need.

    "He's very similar to the capabilities of [Jack] Rudoni but he just sits that little bit deeper, so it fills that midfield amazingly and you just pick the third player to go with him and it compliments the other two.

    "He's about ball retention and getting the team moving. We've spent years and years chasing the ball around against Swansea, not being able to get it off them and thinking 'why can't we play like this">