Coventry City are poised to enjoy a fruitful 2024/25 campaign towards the top-end of the Championship after making a host of eye-catching summer arrivals – but that of Ephron Mason-Clark could provide Mark Robins with a real selection headache within his forward line, which contains Haji Wright.
The Sky Blues finished ninth in last term’s divisional standings amid a mightily-impressive charge to the FA Cup semi-finals, where they were somewhat harshly undone by Manchester United on spot-kicks. Indeed, Coventry’s sluggish finish to 23/24 can reasonably be attributed to the energy that was drained from the squad by putting blood, sweat and tears into a shot at improbable cup glory for the first time since 1987, so there is underlying context and subsequent latitude to factor in.
Nonetheless, Coventry have been steadily progressing under Robins’ tutelege for a number of years now and have committed to undertaking an ambitious summer window in order to realise their ambitions of finally returning to the Premier League, which many have tipped them to do this season.
The likes of Jack Rudoni, Oliver Dovin and Brandon Thomas-Asante have all signed, while Mason-Clark is now properly a Coventry player after being bought back in January but loaned back to Peterborough United as per the agreement between the two sides.
Ephron Mason-Clark could be a top signing for Coventry City
According to reports, Coventry shelled out £4.25m to acquire Mason-Clark from Peterborough earlier this year, with Posh owner Darragh MacAnthony believed to have been unwilling to sell the forward without the guarantee of a return clause.
The 25-year-old maintained his fine form in the third-tier of English football after returning to Peterborough for the second half of the previous season. He ultimately finished the campaign with 19 goals and 13 assists across all competitions as Posh won the EFL Trophy but fell short of promotion by losing to Oxford United in the League One play-off semi-finals.
From Dwight Gayle and Britt Assombalonga to Ivan Toney and Sammie Szmodics, Peterborough have a healthy reputation of developing and eventually returning significant profits for players to thrive at Championship level and beyond – and Mason-Clarke has all the ability to do exactly that.
Extremely quick off the mark and technically-gifted with superb 1v1 and creative qualities, Mason-Clark thrives in almost every relevant metric for wingers and is most at home on the left-side of a front three, where he blossomed into one of the most exciting wide players across the EFL while with Peterborough.
His arrival at the CBS Arena, however, may well promise to give Robins a real dilemma.
Mark Robins will have Ephron Mason-Clarke, Haji Wright Coventry City issue
Now, the conundrum is that Coventry already had a 19-goal left-winger before this summer in the form of Haji Wright. It had felt as though the USA international would feature as a striker for Robins’ side having previously played there in his career, but he was instead entrusted on the left-hand side last term and was one of Coventry’s top performers.
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