Hammer Conor Coventry could be loaned out this season instead of being sold permanently it has been claimed.
The 21-year-old Ireland under 21 international has yet to start a first-team Premier League game for the Hammers, but did play seven matches on loan at Lincoln City in the 2019-20 season and has featured in several cup games for West Ham. His appearances were limited last season after breaking the metatarsal bone in his foot.
Coventry has impressed for Hammers in their pre-season games this summer and has scored twice in the process. But Hammers boss David Moyes is said to be undecided whether he will break into his first-team squad this season so could be prepared to let him go, possibly on loan
Peterborough United lead the chase but Coventry City, Rotherham United and Hull City have also been linked with the player and are tracking his availability.
The Hammer signed a three and a half year deal in 2020 until June 2023 with an option for a further year.
The lifelong West Ham supporter born and raised in Waltham Forest, who has been at the Academy since he was ten years old.
Our squad is pitifully small and lacking cover in the very area in which Conor Coventry plays and where he has acquitted himself well in the pre-season games. He is arguably our best Academy prospect and I see yet another youth player whose senior career at West Ham is in danger of not reaching its potential simply because of lack of opportunity. Unless we are going to sign a significant number of players, which seems unlikely, we will need him for what is going to be a very long season. We have seen so many young players loaned out and not given game time but, personally, I feel that he is better than Peterborough and should be used at West Ham in preference to Mark Noble. Coventry’s playing style is similar to Declan Rice’s and we should be grooming him as his long-term replacement. Keep him at the club, where he will play against top quality opposition and bolster the squad.
Totally agree with Selsdonhammer…it would be an extremely short-sighted decision if Coventry were to be loaned for this coming season. As a squad member he’ll be a valuable addition for this coming season with the upcoming league, cup and Europe commitments. Of course he’s not yet the finished product but surely enough has been seen of him to convince the management that he’s worth his place in the squad and should be given the opportunity this season to develop and show his quality.
I agree with Suffolk, who agrees with Selsdon 😀
Conor is entitled to a chance to be part of the first team squad. What would have happened if we had treated Declan like this ? If you are good enough you are old enough.
I think playing every week in the Championship for a season would benefit him rather than the odd league cup game and bench appearance for us. Surely a wind up saying that Coventry are in for him.
Spot On!
And we could watch him play against men.
There’s NOTHING that I want more than to see our Academy players breakthrough to the first-team, but I have been So Wrong on so many occasions that I have now learnt to trust the manager, especially a manager like David Moyes.
Remember, it was Moyes who gave Wayne Rooney his Everton debut at 16 years old.
Couldn’t agree more. I’m going with the manager’s 20-ish years of managing elite football teams every time, rather than keyboard warriors.
Ha. Ha! So in 20 plus years Moyes has never been wrong? Furthermore, you don’t know the identity of these “keyboard warriors”, of which you are one.
I was fired as manager of my daughter’s team when she was six. Too mean.
That said, I doubt if Arsene and Jose are commenting on this site.
The thing we have in common is the desire to see the club do well. How we get there is where we disagree. I scream at the telly every match; wrong subs, too late, wrong shape and yet, we still won.
Who knew Moyes could occasionally get it right?
Conor is a quality act.just ask Terry Wesley who knows this lad and his abilitys inside out..i rember him saying this boy will save the club a fortune .no need for an expensive signing he is the real deal..Mark is at the end of his top flight carear..blood the lad in as Nobles replacment now because thats what he is IMHO and Terry’s..
Well said Whammer .
Hopefully just more hearsay, Noble lacks mobility, Rice could be sold, we lack cover in the tackling cdm role, Lanzini is good but he doesn’t cover enough ground like Noble. Coventry also is a more creative player than Soucek, Rice or Noble and has an eye for a goal. Hard to say if he is good enough but looked good enough against Brentford in a friendly to suggest he has a future.
This will be against Moyes wish if it happens, Sully just wanting to help out his mate Mr Fry