Swiss centre back Aurele Amenda is set to join Coventry for almost 20m according to the BBC\u2019s report today.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
If you enjoy CaughtOffside coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content.<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a slow start to the transfer window from newly-promoted Coventry, but they\u2019re about to get into gear with a huge deal by their standards.<\/p>\n Nizaar Kinsella of the BBC is reporting that the Sky Blues are close to a \u00a317m deal for Eintracht Frankfurt defender Aurele Amenda.<\/p>\n The Swiss centre back has just got back from the World Cup and is now able to engage fully with a potential deal. He will cost \u00a315.4m up front, with another \u00a31.7m in add-ons, and will sign a four year contract.<\/p>\n He has apparently been persuaded by a \u201cstrong pitch\u201d from manager Frank Lampard.<\/p>\n Coventry completed an even bigger deal for Burnley\u2019s Loum Tchaouna this week, and made Frank Onyeka\u2019s loan from Brentford permanent earlier this summer.<\/p>\n Once they get Amenda over the line, their priority will be securing goalkeeper Carl Rushworth, who was excellent on loan from Brighton last season. The Seagulls are asking for big money, however, and Coventry may have to turn to Chelsea backup Filip Jorgensen as an alternative, according to this report.<\/p>\n One defender who came to the fore at the World Cup is already a major target for Bournemouth and Southampton \u2013 although Leeds look to have the lead in the chase for his signature.<\/p>\n Newcastle have locked in on a Fiorentina full back who is available at a bargain price this summer.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL CAUGHTOFFSIDE APP FOR ALL THE LATEST UPDATES \u2013 STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON THE APP STORE<\/strong><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aurele Amenda playing for Swizterland. (Photo by Mike Nowak\/Getty Images) Swiss centre back Aurele Amenda…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Coventry add more quality in key position \u2013 but still lack goalkeeper deal<\/h2>\n
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