SKY Sports pundit Don Goodman felt Coventry City leaked ‘too many soft goals’ last season and expects the Sky Blues to bring in defensive reinforcements.
Coventry conceded 58 goals last season – more than any other side in the top-half of the Championship table except for Sheffield Wednesday (65) who finished 12th.
City have already added full-backs Kaine Kesler-Hayden and Miguel Angel Brau to their squad ahead of the upcoming season.
And Goodman expects Coventry to strenghten their defence further before the end of the transfer window.
Don Goodman, speaking exclusively with football betting site talkSPORTBET, said: “I like the players at the club and I like Frank. I think they’ve got a decent chance next season.
“There’ll be more business that they’re going to be doing.
“I think the biggest area for me that they need to improve is that they leaked too many soft goals, way more goals than the data shows that they should have conceded so I do think that should be an area of urgency really.
“I think it’s clear since Doug King took over the club that his ambition is to get Coventry City back in the Premier League ASAP and with that comes pressure and expectation.
“I’d imagine that, despite the Championship being a stronger version next season, I anticipate that the expectation for Coventry will be a minimum top-six finish.
“Obviously they’ll feel aggrieved at the way Sunderland beat them in the playoff semi-final – that will sting. Sometimes, having lost a couple of Championship playoff semi-finals myself, it can be hard to get over those kinds of things.
“That’s the big job for Frank this summer, clearing the players minds and getting them at it right from the off rather than having a bit of a delayed hangover and then going and putting themselves a little bit behind.”
