Coventry City transfer news from CoventryLive as Mark Robins addresses the latest situation surrounding star midfielder Gustavo Hamer’s future
Mark Robins admits Gustavo Hamer’s Coventry City future remains very much “up in the air” and “needs resolving quickly” with the Sky Blues just a week away from the start of the new Championship season.
The manager revealed that the club have had bids for the player, which have not been acceptable, and that the decision to stay remains largely in the player’s hands, although Robins has not ruled out the club taking that decision away from him by making him see out the last 12 months of his contract.
Hamer once again showed how much of an influential figure he is by setting up City’s opening goal when he went on in the club’s final pre-season friendly at Exeter City, with goals from Matty Godden and Ben Sheaf securing a 2-1 victory at St James Park where the travelling fans sang “Hamer, sign your contract,” as he warmed up in front of them.
“I think everyone wants him to stay and it’s down to Gus, but at the end of the day he’s a human being and has got his own ideas,” said Robins.
“He’s been brilliant for us. I think, really, we have got to try and keep hold of him if we can but as I have said before, it’s really in his hands.
“We want to keep him, the supporters have made their voices clear today. I don’t know how Gus feels about that but he’s someone who just takes things in his stride and has a really good rapport with them and all the staff and players.”
He added: “Whatever happens, if he ends up moving on, it will hurt him for a while, there’s no doubt about that because he will miss it; everything that we have done together. But you have to look and say he has been phenomenal for us for three years and got better and better each season.
“And last season he single-handedly, really, got us into play-off contention and promotion contention, so his performances are incredible. Everyone saw that today when he came on. His quality and energy is something that we crave; we need and should that go then we need to replace that, if that’s what we have to do.
