ROBINS: MAC BID WOULD BE A SURPRISE
CITY BOSS SAYS ANY MOVE FOR TEEN STAR WOULD BE ‘OUT OF THE BLUE’
MARK Robins says any bid for Coventry City’s highly-rated full-back Sam McCallum would come ‘out of the blue.’
The 19-year-old McCallum has emerged as the Sky Blues’ most saleable asset this season, with Liverpool, Leeds United, Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion reportedly among the young defender’s admirers.
Asked if he’s expecting any January transfer window bids for the player – whom City plucked from nonLeague obscurity via the Jamie Vardy Academy trials – Robins said: “No, I’m not.
“I’m not expecting anything. “There’s nothing there at the minute that I am hearing of and you would expect to have heard something by now if something is going to happen.
“So it would be something out of the blue and a surprise, but we will wait and see.
“You never say no because, clearly, football is a funny old game, as someone once said.”
Like most clubs at all levels, City have a price for every player and Robins has already insisted it would take a “monumental” bid to tempt the club to let McCallum go.
“If someone comes in for one of our players, will they meet the valuation we have placed on them?” he said.
“If they do then we have a decision to make and the player has a decision to make, but until then there’s no sign of anything happening.
“If anything happened now it would be out of the blue because I have not heard anything.”
He added: “There will be interest in some of them but certainly you would start to expect to hear things where people are asking questions and relevant questions, but that hasn’t necessarily been the case.
“There’s been nothing on anybody but people will be interested in a number of the players.
“But at the same time, there is a valuation on them, and that would have to be met before anything happened, but agents make livings on players moving, and that’s what happens.
“You know how it works.”
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