Despite having high aspirations of closing the gap to the first team, Coventry City has parted ways with another promising development player. According to CoventryLive, offensive midfielder/winger Evan Eghosa’s contract with the Sky Blues has been canceled with his mutual consent.
The Championship club offered the 18-year-old his first professional contract last summer. The two-year agreement is set to expire in July 2025. However, such arrangement has been terminated after a year.
Dermi Lusala and Bradley Stretton, two other players for the Under-21 team who City released in May, were listed when the team revealed its retained list, which included players who were being let go. Since then, Marco Rus, a 21-year-old prospect for the Scottish Championship who was predicted for a bright future, has gone to join Ayr United. The two parties agreed to an undisclosed price earlier this month.
When Eghosa was permitted to go on trial to Norwich City and played in part of the Canaries’ youth team’s 4-1 victory over Aston Villa, coming on as a second-half substitute, it was clear that his time at City was almost up.
He joined the club three seasons ago and quickly climbed the ranks at The Alan Higgs Centre and became a regular for John Dempster’s Under-21s side, helping the young Sky Blues to two Cup finals and spent last summer training with the first-team, under the watchful eye of Mark Robins and his coaches.
After taking part in the pre-season and featuring in three senior friendly matches against Forest Green, Shrewsbury Town and MK Dons he was rewarded a month later with a two year deal, after which he said: “I am very happy, thank you! It has been great and I am very grateful. My faith has been a big part of this too, so I have to thank God, first and foremost. I am grateful to be here, and to have signed my first professional deal.”
He added: “Training with the first team has been a great experience. I have been able to see where the levels are. That has inspired me to push. “Working with the first team coaches, Dennis [Lawrence], Adi [Viveash], and the Gaffer, has been really good. They’ve been on to me and talking to me: which has been so good for my development as well.”
Asked at the time what his targets and aims were for the 2023/24 campaign, he said: “My aim now is to get more first-team exposure. I played lots of Under-21s last season but now I want to be around the first team and push myself into the manager’s thoughts. I want to push on now and develop, they’re my aims.”
Something has clearly changed over the last 12 months and the two parties have decided to go their separate ways.
