Luke Woolfenden’s move to Coventry City has been a long time in the making.

Frank Lampard was just seven games into his tenure as Sky Blues head coach when his first transfer window was upon him in the new year and he’d quickly identified an area of the team he wanted to strengthen. Having seen his inherited team ship nine goals in his opening five matches, including four at battling Portsmouth, City’s recruitment department was tasked with identifying central defenders.

Struggling for match minutes with then Premier League Ipswich at the time, Woolfenden explained when he was first aware of Coventry ’s interest, saying: “There was a situation in January where it was a more of a loan move here with just a view to get more game time because I was getting frustrated with not playing

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