Forget Jack Rudoni, one Coventry City ace is back to his best and can fire Frank Lampard to the top

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It may not have been the busiest summer for Coventry City, but Frank Lampard now has all the ingredients he needs to get the Sky Blues promoted this season.

With only four Coventry City signings this summer, some fans were annoyed that the club didn’t show more ambition to build on last season’s impressive finish.

Some suspected Doug King’s £40m investment in the CBS Arena played a part. However, we know that’s not the case. Instead, Coventry City had one sole aim this summer: to keep hold of their star players.

The fact that Jack Rudoni is signing a new contract will be a huge boost to Frank Lampard and his hopes of steering the Sky Blues to promotion. But, it’s Haji Wright that will be the key man in realising that ambition.

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Frank Lampard gives Haji Wright rave review

Speaking to Coventry Live, Frank Lampard played up the Sky Blues striker and the impact he can have.

He said: “We’ve got our Haji and what we’re seeing now, I think, is the work that we’ve been able to do with him on the training pitch through pre-season.

“We can see that he’s feeling really released from the issues he had last year. But it’s more now a case of how we can work and be specific about the role that I, and we, want him to play, and trying to work with him on the training pitch.

“There’s a really good energy about Haji at the moment and he’s a very, very good player. I hope we’ll push that and that he remains as consistent in how he started the season because he’s shown already what I believed in him anyway. In the role he’s been playing he’s a very dangerous player, so I’m very happy with him.”

On that positional change — Lampard switched Wright from a wider role on the left to being a central striker — the Coventry City manager outlined the ways the USA forward has stepped up his game.

“Haji was already a good player. But to see the feeling he has at the moment, I think top players need to not just have that base talent. They also need that air of confidence and the feeling that they’re really taking a grip of their responsibility within the team.

“And he’s a big figurehead for us at the top end of the pitch. So from our point of view, working with him, talking with him, it’s good to see him playing well. But, obviously he needs to remain consistent with that.”

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Goalscorers are key to promotion hopes for Championship teams

Haji Wright has made a phenomenal start to the season. Heading into the weekend, he now has five league goals in five games (and another in the cup, too).

His last-gasp equaliser against Norwich City at the weekend helped Lampard maintain an unbeaten start to the season. It’s those kinds of moments that Wright will need to keep producing if Coventry are to go all the way this year.

You can have a solid defence and a creative midfield, but unless you have a player who will put the ball in the back of the net, promotion is very tough to achieve.

Wright is exactly that man for Coventry. Indeed, the main reason they failed in the play-offs last season is down to his drop in form. If Wright can sustain his current levels, we’d back the Sky Blues to land in the top two.