COVENTRY City are in talks to sign former Forest Green defender Chris Stokes when he  returns from his honeymoon.

The 24-year old, who got married last week, made 16 appearances on loan with City last season and scored in the 2-1 win over MK Dons at the Ricoh Arena.

Coventry City boss Tony Mowbray told the Coventry Telegraph: “I openly said to Chris after the first few weeks when I arrived at the football club that he was having a difficult time,” said Mowbray.

“He’d come from non-League and I had a few goes at him after games because he made one or two mistakes that were quite costly to the team.

 


 

“But the reason we have offered him a new deal is because I think he’s an improver, really. I think he was probably one of our better players in the last three or four games and showed me he’d taken great strides; that he’d listened well and worked very hard on the training ground.

“His physical stats were immense with the work-rate and effort he puts into everything he does and because he was improving and getting better I felt that if that is hopefully a continued line, where does that stop?

“That’s why I thought it was worth trying to keep him at the club to see where that would stop with the coaching and advice given to him. He's on his honeymoon at the moment so we're in no rush to get a deal done.”