Coventry City transfer news: Frank Lampard 'closing' on new goalkeeper after Carl Rushworth, Filip Jorgensen interest

Coventry City are reportedly adjacent to sealing the signing of Brighton & Hove Albion goalkeeper Carl Rushworth.

Since securing promotion to the Premier League, the Sky Blues person struggled to bring successful a fig 1 for 2026-27.

Although a report linked them with Chelsea's Filip Jorgensen connected Tuesday, their earthy preferred prime has been Rushworth, who played each Championship fixture during a indebtedness stint arsenic Coventry cantered to the league title.

Despite Rushworth lone having 1 twelvemonth near connected his contract, Brighton person played hardball implicit a fee, alert of however powerfully Coventry privation to motion the 25-year-old.

However, arsenic per talkSPORT's Alex Crook, Coventry person present made the breakthrough with their Seagulls counterparts.

How overmuch are Coventry paying for Rushworth?

The study claims that Coventry volition beryllium paying a club-record £22.5m to motion the erstwhile England Under-21 international.

Brighton person besides been palmy with inserting a sell-on clause and buy-back enactment successful the agreement.

Coventry volition present expect to finalise the signing successful owed people to extremity what has go a lengthy saga.

Frank Lampard has already added Eintracht Frankfurt defender Aurele Amenda, past season's Brentford loanee Frank Onyeka and Burnley's Loum Tchaouna to his squad.

Their spending volition scope £65m erstwhile Rushworth's transportation to the CBS Arena has been completed, with nary wealth generated done sales.

The Premier League a measurement up for Rushworth

While galore volition consciousness that Rushworth deserves his accidental successful the Premier League, it volition correspond a important measurement up.

He has made a full of 179 appearances crossed spells with Walsall, Lincoln City, Swansea City, Hull City and Coventry, without making a azygous elder outing for Brighton.

Impressively, though, Rushworth has kept 56 cleanable sheets crossed those matches, 17 of which came successful past season's Championship.

If Rushworth could scope fractional of that fig successful the Premier League successful 2026-27, Lampard would apt beryllium satisfied.