Coventry City transfer news: Sky Blues, Wrexham 'tracking' 16-goal Norwegian forward

Coventry City and Wrexham reportedly some clasp an involvement successful signing Djurgardens IF guardant Kristian Lien.

The Sky Blues and the Red Dragons are preparing to instrumentality to enactment successful the Premier League and Championship respectively.

While Coventry beryllium successful 18th presumption successful the Premier League table, Wrexham are down successful 14th spot successful the Championship standings.

Goals person been an contented for some teams, with Coventry scoring conscionable erstwhile successful 5 top-flight fixtures and Wrexham lone having 9 strikes from 8 second-tier games to their name.

As per TEAMtalk, they could effort to resoluteness that occupation by moving for Lien during the wintertime transportation window.

Who is Kristian Lien?

Lien has been astatine Djurgardens for little than a twelvemonth having moved from Groningen successful January.

The 25-year-old has already contributed 18 goals and 5 assists from 26 appearances for the Swedish club.

Having failed to marque an interaction successful the Netherlands with conscionable 1 extremity from 16 outings for Groningen, Lien appears to beryllium successful the perfect spot to elevate his career.

Nevertheless, it is claimed that Coventry and Wrexham some presumption the 6ft 2ins frontman arsenic a imaginable signing astatine the opening of 2027.

Djurgardens lone paid successful the portion of £600,000 erstwhile signing Lien, but his declaration - which lasts until the extremity of 2029 - volition people dictate that they request a substantially bigger interest if funny clubs marque an attack successful January.

Would Djurgardens see Lien sale?

With 8 games remaining, Djurgardens beryllium successful 3rd presumption successful the Allsvenskan table, 2 points down 2nd but 10 points adrift of leaders IK Sirius.

European shot volition beryllium achieved should Djurgardens - who reached the semi-finals of the 2024-25 Conference League earlier losing to Chelsea - decorativeness successful the apical three.

That whitethorn promote the nine and subordinate to cull immoderate opportunities, successful the abbreviated word astatine least, to permission Scandanavia.

A transportation to England is not needfully a foregone decision owed to Lien having lone marque a affirmative interaction erstwhile playing successful Sweden oregon his autochthonal Norway.