Morrison names two stars he's tipping to 'have good' Premier League seasons

Clinton Morrison has tipped Coventry City ’s flying wingers Ephron Mason-Clark and Tatsuhiro Sakamoto to ‘flourish’ in the Premier League.

Last month the Sky Blues secured a place in the top tier for the first time in 25 years and followed that up by taking the Championship title a few days later.

That immediately kick-started a debate about which players could make the step-up and how much work Doug King and Frank Lampard would have to do in the transfer market.

Morrison reckons City will try to add a striker to support Haji Wright, with Ellis Simms and Brandon Thomas-Asante also available – but insisted he wouldn’t want to see Wright shunted out on to the wing.

“On the left at the moment, they've got a player who I really like, who I think will do well in the Premier League, in young [Ephron] Mason-Clark, who they got from Peterborough,” the former Sky Blues forward told Goal.com.

“He's been outstanding in the Championship. And towards the end of the season, he took his game to a whole new level.

“There's loads of players who will go in the Premier League and do well, but him and [Tatsuhiro] Sakamoto on either side, I think are two outstanding players that will flourish in the Premier League because they're positive, they want to take on their full-backs, they do their hard work tracking back.

“They're two players, when I'm looking at them for Coventry in the Premier League, that I think will do well. There'll be a lot of full-backs worried about what those two can bring to the table. They're my tips to go and have good seasons next year.”

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And to celebrate, the Coventry Telegraph has produced this stunning 48-page special edition marking the achievements of Frank Lampard and his men.

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