Can Yakubu Be A Tiny Ray Of Light For Coventry?

Its been a long time since Coventry City fans have had much to cheer about. After thirty four consecutive seasons in the top flight including being an inaugural member of the Premier League they were relegated in two thousand and one and its got worse and worse ever since.

Currently the Sky Blues sit bottom of League One, ten points off safety with sixteen games to go and things are not looking good. They have taken just two points from the last ten games and fan based anger towards the Sisu ownership keeps boiling over into pitch invasions and protests before games.

Yesterday Russell Slade confirmed the singing of former Premier League and Nigerian international Yakubu on a free transfer in a bid to save the club from relegation to League Two. Slade was quoted saying "We're pleased to have secured the signing of Yakubu, who brings vast experience and a terrific goal record,"

With Coventry being his fifteenth club, Yakubu will be hoping to draw on all his experience of playing around the world to make himself a fan favorite during his short term deal at the Ricoh.

At thirty four its going to be interesting to see how much he has left in the tank for what is going to be an intense relegation battle. His last permanent club was Kayserispor in Turkey where he failed to score a single league goal and was last seen training with Boreham Wood who play in the National league.

Yakubu has got a pretty good goal scoring record in England and hopefully he can find his form to guide Coventry to safety as a club with such history as the sky blues should not be floundering at the bottom of League One.