{"id":564675,"date":"2020-09-04T04:49:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T08:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=564675"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:30:29","slug":"coventry-city-ben-sheaf-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/04\/coventry-city-ben-sheaf-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry City Sign Ben Sheaf on Loan From Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coventry City have completed the loan signing of midfielder Ben Sheaf from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a>. The 22-year-old joins the club until the end of the 2020\/21 season and Coventry will then have the option to sign Sheaf on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<h2>Ben Sheaf Joins Coventry City on Loan From Arsenal<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome Ben \ud83d\udc4b<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to announce the signing of Ben Sheaf on a season-long-loan from Arsenal! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PUSB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PUSB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u27a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s9n0JOUOaQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/s9n0JOUOaQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tdtVs2DMJk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/tdtVs2DMJk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coventry City (@Coventry_City) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Coventry_City\/status\/1301792125072408577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>EFL Experience<\/h3>\n<p>While he is yet to play in the Championship, midfielder Sheaf has had experience of playing in the EFL before. He played ten times for Stevenage in their 2017\/18 League Two campaign and spent time at Doncaster Rovers in League One last season, playing 24 times in total.<\/p>\n<p>His performances last season helped Doncaster to earn a ninth-place finish in the third tier &#8211; just six points shy of a play-off place, which they could have earnt had the season reached its full conclusion.<\/p>\n<h3>Time at Arsenal<\/h3>\n<p>Sheaf made his debut for Arsenal back in 2017, replacing Francis Coquelin late on in a Europa League victory against Red Star Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p>He made one other appearance that season in the Carabao Cup and featured once for the U21 side in last season&#8217;s EFL Trophy.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Upon Sheaf&#8217;s arrival at the club, Coventry manager Mark Robins told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/september\/transfer-ben-sheaf-joins-coventry-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019re very pleased to announce Ben\u2019s arrival at the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a player with great pedigree and ability, who will really add to our squad for the Championship season ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a good physical presence and a footballing brain as well, and will be a real asset for us during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank Arsenal for agreeing to loan Ben to us, and look forward to working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"kzkfAPiaQ01bXV9hti8uBQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1261563999\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'kzkfAPiaQ01bXV9hti8uBQ',sig:'hgVUAG1yYWdjVaCVkBEqk-XUu8Sah6BOYPZa0AumOjY=',w:'594px',h:'448px',items:'1261563999',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coventry City have completed the loan signing of midfielder Ben Sheaf from Arsenal. The 22-year-old joins the club until the end of the 2020\/21 season and Coventry will then have the option to sign Sheaf on a permanent basis. Ben Sheaf Joins Coventry City on Loan From Arsenal &nbsp; Welcome Ben \ud83d\udc4b We are delighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":564676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,33,32,3],"tags":[32739,32738,6563,197,168,40,136],"class_list":["post-564675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-championship","category-league-football","category-premier-league","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-fixtures","tag-ben-sheaf","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664249,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564675\/revisions\/664249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}