Coventry City placed under transfer embargo
It means they can't register any new players.
Coventry City have been placed under a transfer embargo by the English Football League after failing to file their annual accounts.
The Sky Bet Championship club insist the embargo is 'purely an administrative embargo imposed by the EFL' and will have no effect on 'planned activity' in the summer transfer window.
A club statement read:
'Coventry City can confirm that it has been placed under a transfer embargo by the EFL.
'The Government, due to the coronavirus crisis, allowed companies to extend the deadline to file company accounts by three months and Coventry City chose to take up this option.
'Unfortunately the EFL has decided not to replicate this extension within their own rules, which surprises us as they have amended a number of other rules due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Coventry chief executive Dave Boddy said:
'It's disappointing that the EFL have chosen to do this.
'The Government has allowed companies to extend the deadline to file accounts and we chose to do this, extending from the end of February to the end of May.
'It's ridiculous that the EFL's regulations on this do not replicate this approach that the Government has taken, especially when they have amended other rules of their during the pandemic.
'The EFL's imposition of this does not have any effect on us, but it is disappointing nonetheless that they have taken this approach to take action against clubs who are simply doing what the Government is allowing us to do.'
The EFL are yet to comment on the embargo.