Former Huddersfield Town midfielder Jack Rudoni has been named Coventry City’s player of the season in his first year with the club.
The 24-year-old has excelled for the Sky Blues after joining the Championship outfit for an undisclosed fee last summer.
Rudoni made 50 appearances in all competitions for Frank Lampard’s side last term, with the midfielder netting 10 goals and providing 13 assists for the Sky Blues. His performances helped Coventry to reach the play-offs, where the West Midlands-based outfit were beaten in the semi-finals by Sunderland.
“Jack Rudoni has been awarded the coveted player of the year prize following the accumulation of the official supporter clubs awards that were voted for at the end of the last campaign, a season in which he played 50 games, scored 10 goals and provided 13 assists,” a club statement read.
“Jack now rightly takes his place in the history books of the club alongside other midfielders who have won the award such as Ernie Machin, the first winner in 1968, Willie Carr and Gary McAllister.”
Rudoni earned praise from Lampard at the back end of last term. Speaking to our sister site CoventryLive last month, Lampard said: “He’s such a talented boy and he’s a pleasure to work with.
“The way he trains, he wants to get better, he engages all the time because he wants to score goals. Me and him stay on our own and we practice, but I work with him and he’s brilliant – great energy, great quality, the way he moves with the ball and he can score different types of goals.”
Part of the Coventry's business model is to buy promising young players with potential resale value, develop them and then sell them on for significant profit, with Rudoni currently their most saleable asset. Newcastle United have been strongly linked with a move for Rudoni in recent weeks.