What Adi Viveash said when he finally opened up on Mark Robins split and Coventry City press conference.

Adi Viveash left Coventry City in the summer of 2024, following a breakup with Mark Robins.

Adi Viveash expressed his’relief’ after Doug King detailed the breakdown of his Coventry City coaching marriage with Mark Robins. Viveash departed Coventry under a cloud last summer, having won two promotions and four Wembley appearances in seven years as Robins’ assistant manager. The duo guided the Sky Blues from League Two to the Championship and came within a penalty shootout of bringing the club to the Premier League in 2023. Viveash’s departure remained unanswered until Coventry owner King fired Robins in November and held a press conference. King claimed that Robins was fired because ‘he has demolished the coaching staff at this football club’.

King went on to say, “I did not dismantle it; he did. That’s what people don’t realise: they believe I’m doing a lot with my spider’s web and all of this, which is completely false.

“What occurred was that Mark and Adi Viveash were the heart and soul of our football team; they propelled us up the levels and were extremely successful in doing so. Then, in March/April of last year, it appeared like something happened. You may be familiar with Andy Turner’s story in the Telegraph about a particular marriage, which was tough to maintain. The boys have been together for a long time, and I don’t know if that triggered something. “Adi did another huge interview that he wasn’t supposed to do, and then everyone got a little hyped, and the drop-off after the Wolves game was rather surprising. I know everyone said we were knackered after the heroic FA Cup semi-final but the reality was, it looked like something was wrong.

“I met with both of them individually at the conclusion of the season and told them, ‘Look, I came in here and handed you four-year contracts; I want you together because you have shown me that as a team, you can make things happen here. I’ll get you the deck, and I’m hoping you’ll outperform yourself as you have with this deck. “I urged them to take a break, go away, have a vacation, and return reinvigorated because we have our recruitment in order and our preseason planned. We have a performance director, the facilities (at Ryton) with a new gym coming in, and we want to strike the ground running running

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