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Andy Brassell has urged the Championship champions to pursue Ajax's Mika Godts this summer

While Coventry City will be celebrating their Championship title win long into the offseason, it won't be long until the hierarchy at the CBS Arena are putting plans in place for the summer transfer window.

It's an unfortunate reality that comes with promotion to the top flight that, in most cases, the heroes who helped get a side up are often replaced before they are even tested at the higher level, as established Premier League and overseas talents are brought in for eight-figure fees.

And despite the Sky Blues boasting a plethora of talented top-end Championship stars who have dominated the league in large parts, Frank Lampard will be destined to fail if they run things back with the majority of the same personnel in the Premier League.

With more and more players who play for top European sides seeing the opportunity to come to the Premier League as one they cannot turn down, newly-promoted sides have been able to capitalise and bring in top talent.

Just this past year, the likes of Nordi Mukiele, Granit Xhaka and Gabriel Gudmundsson have left high-performing teams for a move to the Premier League to play for newly promoted sides, just to name three.

Sunderland and Leeds United have both performed well upon returning to the top-flight, however, showing exactly what - rightly or wrongly - needs to be done after promotion is sealed.

Coventry City told to go and buy Mika Godts

If the likes of Sunderland, Burnley and Leeds United were able to attract stars of European outfits, albeit some more successfully than others, this past summer, then nothing may be stopping Coventry from doing the same.

European football expert Andy Brassell hopes that the Sky Blues will do some of their shopping abroad, and would love to see them head to the Netherlands to bring 20-year-old Belgian winger Mika Godts.

Despite the Dutch giants having a poor season in the Eredivisie, Godts has had a real breakout year, netting 16 and assisting 11 in just 29 games, seeing him earn his first National team caps along the way. Per Fotmob, no winger in the Dutch top flight has had more successful dribbles than his 79, too.

On the 20-year-old, Brassell said, "A player who is kind of halfway between a traditional winger because he can dribble, and a wide forward because he's a goalscorer as well.

"He's aware enough to set up others. He's made the most of the fact that Malick Fofana has missed a lot of the season through injury to break into the Belgian national team.

Eden Hazard made the move to the Premier League aged 21 back in 2012, and Godts could easily follow in his footsteps this summer, perhaps to the newly-promoted Coventry side.

Mika Godts would be a real statement of intent signing for Coventry City in the Premier League

Godts formed a three-person wishlist, which also included centre-back Nico Elvedi and frontman Lassine Sinayoko, and while all three would be big-name signings upon their Premier League return, the young winger would be the pick of the bunch.

Turning 21 in June, the Belgian has exploded onto the scene this season in the Netherlands, being one of the few bright sparks in this poor campaign at the Johan Cruyff Arena.

He may not have had much of an impact in the UEFA Champions League, but he's been one of the Eredivisie's best young players and that has seen the winger emerge as one of the hottest properties on the continent.

His stunning, slaloming solo effort in Ajax's 2-0 victory at NAC Breda over the weekend prompted further links to a host of leading European clubs, including the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Spanish giants Barcelona as per a recent report from TEAMtalk.

The 20-year-old's creativity would be key in this Coventry side, and while the likes of Ephron Mason-Clark and Brandon Thomas-Asante have been brilliant out wide for Frank Lampard this year, sentiment unfortunately cannot get in the way of what would be a brilliant coup this summer.

It would, of course, require a herculean effort in terms of sheer financial muscle as well as convincing factor in order to lure a player of Godts' quality and potential to the West Midlands and help the Sky Blues' survival efforts, with a move to a top club perhaps appearing more likely at this moment in time, but this remains the sort of signing Lampard might look to make to put the rest of the division on red alert.