Coventry City are looking to go one better in next season’s Championship under Frank Lampard and win promotion

Coventry City are trying to make the leap from the play-offs to promotion after missing out in the end-of-season lottery in two of the past three seasons.

To do that, the Sky Blues will require an extra sprinkling of quality in this summer’s transfer window and Bournemouth might be about to offer Championship clubs the chance to sign a second tier cheat code.

The reported availability of David Brooks will send Championship clubs into a transfer frenzy.

Wales international Brooks, now 27, has rebooted his career in the past two years after overcoming Hodgkin’s lymphoma and helped Bournemouth achieve their best-ever Premier League points tally last season.

But he only started nine Premier League games for the Cherries – scoring twice – and reports suggest another Championship move could be in the offing.

Only 12 months ago Brooks helped Southampton return to the top flight via the Championship play-offs, with two goals and six assists coming in his 20 outings for the Saints.

Brooks only has 12 months remaining on his contract at Bournemouth who will want to recoup as much of the £11.5million they paid to sign him from Sheffield United seven years ago as possible.

West Bromwich Albion are the first team to be credited with an interest in Brooks but that is likely to multiply in the coming weeks.

Everything suggests Brooks would be a good fit for the Sky Blues under Frank Lampard.

Given that Brooks is a left-footed right-winger who prefers to drift inside, he suits the structure of Lampard’s preferred 4-2-3-1 set-up.

Japanese ace Tatsuhiro Sakamoto played in that position last season without much competition, whereas on the other side Lampard had Haji Wright, Ephron Mason-Clark and the now departed Jamie Paterson jostling for position.

Sakamoto, who scored four goals and registered six assists in his 44 Championship outings last term, would benefit from high-level competition for his place.

Eddie Howe summed Brooks up during his time coaching the winger at Bournemouth. He said: “He is a player that can do a little bit of everything, he is very good offensively, is creative, turns well with the ball and is very intelligent.”

Coventry need players of Brooks’ ilk to take them to the next level in the Championship.

Brooks can be a game-changer on his day and they are few and far between in a league where almost everyone will fancy their chances of reaching the Premier League when the season kicks off in August.