Ellis Simms has joined Coventry City from Everton in an £8million move.
The former Hearts striker has signed a four-year deal with the Sky Blues ahead of the new Championship season.
The frontman spent six months on loan at Tynecastle during the 2021/22 campaign.
He made an impressive impact under Robbie Neilson at the time and helped fire the Jambos to the Scottish Cup final with a derby day victory over Hibs at Hampden.
Already feeling at 🏡 pic.twitter.com/88dXPxeHcQ
— Coventry City (@Coventry_City) July 7, 2023
Hearts made no secret over their desire to attract Simms back to the club, however, he then went on loan to Sunderland for the first part of last season.
After making an impact there under Tony Mowbray, Everton gave the striker a shot in the first team at Goodison as they battled to survive in the Premier League.
He helped Sean Dyche's men do exactly that, as he scoring a vital late equaliser at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea in the final few games of the season.
But the Toffees have now allowed him to move on to pastures new, with a permanent move to Coventry now sealed.
READ MORE: Moyes hails Craig Brown as teacher who paved way for Scottish coaches
Mark Robins said: “We are delighted to welcome Ellis to Coventry City.
“He is a strong, powerful striker who also has pace and finishing ability, and he is a key signing for us.
“Ellis is a young player who is keen to continue his development and to impress at Coventry City, and we look forward to working with him.”
He'll replace Victory Gyokeres who leaves Coventry in a £24m move to join Sporting Lisbon after an impressive season in the Championship.
At The Herald and Times we know the importance of reaching you where it's convenient, which is why we've engaged top sportswriter James Morgan to bring you an irreverent daily update on what's happening in the world of sport. Be it football, golf, rugby, cricket or something more exotic, James will tread where the best stories take him. To get this bespoke piece sent directly to your email inbox for free every day at 5pm, simply take 5 seconds to type in your email here. It's that simple!
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here