Coventry City will be without promotion-winning star Haji Wright for their Premier League return.Manager Frank Lampard confirmed the USA striker could be sidelined for as long as three months with a ‘very serious quad injury’.Wright was included in the USA’s World Cup squad after impressing in Coventry’s promotion-winning campaignGettyCoventry lose a major source of goalsWright enjoyed the best scoring season of his Coventry career last term, helping fire the Sky Blues to the Championship title with 17 goals.The 28-year-old has found the net 49 times in all competitions since arriving from Turkish club Antalyaspor three years ago, becoming the Sky Blues’ record signing at the time.He was one of four Coventry players named in the 2025/26 Championship Team of the Season.Wright will have been looking forward to his first taste of the Premier League but missed his side’s final two pre-season friendlies against Espanyol and Monaco.And he won’t be involved when the Sky Blues kick off the new campaign away to champions Arsenal on Friday night, live on talkSPORT.Wright’s injury ‘disappointing for everyone’Speaking in the build-up that clash, Coventry’s first Premier League match for 25 years, Lampard confirmed: “Haji Wright won’t be available for the Arsenal game.“He won’t be available for a little while; he’s got a very serious quad injury which is disappointing for Haji and for us.“It’s certainly going to be a number of weeks – could even be up to 12 weeks.”While Wright’s absence comes as a big blow, Lampard isn’t short of attacking options after a busy summer of transfer activity.Coventry have signed two strikers this week alone, completing deals to bring in Taiwo Awoniyi from Nottingham Forest and Sidiki Cherif from Fenerbahce.Awoniyi adds valuable Premier League experience from his time at ForestGettyThe Sky Blues have broken their transfer record a whopping four times this window, with Ghana midfielder Caleb Yirenkyi their most expensive new acquisition from Danish side Nordsjaelland at £23.1m.Coventry to do even more business?And Lampard hasn’t ruled out further signings before deadline day on August 31.“We will see,” he said. “We knew we had work to do and we knew what the gap [between the Championship and the Premier League] is because history tells you that. “We’ve tried to strike the balance of working smartly in the window to bring in players to help the squad we already had. We will see for the remainder of the window about ins and outs.”Looking ahead to the game, Lampard said: “I want to show in our performance and how we approach the game that we’re not coming into it with fear. “We respect Arsenal greatly, but it doesn’t mean you play with too much respect that you are passive. We can hopefully show we are a good team that want to do something this year.”Coventry’s primary goal for 2026/27 will be preserving their Premier League status, and they’ve been tipped to stay up by talkSPORT Breakfast presenter Jeff Stelling and regular talkSPORT guest Darragh MacAnthony, chairman of Peterborough United.The Sky Blues previously spent 34 years in the top flight from their promotion to the old First Division in 1967 to their relegation from the Premier League in 2001.