The 21-year-old captained the Sky Blues U21 team throughout the 2023–24 season before departing to finish the previous campaign with FC Universitatea Cluj in Romania.
Rus was a highly dependable member of Coventry’s U21 team in the Professional Development League the previous season, although he also spent a short time on loan at Chorley, a National League North team.
Rus played in six league games while in the sixth division, scoring twice and starting for the Sky Blues in the Championship.
He returned to the Championship team at the end of the season after spending eight games in Romania, where he made one assist.
Rus re-signed a two-year contract with the Championship team in June 2023, but he missed most of the preseason preparations due to an injury sustained during the offseason.
But the previous season, Rus stayed off the first team roster or on the bench while the Sky Blues gave debuts to players like Kai Andrews and Aidan Dausch.
Rus, who is 21 years old, probably feels that he would want to play regularly for the first team now rather than play another season as a youth player or on loan, and Mark Robins and his group probably agreed with this decision.
As said before, Rus is not playing regular first-team football at the age that most players his age are. It’s possible that the midfielder’s dearth of first-team appearances contributed to the decision to let him go, since he left for an unspecified sum.
Rus has played first-team football while on loan in Romania and the National League North at Chorley and Hereford. This experience may help him succeed in his new team’s debut campaign in 2019.
Ayr United will want to do better in the next Scottish Championship season after finishing seventh, just two points above the relegation play-off spot, in the previous campaign.