All clubs are selling clubs, we are no different. Without selling the ones we’ve sold we would be a bouncing between league one and champ at best. We just notice it as it’s our club. We could sell and become a Reading.
The dangers of making wrong decisions are the difference between success and failure and when you sit on the fence like us you never quite know whether it's good or bad. Bristol City have clearly taken the lower road by selling all their good players and never look like re-investing those fees into making the squad better and there are many that are frustrated by that credo and others that say it's our best chance of staying where we are. Personally I would like to see a much more aggressive path but the powers that be always say no, and there it will stay until such time as the hierarchy say differently. Not enjoyable but you pay your money and you take your choice.
Exclusive: Bristol City closing in on non-league talent on radar of Norwich and Sunderland Josh Stokes is a product of the Ipswich Town academy but having been released at 16 is making a name for himself in the National League https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-norwich-sunderland-9043585
Bristol City keen on striking Wolves loan agreement for midfielder The Robins have added Taylor Gardner-Hickman permanently this week, and now their sights have been set on Joe Hodge Bristol City keen on loan deal for Wolves midfielder Joe Hodge (footballleagueworld.co.uk)
It does seem odd to be looking at another player in that area and not a striker. They also didn’t mention Knight would be back more midfield minded if we signed a striker. Knight is a good player, but his finishing is poor.
I was kind of hoping we might have someone else in by this weekend. Although McCrorie is as good as a new signing, and with Twine as well at least the squad depth is improving.
Although it is good to see us quite active in this window but are we adding quality or just numbers from anywhere. The lower leagues and even non-league is not usually the way to improve the strength of our squad but we have to hope that the cart isn't leading the horse in this case and the jury will be out for me until such time as we have seen what they bring to Bristol City. With Liam's experience only being at a lower level perhaps he has got us looking at the right talent that has flown under the radar of more fashionable outfits and that don't warrant huge fees and salaries. When I read about a supposed top flight player commanding a 50 million pounds when he has barely kicked a ball for his old employer it begins to make me ask why anyone wants to get involved in that idiocy? Perhaps we are doing the right thing but I don't know anymore.
BT said they wouldn’t budge from their £5m valuation at the senior reds and we aren’t prepared to pay that much, so it wasn’t just my my interpretation
Exclusive: Bristol City beat Coventry City and Premier League club to signing of midfield talent Josh Stokes will be loaned back to National League Aldershot Town for the rest of the 2023/24 campaign please log in to view this image Bristol City have beaten off competition from Premier League Brentford and Championship rivals Coventry City to land promising Aldershot Town attacking midfielder Josh Stokes, Bristol City understands, with the Robins paying a fee in the region of £250,000 plus further add-ons. Stokes has undergone a medical at the High Performance Centre, agreed personal terms, and is expected to be confirmed as a City player this week, with the 19-year-old then being loaned back to the Shots for the remainder of the National League season. That has helped negotiations given neither Coventry or Brentford were prepared to agree to such a requirement. Stokes, who was on target in Saturday’s 4-2 defeat at Kidderminster, has scored 16 goals in 29 games for Aldershot after signing for just £5,000 from AFC Sudbury of the Isthmian League last summer. Among the add-ons included will be further appearance-based clauses, a 10 per cent sell-on and a provision to play a pre-season friendly at the EBB Stadium this summer, which should generate further revenue for the non-league club. Stokes has been signed with a view to the long-term, similar to his fellow January arrival Adam Murphy, and given the amount of competition to sign the former Ipswich Town academy player, it represents something of a coup for the Robins. He has reportedly been watched by Norwich City, the Tractor Boys, Sunderland, Charlton Athletic and Derby County, but City’s willingness to conclude a deal in January, ahead of schedule, and the pathway they continue to offer to young talent has helped secure his signature. Stokes has flourished under the management of former Bristol Rovers Director of Football Tommy Widdrington who’s moved him from operating as a wide forward into a more central playmaking role. Widdrington detailed in November how his star talent is bound for bigger things, and he’s been so blown away by his talent he demanded former teammate Matt Le Tissier watch him. Speaking to National League expert Tom Williams, Widdrington said: “His physicality and his mentality are far stronger than anybody would imagine for his age. Nothing fazes the lad, I actually think he goes to bed cuddling a football. I don’t think he’s got a vice in his life. And that’s a dream for anybody who’s thinking about knocking on my door because you’ll be getting an absolute gem in terms of the lad. “I think he’s got the scope to go at least a couple of divisions higher, at least. The development in him still, with the right people, the right coaches. His work ethic is not that of a genuine No10. I look at him as a forward. Where, across the line, anywhere; up there, behind there, to the side of it, wouldn’t matter, he’s that type of player. “In training he makes me raise my eyebrows every day. This is real high praise but I was down in Southampton and I was sat with the player who played for Southamton, who was the best player I’ve ever been on a football pitch with and I said to him, ‘come and have a look at him’. "Because there are things that he does, probably not the technical side of it, but the perception and the vision and the awareness of what’s around him on a pitch, he’s right up there at a very, very high level.”
Good one this one and Murphy is as well. But this one can be really good. Attack minded and scores. We done well with Brentford eyeing him up as well.
