According to SKY and the official City site; Bristol City have signed out-of-favour Leicester midfielder Neil Danns on a one-month loan. The 29-year-old former Crystal Palace midfielder has played just 24 minutes of Championship football and made two Capital One Cup appearances this season under Nigel Pearson and has spoken of his need for first-team football. Manager Derek McInnes said: "I'm very pleased to be able to bring Neil to the club. He's hungry and determined to do well. He's a tenacious midfielder who brings experience and quality to our squad. Neil is desperate to play games for us, he brings another level of quality to our squad he can't wait to get going." Danns joined the Foxes from Palace last summer having played over 100 times for the club since a £600,000 move from Birmingham in January 2008. The deal is subject to Football League approval and will run until December 12, allowing him to play five games for the club up until the away fixture at Sheffield Wednesday on December 8.
Should do we for Brizzie. I really wish we wouldn't keep loaning players out to teams in our own league, even if they are near the bottom.
I've not looked at your fixture list, but have you seen their's for the next month? With Blackpool, Middlesbrough, Brighton, and Wolves in the next 5 he can probably make more of a difference to your promotion hopes (and our's I guess) playing for them than he could playing for you.
Fair point, but this is a tight league. Brizzie only need to go on a good run and they could start challenging. That's what Blackpool did when we loaned them DJ Campbell.
Hes not setting the world on fire at Ipswich though, DJ needs the right manager, no doubt Ollie will buy him in Jan. BC will need a run simular to ours PLUS some, they are in a similar position as we were when Sven took over and had unlimited funds, BC wont have the kind of funds to loan a Yakubu type player to get them the goals.
BC have one of the richest chairmen in English football. He could afford to buy anyone, he just doesnt appear to want to make that financial commitment
I cant see Neil Danns coming back here now Richie Wellens has returned. As soon as we can get Danns and Beckford off the books completely the better
I think he can still turn it around. I'd love to have the Danns we had towards the end of last season, much as I rate King/Drinkwater/James, they're all young and need an experienced head to keep them on their toes. I'm quite disappointed really that Danns doesn't seem willing to do this. Wellens will though- I don't think he's ever really going to get a game but he's a great experienced head to have.
I don't think Nige has any interest in keeping Danns. I believe he's one of the big earners he wants rid of. Basically, see Proud's post to see what Nige thinks.
this. We are truly shocking, for us to start challenging at your end of the table we need to go on something like a 10 game winning streak.. we can't even keep the ball for 10 seconds
He's scored 4 in 7 matches for us which is a pretty good return for a team as poor as we have been and was playing upfront alone for the first three matches whilst trying to regain fitness. I hope he scores again tomorrow and I hope we can keep him until the end of the season. There's one thing that's a certainty and that Nugent scoring....
But why - Is it his performances, his attitude, has there been an incident which has caused a falling out or has Nigel just taken against him - I don't think it's his high wages as we pay those whether he plays or not although I suppose we might be avoiding an appearance based payout.
He came on a free transfer so no appearance based payout to another club. Do not think he would have a personal one in his contract?
I think it's based on how he has been using Twitter, Spitter begging himself up complaining he wasn't playing. And when he got his chance against Burton he let Nigel down. His discipline last season was poor. 10 yellows and 2 reds for a player who was a squad player for half the season. Also Andy King and Danny Drinkwater have been playing very well
