And that could result in at least 12 first-team squad members leaving Ashton Gate during the close season. Mark Wilson, Matthew Bates and Brian Howard all signed short-term deals in February and look certain to be gone when these expire in May. Strikers Jon Stead and Ryan Taylor, centre-back Lewin Nyatanga, midfielder Cole Skuse and long-serving defender Louis Carey are all out of contract and have yet to be offered new deals. Fellow keepers Dean Gerken and Lewis Carey are in the same position, as is academy product Aaron Amadi-Holloway, whose season has been disrupted by injury. Strikers Sam Baldock and Steven Davies are still under contract, but have scored 22 goals between them in a struggling team and could attract interest from Championship clubs, while young left-back Greg Cunningham could also be a target for clubs in the second tier after impressing this term. Albert Adomah is another first-team player whose future appears uncertain,Heaton is another who could be gone if the Robins drop a level and Skuse is likely to be in demand. Senior players still under contract for next season include Marvin Elliott, Liam Fontaine, Neil Kilkenny, James Wilson, Stephen Pearson, Richard Foster, Brendan Moloney and Liam Kelly. Although some of those will stay on, relegation to League One will almost certainly see youngsters Bobby Reid, Joe Bryan, Wes Burns and Kevin Krans play a more prominent role in the first team next season. So that is 12 definite and 6 probably making 18 leaving us, so with 8 senior and 4 youngsters with experience in our first team squad, that's surely is not a bad foundation to kick off life in the 3rd tier....? http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Rele...tory-18664825-detail/story.html#axzz2Q31gqPvP
A new young squad, and a new sustainable approach. I'm excited by it. What worries me in the financial hangover of the complete mismanagement of the club over recent years.
I'm with you redbaron in having serious concerns about our financial future given that we wasted millions of pounds getting nowhere. We lived in a very precarious world and ignored all the warning signs that were so obvious to the rest of the Bristol City world. When you have emptied your bank account then you seriously limit the options available to you in a regrowth environment, and although a positive attitude for the future is regarded as admirable, I question where was that commitment to due diligence when we needed it the most?
Clear the lot out,they have been a joke all season. SoD is the manager to sort the mess out,let him build us from top to bottom. May take a few seasons but so be it.
I think most of the first 11 will be gone, sorry Shiny but that will include Marv as to remain an international he needs to be playing at his current level or better. Unfortuntely the one player who will end up still with us will be fontain as he wont pass a medical to go anywhere else. Heaton is the main player i will be sad to see who out of contract should attract interest from other clubs. Again Cunningham is a very good player but if he was to lose we would have Bryan who would fit perfect in to that position.
Our only hope of keeping our best players that are still under contract is the FFP rules, as many teams will not pay the fees and wages these players want because of the FFP. We all wanted a clearout last summer and we did not get it, I fear that we will this season and it will not be the players we want to be gone going, but all the ones we wanted to keep. I think SOD is going to have his work cut out blending in a vast number of new players ahead of next season in L1.
