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Bristol City’s “frustrating” transfer policy may fund success
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27/11/2024
Daniel Wales and Charles Hague-Jones discuss Bristol City selling prized assets to finance a squad rebuild.
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Dan, looking at Bristol Rovers and sort of their, historically, their sort of transfer
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strategy, you know, it's been come out that they had to sell a lot of homegrown talent
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to succeed in the Championship, but not really managed to even go higher than where they
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were before in the Championship. So it's sort of a difficult situation for them. What do
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you make and what do the fans sort of feel around this and the way things have gone with
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their ownership and their transfer strategy as of late? Because, you know, you have January
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coming up and Bristol City could look like a side who certainly could do with a few assets
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from that window. They are running out of assets personally as well for them. They tend
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to become this club where, you know, as soon as a player breaks through, he's sort of being
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sold on to a top echelon Championship side or even a Premier League side as well. So
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how do you look at where they are and where their sort of strategy has been with transfers
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over the last few years and what needs to actually improve in order for the team to
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go on and do better things as well?
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It's hard to say, though, because, of course, I think what they've done with some of the
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homegrown talent they've had, such as Antoine Semenu, Tommy Conway and Alex Scott, is they've
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not held these players back even when they've outgrown the club. Of course, you've got Semenu
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now playing straight at Bournemouth week in, week out and scoring goals and playing well
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in the Premier League. Tommy Conway went to Middlesbrough and then Alex Scott as well.
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He joined Bournemouth too. So it's hard because, as I say, you don't want to hold these players
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back. But at the same time, if you still had those players in the team right now, you could
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be really challenging up towards the top of the Championship. I mean, the technical director,
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Brian Tinnian, he said that, look, they had to be sold because, as I say, you didn't want
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also because you could get some decent money from them as well. And that's important because
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then it helps to develop the club and helps to finance a rebuild for the whole squad as well.
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And that is important because, to be honest, Bristol City have established themselves as a
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solid mid-table Championship side since they got into the league. But the last time they
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reached the playoffs in the Championship was 2008. It's that long ago and that's,
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for a club that clearly has ambition, that's not good enough.
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Now, the head coach, Liam Manning, he was quoting and saying that
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they want to try and follow a similar model to the Brentford model that we see in the Premier
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League where, yes, they will have to sell some of their prize assets at times, but that's for
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the greater good in the sense that it will finance rebuilds of the squad and you can then bring in
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players to fill the positions where perhaps they need it. And eventually, gradually, the whole
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squad will improve and you might then gradually, season upon season, get to where you want to be.
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It's a long process. Of course, it did, in the end, work for Brentford and has stabilised
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Brentford in the Premier League. But it must be a bit frustrating for fans of the Robins though
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because, of course, year upon year, they're not really achieving much and, as I say,
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the last playoffs they reached was 2008 and that needs to improve.
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