Adam Murphy

Central Midfielder - Bristol City
6 Feb 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Adam Murphy

60 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Bristol City march on in the cup

Accrington Stanley are out and Bristol City go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market

George Tanner asks to leave Bristol City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Both of them Trayvion Jackson's — 8.59

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Kaye Furo, 20, steals the show — 7.63

Marked 7.63 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Only the photograph left for Seb Naylor

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Seb Naylor will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bristol City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Kaye Furo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bristol City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Bristol City rebuffed over Jamie Mullins

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chesterfield have kept their man, and Bristol City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

One of their own: Adam Murphy

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Kaye Furo sends Bristol City past Millwall

It finished 1‑0, and it was Kaye Furo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bristol City.

In brief

Back issues
41 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Jack Griffin

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jack Griffin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bristol City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Nathan Baxter in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bristol City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Park Jin-Seob

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Bristol City keep their word to Alex Rolfini

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Loan watch

Adam Murphy wants to come home

“I did not go to Sheffield Wednesday to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bristol City and fight for my place.” 13 appearances in 39 matches say the rest.

The dugout

Sinclair Armstrong is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

When it matters, Josey Casa-Grande plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Scott Twine talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bristol City know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Loan watch

3 goals on loan for Josh Stokes

40 appearances at Reading and the goals keep coming. Bristol City are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

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The Sheffield Wednesday Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Sheffield Wednesday

Liam Cooper and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Sheffield Wednesday training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Di'Shon Bernard is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

Rio Shipston gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Liam Palmer has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sheffield Wednesday will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Loan watch

Charlie McNeill keeps scoring at Crewe Alexandra

13 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

Adam Murphy knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sheffield Wednesday, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Loan watch

Tyler Onyango first choice at Accrington Stanley

10 starts and a season average of 6.64. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.

Looking ahead

Home comforts ahead for Sheffield Wednesday

Blackburn Rovers, position 6, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.

The dugout

Mason Burstow keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Mason Burstow plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

In brief

2 Edition

The Sheffield Wednesday Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Louie Barry stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Louie Barry and Sheffield Wednesday agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Sheffield Wednesday rebuffed over Róbert Boženík

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stoke City have kept their man, and Sheffield Wednesday go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Liam Cooper in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sheffield Wednesday this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Sheffield United watching George Brown

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sheffield Wednesday have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets

Sheffield Wednesday try to borrow Trey Nyoni

Liverpool have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

Words at Sheffield Wednesday training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Devlan Moses is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

The formation has left Adam Murphy behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Sheffield Wednesday will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Looking ahead

Louie Barry faces his old club

Hull City next, and one man in the Sheffield Wednesday dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

Still no ink between Sheffield Wednesday and Reece James

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sheffield Wednesday, another week without a signature from Reece James.

In brief