David Pearson

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
4 Oct 2027
Monday
Process

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The Bristol City Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Emil Riis moves on

Wolverhampton pay $7.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Tempers go at Bristol City

Max Bird was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Oscar Bobb runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

One of those days for Tomi Horvat

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Bristol City find a way past Rotherham United

Rotherham United made Bristol City work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Jason Knight in the eights

A performance of 8.99 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Radek Vítek

“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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Mark Sykes

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market

Middlesbrough are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Bristol City will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief