The Bristol City Chronicle
Market10 Feb 2031
Lisav Eissat has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bristol City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 Feb 2031
Tempers go at Bristol City
Maxence Lacroix 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.
Boardroom10 Feb 2031
Bristol City to lose Jason Mitchell for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jason Mitchell has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Transfer targets10 Feb 2031
Door shut on Kelvin Neijenhuis
Bristol City asked and Peterborough United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Feb 2031
A row about effort at Bristol City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrey Santos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match8 Feb 2031
Bristol City come up short against Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield Wednesday left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings10 Feb 2031
Jason Knight was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad10 Feb 2031
Home is on Armando Rivas's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Bristol City are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout10 Feb 2031
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Marcelo Moura left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Player ratings Andrey Santos beats them one at a time
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Lukáš Juliš
- The dugout When it matters, Lukáš Horníček plays