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Summer Recruitment Plans Continue Apace

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  1. wizered

    wizered Ol' Mucker
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    Mark Ashton gives an update on Bristol City's summer recruitment and hints at progress on sealing several deals

    The Robins' chief operating officer was out on the road with Lee Johnson assessing targets this week

    Our summer recruitment plans continue apace with head coach Lee Johnson and chief operating officer Mark Ashton travelling around the country to help land the club's key targets.

    The pair have been meeting with agents, clubs and possibly even the odd player as the Robins try to add to their squad.

    Just like how the club wooed Tammy Abraham by visiting his house and parents, so the duo may be calling in on potential recruits too to try and convince them to make the switch to BS3.

    "We've identified key positions [to strengthen] and key targets and you have to spend your time working through them and doing your homework.

    "Lee and I are out [this week] meeting players' representatives, meeting players' agents, meeting clubs, talking about what we're looking for.

    "Hopefully in the not too distant future we'll see some announcements with players coming in, but we won't rush it," explained Ashton, speaking earlier this week.

    If the club is meeting with player agents then that could hint that deals have been already agreed with the players' clubs, that the club is speaking to out of contract players (such as Lloyd Isgrove or Marley Watkins), that the players being represented are leaving their current clubs or that these are just preliminary 'outline agreement' meetings - where a club's interest is registered with an agent and a broad agreement agreed before negotiations begin between clubs for real.

    "Around the first team we've got the three key areas that we're looking to recruit in. For the here and now, anything we recruit has to make us better," explained Ashton on how many players might be bought over the summer

    The Bristol Post understands this to be a full-back, a striker and a wide attacker. A new goalkeeper may be consdered too.
    "What we don't want to do is collect numbers and players. We have a strong 23 and we had a number of players out on loan last year and when you look at the impact of the closing of the loan window has had, it's important those players are ready.

    "So next season Zak Vyner's going to get game time. There are others... Bobby will probably get more game time. Joe Bryan's had a fantastic season and his game time has quadrupled over the last 18 months", explained Ashton.
    "This underbelly has to come through and support the here and now."

    Ashton also stressed the importance of youth at the club and how the Robins are determined to create a pathway for young talent to progress from the youth sides to the senior team.
    "We have to have a pathway all the way through. We believe it'll be one of the things that make us unique [as a club]," he said.

    The former Oxford United chief executive explained that he believes the Championship's buying and selling will hot up in the next two to three weeks as the key players in the transfer market return from holiday.

    He also divulged that the club has a further internal recruitment meeting this week and that there was no time frame for Aaron Wilbraham to make a decision on the contract offer made by the club that includes non-playing responsibilities.

    The club also has no need to sell players to finance any incomings.

    http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mark-ashton-gives-update-bristol-77037
     
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  2. wizered

    wizered Ol' Mucker
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    Why is it there is plenty of time for this...'The pair have been meeting with agents, clubs and possibly even the odd player'.

    And no time for this...'There was no time frame for Aaron Wilbraham to make a decision on the contract offer made by the club that includes non-playing responsibilities.'

    This kind of management makes me shudder..
     
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  3. Red Robin

    Red Robin Well-Known Member

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    To be quite frank wiz,the speel he came out with is the same old same old stuff. i really do wonder what goes on down there.
     
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  4. tiger-emyrs-wolf

    tiger-emyrs-wolf Well-Known Member

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    Well he spoken to Aaron and his team bout it they are reviewing it and if he says yes he says yes or if he says no he says no and doesn't affect us either way in the main
     
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  5. Red Hub

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    Anybody checked it is not last years interview, sounds like it. Classic statement " LJ wants to work with smaller squad"
    Interviewer "does that mean you will be moving players on" MA - "No, we dont have to"!
     
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  6. Red Robin

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    Waffle with a big W
     
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    Where does it say LJ wants to work with a smaller squad?
     
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    MA's last interview
     
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  9. Red Robin

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    Lets just wonder where we are going ,again second tier, and third tier players on the radar,where is the ambition from SL.
    A quality ground in place,let's see a quality team on the pitch.

    For me we are just going to struggle with the quality the club are looking to recruit.Time to invest in quality players, if we want to compete in the championship.

    #anotherstruggle
     
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  10. Supcon72

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    I agree (god help me), we bought a lot of youth last season and Gary O'Neil apart, not much experience. we need to temper the buying for the future with buying for the here and now.
    This will be a tough tough division again next season and there will be little to seperate the bottom 12-14 clubs, of which I suspect we will be in.
     
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  11. johngalleyfan2

    johngalleyfan2 Well-Known Member

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    IF 2016 /17 was the first year of "the plan" this will be year 2? 2017/18 having acquired some youth! we are in a danger of losing out on experience unless this season we snap up a couple of "older" players.
    ALSO BEAR IN MIND teams have now got a year under their belts of just 2 periods to make purchases loans etc .. and there is likely to be some deep thinking on how they utilise year 2 of this change! WILL teams carry a few hoping to get rid of .. or loan out till Jan?
    RR save beating yourself up every week over manager out etc have a little patience .. and start jumping off high buildings or bridges about next Feb if things do not seem to be going to your way of thinking .........................<hug>
     
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  12. Red Robin

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    JGF this is LJs third window as he asked,i honestly think we are no further forward than the first window,in-fact the team needs strengthening throughout,

    1- new goalkeeper

    2-left back

    3-right back

    4-centre midfield general

    5-right winger

    6-two strikers

    hardly a side that looks like it has been improved,over the last two windows.
     
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  13. BCFCRob

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    You are the gift that keeps on giving mate.

    Mid Jan
    End of May:
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    ERRR Rob that was correct,sadly the side we have now is not the side we are going into next season with.

    Tammy gone,Tomlin going,probably the best two players have or are going.
     
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    When a team constantly talks about the next rebuild it makes me think they are going to the wrong builder's supplier or don't have a clue what part to get next. It never appears to be a cohesive thought process despite all the corporate waffle and business models. or is it just me?

    How nice it would be to enter a season only needing 2 new players, rather than a raft load as usual, and using them with the strong base built during the previous campaign, but we never seem to reach that magical point.
     
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    BCFCRob Well-Known Member

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    Ah I see. So you think that in the space of about 4 months, and with only 1 main player leaving (pretty sure you called for Tomlin to be dropped a few times), that now equates to 'needs strengthening throughout'? #redrobinlogic
     
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  17. RedorDead

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    Didn't you know that Tammy played as a forward, left back, right back, central midfielder and Tomlin played a midfielder and rush back keeper?
     
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  18. Red Hub

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    Tom Ince linked 8.5m bid. Could be bull as on the post website.
     
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  19. Red Robin

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    That is a quality player,love this to happen,can't see it.:emoticon-0148-yes::emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    Would be a total waste of £8 Million, but we all know its bullshit anyway
     
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