Robins' Pring out for 12 weeks with ankle injurypublished at 11:24 BST 17 July 2025
11:24 BST 17 July 2025
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Bristol City defender Cameron Pring is expected to be out for 12 weeks after picking up an ankle ligament injury during the side's training camp in Portugal.
The 27-year-old left-back is set to have surgery after being assessed back in Bristol.
It is the fourth injury Pring has sustained in less than a year, missing 14 Championship games last season due to issues with his hamstring plus a lower leg laceration in October.
Pring also missed out on the final two games of the regular season but did return to start the second leg of their play-off semi-final defeat by Sheffield United in May.
O'Leary out for 'three to four' monthspublished at 08:30 BST 15 July 2025
08:30 BST 15 July 2025
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Max O'Leary has been a constant for Bristol City in goal the past few seasons
Bristol City goalkeeper Max O'Leary faces three to four months on the sidelines following surgery on his ankle.
The 28-year-old played every minute of every Championship match for the Robins for the past two seasons.
Full-back Luke McNally has also suffered a "minor setback" in his recovery from the anterior cruciate ligament injury that has kept him out since February, a club statement said.
Left-back Cam Pring also sustained an ankle injury during the pre-season training camp in Portugal, which concluded last week, and is due to be assessed on return to Bristol.
Midfielder Joe Williams - who went off during the play-off semi-final first leg defeat by Sheffield United in May with an ankle ligament injury - and Max Bird are both "hopeful" of being available for the start of the season.
City begin their Championship campaign away at the Blades on Saturday, 9 August at 17:30 BST.
Robins keeper Thomas signs new one-year dealpublished at 09:16 BST 2 July 2025
09:16 BST 2 July 2025
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Bristol City goalkeeper Lewis Thomas has signed a new one-year contract with the club, with the option of a further year.
The 27-year-old has yet to make an appearance for the Robins since joining in 2023.
Thomas began his career with Swansea and spent five years with Forest Green Rovers, where he worked alongside Bristol City goalkeeping coach Pat Mountain.
City start their Championship campaign away at Sheffield United on 9 August.
Riis 'a really good signing' for Robinspublished at 14:44 BST 1 July 2025
14:44 BST 1 July 2025
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'City have signed a very good player'
"To get a player of his standard on a free transfer is a really good signing for Bristol City.
"He suffered a bit last season, coming off the bench, and I think there was an acceptance that Emil was going to leave at the end of the season from quite early on."
BBC Radio Lancashire's Gary Hunt speaks to Richard Hoskin about the Robins' latest acquisition, Emil Riis Jakobsen, following his departure from Preston North End.
Bristol City coaches following Manning to Norwichpublished at 16:28 BST 27 June 2025
16:28 BST 27 June 2025
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Chris Hogg, right, will be Liam Manning's assistant coach at Carrow Road
Chris Hogg and James Krause have left Bristol City to join Liam Manning's coaching team at Norwich.
Former Hibernian player Hogg, 40, will be assistant head coach, having worked with Manning at the Robins, Oxford United and MK Dons, and also has previous coaching experience at Newcastle United.
New first-team coach analyst Krause also worked with Manning at Ashton Gate and the MKM Stadium, and previous worked at Arsenal.
They join first team coach Ryan Garry, who has arrived from Lommel SK and previously was part of the youth set-up at the Gunners and England.
Sporting director Ben Knapper told the Canaries, external website: "Chris and James are, of course, well known to Liam, both forming a key part of his staff for some time now, across multiple clubs.
"They have both slotted in seamlessly this week and will be key in supporting Liam and the staff more broadly in creating a top-class environment for our players.
"It's a really exciting team to be supporting Liam in delivering a truly elite football programme."
Eibler joins Robins as Struber's assistantpublished at 16:19 BST 27 June 2025
16:19 BST 27 June 2025
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Bristol City have appointed Bernd Eibler as assistant head coach following the departure of Chris Hogg to rejoin former boss Liam Manning at Norwich City.
The Austrian has previously worked alongside new Robins boss Gerhard Struber at MLS team New York Red Bulls and German side FC Cologne.
This will be the first time Eibler, who did not play football professionally, has worked in English football.
"Bernd is a bright young coach who will bring an energy and football development to the club," Struber told the club website., external
"I am very glad to have him join me at Bristol City."
Third time lucky for a foreign Robins coach?published at 15:24 BST 20 June 2025
15:24 BST 20 June 2025
David Pottier Fan writer
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So City have a new head coach in Austrian Gerhard Struber. Judging by fan sentiment expressed on social media, it seems a popular appointment and certainly won't divide supporters like when Liam Manning came in for the popular Nigel Pearson in November 2023.
This is City's first European managerial appointment since 1998 when Benny Lennartsson was hired by then chairman Scott Davidson to "help" John Ward, who barely four months earlier had guided City to promotion back to the Championship.
John had actually asked for help and wanted to bring in the experienced Ray Harford but the City hierarchy went for the 'fashionable' coach option.
John actually resigned feeling his position had become untenable and the red cap wearing Swede had the worst start of any City manager in the post-war years.
City lost 5-0 to Bradford City at Valley Parade in his first game in charge and things got even worse in his second as they went down 6-1 at home to Wolves, a match remembered perhaps more for the mascot punch up between Wolfie & the Three Little Pigs!! Lennartsson won only six of his 30 league games in charge as City were relegated.
If you go back to 1980, City took the foreign option for the first time when hiring Bob Houghton to replace the long serving Alan Dicks.
Houghton, with a young Roy Hodgson as his assistant, had a decent pedigree having guided Malmo to the European Cup Final the previous year - they lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest - as City sought to make a quick return to the top flight where they had been since 1976.
The die had already been cast in terms of City's fate as the financial troubles mounted by the week and the ageing side began to disintegrate. City were relegated for a second successive season and in the January of 1982, Houghton resigned before the volcano of financial despair erupted and what followed was all that we associate with the Ashton Gate Eight.
Let's hope it is third time lucky for City with a foreign coaching appointment and we are not hearing cries of "Uber for Struber" before the turn of the year.
Personally, I'm excited by what I read about his preferred way of playing and as a person I think we might see someone who wears his heart on his sleeve, which will excite the Ashton Gate faithful who warm to managers who don't stay rooted within the technical area.
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