Bristol City<\/a> came knocking\u2019, with a series of Zoom calls that initially involved Ashton Gate technical director Brian Tinnion presenting the club to Struber and urging him to be involved.<\/p>\nThen followed virtual meetings with club chairman Jon Lansdown, before Struber arrived in England only yesterday (Wednesday) to sign a three-year deal.<\/p>\n
Known for his high-press, high-intensity and more direct attacking football, it will be something of a change from former boss Liam Manning\u2019s more technical and methodical approach on the pitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat can they expect from me? I love it to have players on the field who have left everything on the field, they are brave in all moments, they are convinced how we want to come in with our typical style of play, which is with a very good intensity, with a very vertical style, but also in the end we want control, we want domination and this is what we start in the middle of next week,\u201d said Struber.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like to play with high intensity on the field. We will control, we will dominate the game, and we\u2019ll play attractive football for the fans. We need them behind us, we need them over the whole season and with us through the ups and downs. We need the twelfth man behind us to help us achieve and take the next step,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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Bristol City have finally ended weeks of speculation and named Gerhard Struber as the new head coach of the men’s team with a three-year deal this afternoon, Thursday 19 June 2025 at a press conference at Ashton Gate.(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n
Struber admitted he knew little about the players when he agreed to join, but said he recognised the club had a successful season in reaching the play-offs with a sixth place finish. He stopped short of proclaiming that the target was promotion to the Premier League, but spoke at length about how it was important to work day-to-day rather than focus on long-term dreams.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very excited for the job here with great fans and a great team. I\u2019m looking forward to a new task,\u201d he said. \u201cThe style of play here fits completely, especially developing young players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very interesting group, and I think they did a great job last season and were very successful. Right now is the time to build and do everything we can to take us to the next level.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe big responsibility is in the first team, to build, develop and create results but at the same time it is a duty to bring players from the local area and into the academy and give them a pathway to become a professional footballer at Bristol City,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Struber has Championship experience – he saved Barnsley from relegation in the Covid-disrupted season of 2019-20 – and said he remembered well the visit to Ashton Gate that year, before Covid hit, which saw his team lose to a late Niclas Eliasson goal, despite dominating the game.<\/p>\n
He left at the end of that season for the Red Bull franchise, first in New York then Salzburg, which saw him take a young Austrian team into the Champions League, before taking the reins in Cologne a year ago.<\/p>\n
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Bristol City chairman Jon Lansdown(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n
The odd manner of his departure from Koln opened the door for City, themselves unexpectedly finding themselves without a manager, and technical director Brian Tinnion was tasked with persuading Struber of the Ashton Gate vision.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur initial conversation, which I wasn\u2019t part of, was us presenting to Gerhard \u2018this is what Bristl City Football Club is about, this is what we\u2019re looking for, this is why we\u2019re interested in talking to you,\u201d explained chairman Jon Lansdown. \u201cIt was a very open, very quick and both sides could see very quickly there was an interest,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Struber admitted he was preparing to have a break from football after the bruising sacking from a title winning team. \u201cQuite frankly my feeling was much more that I wanted to take a break after Cologne, but when England are calling and Bristol City knock on the door, of course you start thinking, and then I come into these conversations and these conversations trigger me completely, so in a way no I jump back and I have energy,\u201d the Austrian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“When Bristol City knock on the door of course I jump”Bristol City have finally ended weeks of speculation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[33936,381,2686,10648,748,393,14590,4884,10002,8467,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-197701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-ashton-gate","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-bristol-city-fc","11":"tag-bristol-live","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-football-league-championship","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-south-bristol","17":"tag-uefa-champions-league","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114711240666150942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Bristol City have finally ended weeks of speculation and named Gerhard Struber as the new head coach of the men’s team with a three-year deal this afternoon, Thursday 19 June 2025 at a press conference at Ashton Gate.(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n