{"id":299457,"date":"2025-07-28T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T21:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299457\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T21:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T21:17:14","slug":"bristol-city-sign-manchester-united-keeper-radek-vitek-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299457\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol City sign Manchester United keeper Radek Vitek on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bristol City have signed Manchester United goalkeeper Radek Vitek on loan for the season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old joins the Championship club for the upcoming campaign with the Premier League club retaining the option of a January recall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It follows a successful loan spell with Austrian Bundesliga club FC Blau-Weiss Linz last season in which he helped the club achieve their highest-ever league position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vitek, a Czech Republic U20 international, also had a loan spell with Accrington Stanley in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mid-season break clause demonstrates how highly United rate the player who recently signed a new deal at Old Trafford until 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But with Robins&#8217; first-choice goalkeeper Max O&#8217;Leary facing up to four months out following ankle surgery, the prospect of regular action with City works for all parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City finished last term in sixth spot in England&#8217;s second tier, before losing out to Sheffield United in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They kick off the Championship season away to the Blades on Saturday, 9 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol City have signed Manchester United goalkeeper Radek Vitek on loan for the season. The 21-year-old joins the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-299457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114932943658880102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299457","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=299457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}