Tag: Struber

Bristol City: Boss Gerhard Struber eyes more investment for Premier League push
14 March 2026 Off

Bristol City: Boss Gerhard Struber eyes more investment for Premier League push

By Total Football News

Bristol City boss Gerhard Struber believes the Robins need more investment at all levels to end their 46-year top flight exile.

The Austrian is aware of how the “optics” of selling top stars to promotion rivals in January look to supporters after dropping off the promotion pace.

The Robins, 12th in the Championship, have slipped to seven points adrift of the top six with nine games left.

That slide has

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Tomi Hovart: Strum Graz midfielder on Bristol City’s radar, says Gerhard Struber
14 January 2026 Off

Tomi Hovart: Strum Graz midfielder on Bristol City’s radar, says Gerhard Struber

By Total Football News

The 26-year-old joined Sturm Graz in 2022 and has been part of the side which has won the league title the past two seasons – ending 10 years of Red Bull Salzburg’s dominance – and also twice won the Austrian Cup twice.

He won the first of his 12 international caps in 2022 and has featured for Slovenia in their four most recent World Cup qualifiers.

Struber, who is Austrian

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Gerhard Struber: Bristol City boss has ‘trust’ in squad ahead of tough festive fixtures
5 December 2025 Off

Gerhard Struber: Bristol City boss has ‘trust’ in squad ahead of tough festive fixtures

By Total Football News

Bristol City are currently sixth in the table, one point ahead of the three teams below them, and they face the Lions on Saturday having won two of their past three matches.

Struber said he is not looking beyond the next game, with eight fixtures between now and 4 January, and that ensuring his players are all individually motivated was key to gaining as many points as possible from a

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Max Bird: Bristol City midfielder’s injury “not so good,” says boss Struber
26 September 2025 Off

Max Bird: Bristol City midfielder’s injury “not so good,” says boss Struber

By Total Football News

Bristol City midfielder Max Bird has been ruled out of Saturday’s visit to Preston North End (15:00 BST) with a calf injury that could see him miss an extended period of time.

Bird did not feature in the defeat to Oxford United last Sunday and while boss Gerhard Struber initially thought the injury seemed “not so bad”, that positivity seems to have dampened.

Bird missed the opening game of the

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Gerhard Struber: Bristol City name Austrian as Liam Manning’s successor
19 June 2025 Off

Gerhard Struber: Bristol City name Austrian as Liam Manning’s successor

By Total Football News

Ed Hadwin, BBC Radio Bristol:

Gerhard Struber is only Bristol City’s second-ever manager from mainland Europe, and their first since Swede Benny Lennartsson’s shortlived spell at Ashton Gate, which lasted just eight months and ended in July 1999.

Struber’s only spell managing in England came in 2019-20, when he kept Barnsley in the Championship, before then moving to the City Football Group where he managed teams in both New York

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