{"id":672803,"date":"2026-07-04T04:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672803\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T04:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:01:27","slug":"jed-wallace-midfielder-joins-bristol-city-after-leaving-west-brom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672803\/","title":{"rendered":"Jed Wallace: Midfielder joins Bristol City after leaving West Brom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol City have signed midfielder Jed Wallace on a two-year deal after he left Championship rivals West Bromwich Albion at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old spent four seasons with the Baggies, making 140 league appearances and scoring 15 goals but was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz92jje0dd5o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not offered a new contract<\/a> at The Hawthorns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wallace won the League One play-offs with Millwall in 2017 and also helped West Brom reach the Championship play-off semi-finals in the 2023-24 season where they lost to Southampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a huge opportunity for us this season to achieve something and I hope I can help the leaders here in the group already,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcfc.co.uk\/city-men-news\/city-sign-wallace\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Bristol City website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There will be plenty of ups and downs, so it is important the experienced players in the dressing room hold that together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He becomes new Bristol City boss Michael Skubala&#8217;s fourth signing since he was appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yrv03l7wxo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in May,<\/a> with midfielders Gibson Yah and Sam Greenwood and goalkeeper Sam Tickle all moving to Ashton Gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know what a brilliant player Jed is and to bring in someone of his quality who has played so much at the level is extremely positive,&#8221; Skubala added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol City open the new Championship season at home to Millwall on Saturday, 15 August (15:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol City have signed midfielder Jed Wallace on a two-year deal after he left Championship rivals West Bromwich&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}