{"id":686998,"date":"2026-07-12T02:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686998\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:57:17","slug":"brad-collins-bristol-city-sign-goalkeeper-after-coventry-city-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686998\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Collins: Bristol City sign goalkeeper after Coventry City exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol City have signed goalkeeper Brad Collins on a two-year deal after he was released by Coventry City earlier in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old was out on loan in League One with Burton Albion last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While he did not feature for the Sky Blues in their Championship title-winning campaign to return to the Premier League last term, he did make 46 appearances for the club before that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Collins, who was on the books at Chelsea as a youth player, moved to Coventry in the summer of 2023 from Barnsley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol City manager Michael Skubala said Collins would come in to add competition to the goalkeeping department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has good experience and will add to the squad in a positive way,&#8221; Skubala told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcfc.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol City have signed goalkeeper Brad Collins on a two-year deal after he was released by Coventry City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686998","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\/686998","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=686998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}