{"id":237807,"date":"2026-07-07T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237807\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:46:09","slug":"bristol-city-midfielder-heavily-linked-with-move-to-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237807\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol City midfielder heavily linked with move to Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 22-year-old signed for Bristol City in 2024 after impressing during his debut season with Aldershot Town.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Since joining the Robins he has enjoyed two successful loans spells with Cambridge United and Stockport County both in League One.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Stokes predominantly plays as an attacking midfielder and has made 52 appearances in the third tier whilst scoring 10 goals and providing four assists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The attacking midfielder also helped Stockport County in their bid for promotion out of League One &#8211; where he played in the two semi-final legs against Stevenage and against Bolton Wanderers in the final.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Stokes is a versatile player who can play as a 10 but can also be played on the either wing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He still has two years left on his contract with Bristol City, so a fee would be necessary to secure his services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 22-year-old signed for Bristol City in 2024 after impressing during his debut season with Aldershot Town. Since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-237807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}