Bristol City have become the seventh Championship club to appoint a new manager this summer.
The Robins finished sixth in the second-tier last season before losing heavily to Sheffield United in the play-off semi-finals. Boss Liam Manning, a former Ipswich youth team player and academy coach, was subsequently poached by Norwich City.
The South West club have today announced that Gerhard Struber is their new man at the helm.
The 48-year-old Austrian guided newly-promoted Barnsley to a 21st place Championship finish in 2019/20. He went on to have spells in charge at New York Red Bulls, Red Bull Salzburg and FC Köln, getting fired by the latter in May despite leading them to the 2. Bundesliga title.
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Bristol City chairman Jon Lansdown said: “For the last four years, we have moved our academy teams towards a high intensity, pressing style of play, and combined this with recruiting younger players with those same capabilities for the first team.
“Gerhard’s style is perfectly suited to this way of playing and his passion for developing younger players is also a great fit for our club."
Struber said: “This is a very interesting group, and I think they did a great job last season and were very successful. Right now is the time to build and do everything we can to take us to the next level.
“I like to play with high intensity on the field. We will control, we will dominate the game, and we’ll play attractive football for the fans."
That's now seven Championship club who have appointed a new boss since the end of last season following on from Southampton (Will Still), West Brom (Ryan Mason), Norwich (Liam Manning), Watford (Paulo Pezzolano), Hull City (Sergej Jakirovic) and Sheffield United (Ruben Selles).
A vacancy still remains at Middlesbrough, with Rob Edwards in line to replace Michael Carrick there, while change looks likely to come at both Leicester and QPR (Marti Cifuentes is currently on gardening leave).
Ipswich's Kieran McKenna, appointed in December 2021, is now the 11th longest-serving manager across England's top four divisions and second in the Championship (to Wrexham's Phil Parkinson).
