Bristol City sign Burgzorg on loan and Naylor

Bristol City have signed forward Delano Burgzorg from Championship rivals Middlesbrough on loan and defender Seb Naylor from Manchester City for an undisclosed fee.

Dutchman Burgzorg has played 71 games for Boro, including 25 in the league this season, scoring eight goals in his season and a half with the club and has joined the Robins on a deal until the end of the season.

Naylor, 20, has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal having been part of Manchester City's academy since the age of eight, although he has yet to make a first-team appearance.

He was part of the club's under-18 team that won the FA Youth Cup in 2023-24 and the following season won the Premier League 2 with Manchester City Under-21s, playing in 19 games.

The Robins had been linked with a move for Burgzorg throughout the January transfer window.

The 27-year-old, who has also spent time on loan with Huddersfield Town, signed a four-year contract on Teesside in 2024 when he joined from Bundesliga club Mainz.

"We did it, he's here and now we start the time to integrate him very quick in our football style," Bristol City head coach Gerhard Struber told BBC Radio Bristol.

"We are happy that we can finalise the long story in a successful way.

"It was the clear goal that we have to make our roster bigger and stronger especially in the striker position and he is a player that can give us a really good dynamic, physical power and we have to develop him."

The duo are City's third and fourth January signing after Sam Morsy and fellow midfielder George Earthy, the latter returning for a second loan spell from West Ham.

Struber has been keen to add to the Robins' attacking line-up for some time, to provide support for Emil Riis who signed last summer.

Following initial interest from City at the beginning of the transfer window, Burgzorg's move to Ashton Gate looked like it had fallen through last week.

Suggesting his side had missed out on signing Burgzorg, Struber told BBC Radio Bristol: "We were super close, everything was negotiated in a really good way but we get the stop signs from Middlesbrough."

But, after selling forward Anis Mehmeti to Ipswich Town on Friday, City decided to re-open talks with Boro and have finally landed their long-established target with four days of the window remaining.

Struber said he was "relieved" to get the deal completed and stressed the aim was to continue to develop Burgzorg, who has scored just twice for Boro this campaign.

"This is now the moment where we have to bring out the best of Delano and help him and support him [so] that he [at] Bristol City [is] not just a dynamic, physical striker but also he's a striker who scores goals."

Struber described Naylor as a "player for the future" but also someone he wants to bring into the team as soon as possible.

"We have no time to lose here with Seb, I have had one training [session] with him but you can see very quick his big talent - on-ball power on a really high level, Man City's school we can smell when we see him," Struber added.