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Bristol City restoke interest in former Leeds United target

The Joel Ekstrand saga seems to be dragging out some over the past week or so when clubs first started to be linked with the former Watford player. A player recovering from a serious knee injury, Ekstrand is a man looking for a way back into football.

Inside Futbol and BBC Radio Leeds’ Adam Pope say that Bristol City are ready to offer him a route back into the beautiful game. The story of Joel Ekstrand has become a well-known one over the past week-or-so.

Ekstrand, a two-cap Sweden international, last played competitively for the Hornets in March 2015, a game where he suffered a cruciate knee injury against Ipswich. The severity of the injury has meant that he missed all of Watford’s Premier League campaign, being released at the end of the season just gone.

Both Inside Futbol and Adam Pope (below) also say that Ekstrand, in order to prove his fitness to potential suitors, has undergone a further scan with an aim to improve his chances of convincing a side to take a chance on him.

Further scan aside, Leeds United have already said, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP), that they will not be taking a gamble on Ekstrand’s fitness on a permanent signing. The YEP did say that a “pay as you play deal is still being mooted as a possibility”, but Adam Pope’s Tweet (below) seems to pour scorn on that notion.

With Leeds United seemingly out of the running, all that remains to be seen is whether Bristol City are willing to take a punt on the former Hornet and whether this will prove to be a sting in the rump for the Whites.

At the moment, no one can really say for certain what will happen as the Ekstrand drama rolls on yet again.

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