'I had a lot more to give' - Wells on Robins exit

Nahki Wells joined Bristol City from Burnley for £5m in January 2020

Forward Nahki Wells said he felt he had "more to give" at Bristol City after leaving the club having not been offered a new contract this summer.

The 35-year-old, who has since signed for Luton in League One, said that he left the Robins after five and a half years with no animosity.

Wells scored 48 goals in 237 games for the club but was out of contract this summer.

"There's a conveyer belt and there's an expiration date for everyone at a football club, I just felt mine was a bit premature," Wells told BBC Radio Bristol.

"I felt like I still had a lot more to give, I still felt I was an important figure on and off the pitch.

"It's just one of those things that we look back and we be forever grateful for everything.

"No animosity and no malice, just happy I got that opportunity because now I look back at it as a huge part of my life as person."

Wells had been in talks with the club over a new contract and former manager Liam Manning had expressed his desire to keep him.

He scored 10 goals in 2024-25 as the club reached the play-offs for the first time in 17 years, where they were ultimately beaten 6-0 on aggregate by Sheffield United.

The Bermuda international said, other than a conversation the morning after the defeat by the Blades, he had no contact with the club until his departure was confirmed.

Asked if he believed he would still be a Robin if Manning, now in charge at Norwich, had stayed Wells said "for sure".

"These things do happen in football [when] there's a change of manager," Wells said.

"It doesn't matter [who made the decision] in the grand scheme of things it was just time to move on in their opinion and we dust our hands off, we say thank you and we move on."