Gary Johnson has revealed that no further contract talks with Dele Adebola are planned until the summer.
Striker to make decision on future in summer
Bristol City manager Gary Johnson has revealed that no further contract talks with striker Dele Adebola are planned until the end of the season.
The Nigerian forward has been in great form for the Robins this season and the news that his contract is set to expire in the summer has alerted potential suitors.
The likes of Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and Queens Park Rangers are all understood to be keeping tabs on his situation.
And Johnson has made it clear that Adebola, 33, will make the final decision about his future in the summer.
"There has been no progress on contract talks with Dele and there won't be now until the end of the season," Johnson told
skysports.com.
"We had our chances to negotiate and like most players over the age of 24, and Dele is well over 24, the player reserves his right to wait until the end of the season and see what is out there for him.
No problem
"That is fair enough and as long as it doesn't affect his performances, which it hasn't, then we don't have a problem with that.
"Obviously we want him to stay and the offer that we have made tells him that we want him to stay, but it his prerogative and we will have to wait and see."
A last-minute penalty from Ipswich's on-loan striker Giovani Dos Santos cost the Robins two points on Easter Monday.
City are now nine points off the top six with just three games remaining and Johnson accepts that realistically his men have no chance of securing a play-off berth.
"It is still mathematically possible for us to pip Burnley into that final play-off place, but I would say it is nigh-on-impossible for us to do so after that late penalty we conceded," he admitted.
