Nigel Pearson is never one for divulging any kind of transfer activity, unless it’s very much in his interest to, as was the case when Adam Nagy handed in a request last August. But any questions revolving around possible incomings and outgoings at Ashton Gate are usually replied with a stiff tone and variations on the line, “when anything is happening, you’ll find out about it through the official channels.”
Then again, Pearson has also previously said he likes to play games with the media, using his own bone-dry sense of humour. And both his secretive and mischievous sides collided with the signing of Kal Naismith on Friday night.
It was a deal that took everybody by surprise, not just by the timing. Absolutely nobody outside of BS3 had tracked the Scot’s impending arrival - neither local nor national media - while speaking to people in the game, the transfer has raised a few congratulatory eyebrows with how it was conducted under a cloak of apparent darkness.
