Former Bristol City captain Marlon Pack has made the move to Wales in a six-figure fee move from the Robins to Neil Warnock's Cardiff City.

This is a blow to Bristol City, who had a very good summer in terms of incomings at Ashton Gate, making several signings that will help to improve the side. One of these signings was defensive midfielder Han-Noah Massengo, who signed from AS Monaco for a total of £8m. He may be seen as Marlon Pack's replacement as Bristol City improve the quality of their squad.

It will now be down to Lee Johnson to get all of these players to gel and to try and mount a promotion push. The side just missed out on 6th place and a chance to fire themselves to promotion last season, now is their chance for redemption after strengthening their squad considerably this summer.

However, many other Championship sides have strengthened their squad ahead of the new season and Bristol City will face major challenges throughout this campaign.

Here are two pros and two cons to Bristol City selling their former captain Marlon Pack to recently relegated side Cardiff City.

Pro: Allows the new signings to get a good chance

Bristol City have made several signings in the central midfield department in the transfer window. Whilst the signing of Han-Noah Massengo was arguably the most eye-catching transfer that the Robins made, they also signed other midfield players.

Sammie Szmodics, Kasey Palmer and Adam Nagy have arrived at Ashton Gate and will all be fighting for a place in the starting eleven, with Lee Johnson being given a nice selection dilemma going into their second league game of the 2019/20 season.

If Marlon Pack had stayed at the club, some of the new signings may not have been given a sufficient chance to impress in the upcoming games, which would have been a shame for Lee Johnson and his side because they will have a lot to prove to the manager and the fans.

Pro: Helps the club to balance the books

With the EFL's profit and sustainability rules making it harder than ever for clubs to make marquee signings, some teams have to sell some of the players that wouldn't necessarily have wanted to sell in order to get the key players that they want.

Despite the transfer fee that was received for Pack, he was likely to have been on quite a high wage as the captain of the club. Therefore, it may have been beneficial to get his wages off the books to keep within the constraints of the financial rules.

The last thing that Bristol City need right now is the threat of a points deduction or a transfer embargo as they look to get themselves into the Championship playoff positions at the end of the season.

Con: A small transfer fee

According to Gloucestershire Live, Bristol City only received around £750,000 for their former captain. In modern-day football, that's spare change in the Championship and they would have been disappointed to lose him for a nominal amount like that.

To make that even worse, his former club Cheltenham Town included a 20% sell-on clause in the deal for the midfielder (around £130,000 according to the report). This means that Bristol City received even less for Pack, around the £620,000 mark.

Even though they have made several signings in midfield, this deal for Pack would have been disappointing regardless with Pack being a key player at the club in the past couple of seasons.

Con: They have lost their leader

Pack was Bristol City's captain and to lose your leader when the season has already started will be disheartening for the team who looked up to him in the dressing room.

Although he was a very good player for the Bristol side, he also brought leadership and an experienced head to the team. This is something which is undervalued nowadays with all the big money moves happening in football.

Money can't always buy leadership, let's hope that Bristol City have the characters required to deal with this loss and have other players that can step up to the plate as leaders. Tomas Kalas could be one of those players, a commanding defender who joined permanently from Chelsea in the summer.