Bristol City concluded an important piece of transfer business on Wednesday when they confirmed the signing of Spanish free agent Rodri.

The 29-year-old has been without a club since being released by Granada in the summer having made 34 appearances for the La Liga side, scoring five goals.

He graduated through the youth system at Sevilla before being poached by Barcelona B, also boasting experience in the Bundesliga with 1860 Munich.

Most notably, however, is perhaps the 11 matches of Championship football he played with Sheffield Wednesday during the six months he spent on loan with the Owls, netting just one goal.

With Benik Afobe being ruled out until the end of the season, the Robins certainly needed to strengthen their attacking options and Johnson will be hoping that is what Rodri will do.

However, one player who will perhaps be less happy with the Spaniard's arrival is young Robins' attacker Antoine Semenyo.

After Afobe was ruled out with injury, he saw his first-team game time increase significantly, racking up five appearances, four of them spent in the centre-forward role.

Whilst they were not his finest games, Semenyo will undoubtedly have felt himself progressing at the club in which he has spent most of his life.

Last season saw him impress whilst out on loan with Newport County in League Two, scoring six goals and assisting two more from out wide.

He will have been optimistic of kicking on at Ashton Gate this time but with Rodri arriving and Johnson's preferance to wing-backs over wingers, those chances now look slim.

Rodri's record is hardly much to shout about either. Just one goal for Sheffield Wednesday in a bitterly disappointing spell will only make the pill harder to swallow for Semenyo.

It may, on the other hand, offer him a small glimmer of hope that there is a good chance he will be able to squirm back into the squad.

But for now, he has every right to feel dispondent. With Andi Weimann and Famara Diedhiou leading the line for now, his opportunities in the first-team seem numbered.

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