Bristol City are yet to sign a replacement for Famara Diedhiou, who left the South West club earlier this summer as a free agent. 

Nigel Pearson has suggested that a player will have to be sold for a new striker to arrive at Ashton Gate, in what looks like a blow to their hopes of adding more firepower.

Diedhiou's final season in Bs3 may have ended disappointingly but he proved his worth over the years – scoring 51 times in his four seasons with the Robins.

With the Senegal international gone, Pearson does still have Andreas Weimann, Nakhi Wells, Chris Martin, and Antoine Semenyo but you feel he could do with a bit more firepower.

The Robins have had some fantastic strikers in the past decade and you feel supporters would love to be able to call upon a few of those next season.

With that in mind, we've compiled a list of Bristol City's top goalscorers from the last 10 seasons...

We start with Nicky Maynard, who proved a lethal goalscorer for the Robins over the years.

He scored 46 goals in 132 appearances for City, having first joined them from Crewe in 2008 for a fee in the region of £3 million.

Maynard only played half of the 2011/12 campaign – leaving in January to join West Ham United – but still finished the season as top scorer with eight goals in 27 appearances.

The season was a difficult one for the Robins, who looked like relegation candidates for long periods but put together an impressive late run to secure their Championship status.

The following season would see City relegated from the Championship – finishing rock bottom of the second tier table in what was all in all a dismal campaign.

The Robins rotated their strikers fairly regularly in 2012/13, with the likes of Steve Davies, Sam Baldock, Jon Stead, and Ryan Taylor all chipping in with goals.

It was Davies that would finish the season as City's top scorer. The Englishman scored 12 times in his 38 appearances in all competitions.

That would prove his final season at Ashton Gate, however, as he left to join Blackpool in July 2013 for around £500,000.

The Robins' first season back in League One didn't quite go to plan as they found themselves in a concerning position through the early months before finding their feet after Steve Cotterill took charge in December.

One of the players that can be proud of his displays throughout the 2013/14 campaign is Sam Baldock, who bagged 26 goals from his 54 appearances in all competitions.

He was City's top scorer but Jay Emmanuel-Thomas was not far behind, with 21 goals of his own.

The 2013/14 campaign was Baldock's last as a Robins player as he moved to Brighton in a multi-million-pound deal in August 2014.

With Baldock gone, City moved for the experienced Aaron Wilbraham and it would prove a masterstroke.

The seasoned forward bagged 21 goals as he helped the Robins win a historic double – securing promotion to the Championship as League One champions and lifting the EFL Trophy.

Cotterill's side proved far too much for opposition sides in 2014/15 and there were goals throughout the team, with centre-back Aden Flint adding 15, Kieran Agard scoring 14, Matt Smith bagging 13, and Emmanuel-Thomas getting 12.

Wilbraham was the best of the lot, however, making his move on a free transfer looking like a very shrewd bit of business indeed.

The Robins returned to the Championship in 2015/16 and signed Ivory Coast striker Jonathan Kodjia in preparation for life back in the second tier.

He would prove an excellent signing, finishing as their top scorer with 19 goals in 48 appearances.

It wasn't a worrying season at times for City, who sacked Cotterill and replaced him with Lee Johnson but they retained their Championship status all the same.

Kodjia's stay in Bs3 lasted just the one season as Aston Villa snapped him up in August 2015 for nearly four times what City paid for him – a lovely bit of profit for the Robins.

How City fans would love to have this man to call upon for the 2016/17 season.

Tammy Abraham's single-season at Ashton Gate was nothing short of glorious.

Joining on loan from Chelsea as a teenager, Abraham quickly won over the hearts of the Robins supporters by firing in goals.

He scored 26 in total as City finished the season 17th in the Championship before returning to Chelsea.

Premier League goals, a Champions League winners medal, and an England call up have all followed – Robins fans may argue that's what can happen when you cut your teeth at Ashton Gate.

The emergence of Bobby Reid as a goalscorer meant that Abraham's absence was quickly forgotten about in 2017/18.

Originally a central midfielder, Johnson pushed the Bristol-born academy product further forward to great success.

Reid scored 21 goals in all competitions and formed a strong relationship with new arrival Famara Diedhiou, who bagged 14 himself.

Johnson's side would fall short of the play-offs after a strong start that season but their EFL Cup run to the semi-finals saw them claim multiple Premier League scalps, including Manchester United.

In what's become a common theme on this list, Reid left the summer after his brilliant season – controversially joining rivals Cardiff City.

Reid's departure meant Diedhiou had the opportunity to step out of his shadow and he finished the 2018/19 campaign as City's leading scorer.

The Senegal international could quite emulate his tally from the previous campaign, however, scoring 13 times in 44 appearances across all competitions.

New arrival Andreas Weimann also chipped in with 10 but the South West club would fall short of the play-offs once again.

The eighth-place finish that the Robins achieved in 2018/19 would turn out to be their highest during Johnson's tenure, in what was his last full season in charge at Ashton Gate.

Diedhiou would equal his finest goal tally for the Robins in 2019/20 – scooping the club's Player of the Season award as he did it.

Even so, the season would saw a significant change at Ashton Gate as Johnson was sacked once City had fallen out of contention for the play-offs.

Dean Holden took charge as caretaker boss late in the campaign and impressed enough to get the permanent job later that summer.

Meanwhile, City's top scorer and reigning Player of the Season entered the final year of his contract – a story that dominated the Robins news cycle for some time.

Last season was hugely disappointing for City and could've seen them relegated to League One, were it not for Player of the Season Dan Bentley and their impressive early form.

Diedhiou's contract situation was an ongoing talking point and seemed to impact his form on the pitch, while the Robins were relatively toothless in the final third in general.

Nahki Wells finished as top scorer with 11 goals, which he deserves credit for given the struggles that City had throughout the campaign.

Pearson took charge in the latter part of the season and now seems to be on the lookout for a new striker ahead of 2021/22.