BRISTOL City's entire football administration operation could be installed at the club's Failand training headquarters by this time next year.

The Post this week revealed the club's proposals to purchase additional land adjacent to the present training ground, construct a new pitch and changing facilities to host reserve-team football and move the Academy from Ashton Gate.

Now City chief executive Colin Sexstone has confirmed plans to move administration staff to the site, which lies four miles to the west of Bristol.

New manager Steve Coppell is understood to be unhappy with the current set-up and is pushing for the Failand project to be completed just as quickly as time and funds permit.

For a number of seasons now, City's players have reported to and changed at Ashton Gate, journeyed to Failand by car to train and returned to the stadium for lunch before returning home.

Coppell wants the club's football operation to be centralised, with players spending their time at one venue rather than travelling around the city.

Sexstone said: "The new manager is very keen on the training ground project being completed as quickly as possible. We have already bought the land, are now drawing up plans and hope to have moved the whole football staff to Failand within the next 12 months.

"Steve Coppell has described our current arrangement as 'dysfunctional' and he has a point. Players get changed in one place, train somewhere else, have lunch at Ashton Gate and then use the gym in the Atyeo Stand.

"Our plans for Failand offer us an opportunity to house the entire football operation under one roof. Players will change, train, eat and speak to the media there, our Academy will be there and reserve-team matches will be staged there.

"Eventually, all of the administration staff and management will move to the training headquarters. The new stadium, when it is finished, will essentially be used for football business on match-days only.

"That is the way Steve Coppell wants it and it is the way we have to do things if we aspire to be a big club in the Premier League.

"Our pitches at Failand are second to none and, once the project is complete, we hope it will compare with anything anywhere in the Championship."