Josh Neufville claims he is a “winner” following Bradford City move

The latest West Yorkshire sport headlines, from Daniel Wales.

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00:00Bradford City's fourth summer signing Josh Neufill has claimed in an interview that he is a winner

00:06and he wants to continue on the success that Bradford have created by being promoted from League 2 to League 1.

00:13Yeah, I said to the gaffer when I first spoke to him that it was quite interesting to me that

00:17last season you signed a lot of players from Stockport.

00:20You signed a lot of players this season already this summer that are hungry

00:24because they've already had that promotion.

00:26You've got lads, I think it's well reported that Sarsovich has got about eight promotions

00:30so I'm looking at that and going around, I want to be around winners.

00:34I'm a winner myself.

00:35This is obviously my first promotion that I featured in at Wembley not long ago

00:40but I'm looking at this football club and going we want to go back to back,

00:44we want to be in and around it this season, we don't just want to be here just to make up the numbers

00:48so that's why I want to be a part of this season.

00:50I can imagine that the atmosphere after the last game of the season,

00:53the momentum will be absolutely cooking, the city should be buzzing given how they ended the season

00:59so that's what I wanted to be a part of.

01:01Minister, you had a chat with the gaffer, what's it been like the last couple of days

01:03getting this deal done for yourself?

01:05I think my agent's going to be a bit annoyed because I've been on to him for the last few days

01:09trying to get it over the line.

01:10And Bradford City CEO Ryan Sparks has praised the contribution of manager Graham Alexander

01:16in helping the Bantam secure that all-important promotion back to League One.

01:23Yeah, yeah, I mean obviously came to the club in a tricky spot for us in terms of where we were.

01:28The season hadn't started well, we'd had a pretty disappointing summer if I'm honest

01:33and it was playing out on the pitch, which often happens.

01:39It eventually ends up on the grass.

01:43In that season, there were two or three moments where we looked like we were turning ourselves around

01:47and right at the end we had a great run and it wasn't meant to be, agonising.

01:51And that energy, sorry, the feeling that that left, we'd probably fed off that energy going into the summer

01:57of not wanting to feel that again.

01:59And at the very least we wanted it to be a play-off side that was going to push for the top three.

02:03And we had a budget to do it.

02:07That's, you know, a key difference is that we were given, you know,

02:12you look at the players we're able to bring in the door.

02:14I don't know.

02:14No.