We want to be competing with Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. When you say those names with Bristol Academy alongside it, a lot of people will say we're doing well to compete.They have already progressed to the FA Cup quarter-finals this season and meet Everton on Sunday, before facing the Blues again in the league the following Thursday.We want to be able to do that and maybe overtake them.It's about modernising and moving forward," he continued. "It speaks volumes for us that we can be so open-minded that we can make a change to help us.Bristol Academy previously had an affiliation with City's rivals Bristol Rovers, but have been a standalone club since 2006.I think it's going to be a positive step forward. We're in a position where we want to expand and get better because we can't do it on our own.Academy are based at the SGS College at Filton, which is also home to Bristol City's youth academy set-up.I felt towards the end of the year we suffered from a lack of quality in depth. We played a lot of games in a short space of time and it came back to bite us in the backside.Sampson's side finished fourth in the Super League last season, as well as reaching the semi-finals of the FA Cup and League Cup.
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