Birmingham City have had a busy summer in the transfer window and aren’t done yet as Chris Davies targets further recruits
20:48, 23 Aug 2025Updated 20:49, 23 Aug 2025
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Birmingham City are not done in the transfer market, despite their tenth signing of a mouthwatering summer before this afternoon’s victory over Oxford United.
Blues won for the third match in a row and thanks to Paik Seung-ho’s first half goal have now taken seven points form their first three Championship games.
In the build up to today’s match Blues confirmed the arrival of Lewis Koumas on loan from Liverpool for the season and paraded the 19-year-old on the pitch a quarter of an hour before kick-off.
Koumas joins fellow loan players James Beadle, Eiran Cashin and Tommy Doyle in Davies’ squad and the likes of Kyogo Furuhashi, Phil Neumann, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Demarai Gray, Marvin Ducksch and Kanya Fujimoto who have arrived on a permanent basis.
However, Davies admitted afterwards the club aren’t done yet with just over a week left before the deadline.
“I think we’re still looking to try to finish the squad off. To do that we still need a couple definitely – and that’s a work in progress,” he said.
“As always like most clubs, it’s a moving situation and we just have to be ready to to do what we need to do.”
Reinforcement at left back is an obvious area of need, and the departure of Krystian Bielik has left Davies with three central defenders.
Koumas comes in to bolster his attacking options and the manager is delighted to have pulled of something of a coup for a player linked with the likes of Wrexham and Sheffield United.
“Lewis is obviously coming from a great club, a great education development he’s had there,” he continued.
“He’s had a loan now, obviously his first loan at Stoke, he’s coped well with the Championship last season, played a lot of games.
“He’s a winger, can play across the front, left, right and can play in the middle as well. He’s direct, technically good, he’s got a sense of goal and I love the intensity he plays with, he’s not a lad that sort of waits and things to happen.
“He tries to make things happen, so he’ll make runs, he’ll press and give you a lot of that work without the ball as well.
“So I’m really pleased to have him, with us now because I think there was a lot of competition to try and attract him. He’s obviously been involved in preseason at Liverpool, but I’m really pleased that he chose to join us.”
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