{"id":154824,"date":"2025-06-03T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154824\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T12:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:51:11","slug":"darragh-macanthony-makes-stark-disappear-threat-as-birmingham-city-wait-on-kwame-poku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154824\/","title":{"rendered":"Darragh MacAnthony makes stark &#8216;disappear&#8217; threat as Birmingham City wait on Kwame Poku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City are in the mix to sign Kwame Poku from Peterborough United<\/p>\n<p>12:59, 03 Jun 2025Updated 13:00, 03 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_JS365929421.jpg\" alt=\"Kwame Poku last left Peterborough United\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Kwame Poku<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Peterborough United owner Darragh MacAnthony has told Kwame Poku to \u2018listen to common sense\u2019 and sign for an unnamed Championship club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-city-fc\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Birmingham CityLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City<\/a> are chasing Poku\u2019s signature but there is plenty of competition for the in-demand winger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Poku is out of contract but he won\u2019t turn 24 until August, meaning <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/kwame-poku-transfer-birmingham-city-31657546\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Blues would have to agree a fee with Peterborough to avoid the lottery of a tribunal.Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Blues would have to agree a fee with Peterborough to avoid the lottery of a tribunal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">MacAnthony would rather Poku stay in England because it would mean a bigger transfer fee for Peterborough and wants the Ghana international to move to the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Speaking on his podcast, The Hard Truth, MacAnthony said: \u201cWe know Kwame has been offered an absolute blockbuster move to a top, top club in England. I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s thinking or what he\u2019s waiting for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cHis agent is a big agent who represents Man United players. He\u2019d be mad not to go to the club because I think they\u2019ll be in the Premier League and he\u2019ll be their best player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cI think he\u2019ll rip it up in the Championship. Unless a Premier League club has come in, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cObviously if he ***** us and goes to Europe, I\u2019d be furious, because I know he\u2019ll earn more and be in the Premier League in a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cI think a player like him disappears in Europe. If he goes to Europe, he disappears. That\u2019s his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWhereas at his age, if he goes to where I think he should go\u2026 it\u2019s not just about us getting paid. I plucked him at 19, nobody wanted him. We went out and paid big money for him. He\u2019d had a horrendous year the year before, that\u2019s why his value dropped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe took a chance and developed him. If he listens to common sense \u2013 and I hope his agent talks common sense because it\u2019s about him and not his agent \u2013 the best club for him is the one I know that\u2019s in for him because he\u2019ll be their stand-out player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cAnd that club, we will talk to them if he does sign for them and I think common sense will meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Poku would be a success at Blues? Have your say <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/birmingham-city-transfer-poku-macanthony-31778164#comments-wrapper\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"HERELink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City are in the mix to sign Kwame Poku from Peterborough United 12:59, 03 Jun 2025Updated 13:00,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,42707,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-fc","10":"tag-birmingham-city-fc-transfer-news","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114619527012450079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}