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Birmingham City manager Chris Davies during a training session in Austria on the club’s last pre-season tour<\/p>\nBirmingham City players will report back to their training base in Henley-in-Arden next weekBirmingham City manager Chris Davies during a training session in Austria on the club’s last pre-season tour<\/p>\n
Chris Davies has promised not to disappoint his Birmingham City<\/a> players with a gruelling pre-season planned for their return to the Elite Performance and Innovation Centre.<\/p>\n The League One champions will filter back to EPIC from the middle of next week for pre-season testing before Davies<\/a> leads a six-week training camp.<\/p>\n Blues have now confirmed they will take on Sevilla during their week-long trip to Portugal before returning home for domestic friendlies against Solihull<\/a> Moors, Burton Albion, Port Vale and Northampton. Another friendly, which will be held at St Andrew\u2019s @ Knighthead Park on Saturday, August 2, is still to be confirmed.<\/p>\n After some time celebrating and relaxing following an arduous 60-game season, Blues\u2019 players are putting in the work to ensure they are in shape for the start of pre-season. Ethan Laird<\/a> has spent time training in Mykonos, while Taylor Gardner-Hickman<\/a> is doing his individual work in Marbella.<\/p>\n It will only get harder when they report back to Davies who is determined to hit the ground running in the Championship.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cPre-season is a very important time for me. When I came last year pre-season was part of the season for me, I wanted to make a really strong start with the style of play, the training, everything.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got a six-and-a-half, seven week pre-season which is plenty of time to get fit. There\u2019s been plenty of rest but we\u2019ll work hard for those six or seven weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re off to Portugal and we\u2019ve got a fantastic training camp. We did the planning a few months ago for that. We\u2019ve got a game out there and lots of good sessions that will give us time to bond and start planning our vision for the season.<\/p>\n \u201cI want us to be the fittest team in the league, I always do, and I don\u2019t see any reason why we can\u2019t chase that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will be really hard training, I\u2019ll push the boys. It\u2019s never pleasant in pre-season, these days as a player you need a pre pre-season to get your body ready for it. A lot of them come back in reasonable shape anyway.<\/p>\n \u201cThey know it\u2019s going to be hard training \u2013 I won\u2019t disappoint them with that!\u201d<\/p>\n What are you hoping to see from Blues in pre-season? Send us your thoughts HERE<\/a>Get the latest Blues headlines sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n BirminghamLive has its very own Birmingham City<\/a> WhatsApp community to deliver the latest headlines straight to your phone. Just click this link<\/a> to receive daily Blues content and breaking news. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. Click on the name at the top of your screen while in WhatsApp and click ‘Exit Group’. Read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City players will report back to their training base in Henley-in-Arden next weekBirmingham City manager Chris Davies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,8372,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-194425","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-britain","11":"tag-chris-davies-football-coach","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114704481276306418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194425","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=194425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}