{"id":230512,"date":"2025-07-01T23:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230512\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:19:11","slug":"birmingham-sign-euro-under-21-winning-keeper-beadle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230512\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham sign Euro Under-21 winning keeper Beadle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City have signed England Under-21s goalkeeper James Beadle on a season-long loan from Premier League club Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Beadle, 20, played in all six games at this summer&#8217;s Uefa European Under-21 Championship in Slovakia as England retained the title they won in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He becomes Blues&#8217; first signing since they won promotion back to the Championship at the first attempt, breaking records along the way as League One champions.<\/p>\n<p>Beadle has spent the past 18 months at Championship side Sheffield Wednesday, making 57 appearances across two separate loan spells with the Owls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to take that next step up and play at the top end of the table,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcfc.com\/pages\/en\/media-article\/beadle-relishing-blues-challenge-next-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told the club website.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">told the club website.<\/a> &#8220;Now I&#8217;ve had experiences in the Championship, I really feel like this year I can kick on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751411951_751_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City have signed England Under-21s goalkeeper James Beadle on a season-long loan from Premier League club Brighton.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,1169,748,393,4884,81071,101,21069,89015,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-230512","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","10":"tag-brighton","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-james-beadle","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-sheffield-wednesday","17":"tag-uefa-european-under-21-championship","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114780541061026625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230512","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=230512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}