{"id":288256,"date":"2025-07-24T15:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288256\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:44:31","slug":"birmingham-give-former-derby-star-medical-ahead-of-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288256\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Give Former Derby Star Medical Ahead Of Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Cameron Smith\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/birmingham-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City<\/a> are to put former <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/derby-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derby County<\/a> defender Eiran Cashin through a medical later today as they close in on landing him from Premier League side Brighton after \u2018talks accelerated\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blues have, for a second successive summer, made a splash in the transfer market as they target back-to-back promotions, up to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An eye-catching signing has been that of former Celtic striker Kyogo Furuhashi, while Alfie May <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/07\/21\/birmingham-city-poised-to-bank-1-3m-from-exit-as-terms-thrashed-out\/688993\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moved on from St Andrew\u2019s to Huddersfield Town<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ben Davies was on loan at Birmingham last term to strengthen the defence, but despite him being expected to return, he is still at Ibrox.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now Blues are set to make a defensive signing in the shape of Cashin and, according to journalist <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CParkerTurner\/status\/1948396173976338589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Parker-Turner<\/a>, his medical is \u2018set to take place today\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An exit <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/06\/17\/brighton-ready-to-sanction-exit-for-former-derby-county-star\/685965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been on the cards for the former Derby man<\/a>, who has struggled to make an impact at Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Birmingham_Ben_Davies2_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brighton are not though cutting the cord with the defender and he will be joining Birmingham, after \u2018talks accelerated\u2019 earlier this week, on a loan deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cashin only joined Brighton from Derby in the winter transfer window earlier this year and put pen to a long term contract on the south coast.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr> Team Year Points <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Birmingham City (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2024\u201325<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Wolverhampton Wanderers (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2013\u201314<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Charlton Athletic (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2011\u201312<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Plymouth Argyle (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2022\u201323<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Sheffield United (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2016\u201317<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p> Top five most points total in League One;<br \/>(C) Champions <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now the Seagulls feel his development would be best served by a loan stint back in the <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is for now unclear whether Birmingham have negotiated an option to buy in the loan agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Had they done so with Davies\u2019 loan from <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rangers<\/a> last season then they could have easily triggered it and kept hold of him on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Derby_John_Eustace3_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cashin came through the youth set-up at Derby, but the Rams will now need to deal with coming up against him next term.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Eustace, a former Birmingham manager, kept Derby up in the Championship against the odds and will want to kick on with the Rams in the new campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Smith\/Getty Images \u00a0 Birmingham City are to put former Derby County defender Eiran Cashin through a medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114908985395658764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288256","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=288256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}