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Chris Davies manager of Birmingham City<\/p>\nPhil Neumann, Paik Seung-ho and Jay Stansfield missed Birmingham City’s win over Port Vale<\/p>\n
16:15, 26 Jul 2025Updated 16:20, 26 Jul 2025<\/p>\n
Chris Davies manager of Birmingham City<\/p>\n
Chris Davies has confirmed Phil Neumann and Paik Seung-ho have joined Jay Stansfield in Birmingham City\u2019s<\/a> treatment room.<\/p>\n German defender Neumann<\/a> and South Korean playmaker Paik<\/a> missed Blues\u2019 2-0 victory over Port Vale<\/a> in their penultimate pre-season match.<\/p>\n Keshi Anderson and Willum Willumsson netted the goals for Blues at Vale Park.<\/p>\n Stansfield, meanwhile, has missed Blues\u2019 last two pre-season games due to injury and is now in a race against time to be fit for the Championship curtain-raiser against Ipswich Town.<\/p>\n Addressing the absences of Neumann, Paik and Stansfield, Davies<\/a> said: \u201cThey\u2019re all not long-term. I\u2019m hoping they will be training within a week or two maximum. They are just things you pick up in pre-season.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have had a few niggles in this last week which is to be expected but none of them are long-term.\u201d<\/p>\n Debutant Eiran Cashin had to be withdrawn after 55 minutes due to a \u2018stomach issue\u2019 according to Davies but it didn\u2019t disrupt Blues\u2019 flow.<\/p>\n Davies added: \u201cWe had to monitor different players and give them different minutes. Overall, I\u2019m really happy with the work we did \u2013 clean sheet, two goals.<\/p>\n \u201cThis team [Port Vale] will be absolutely alright in League One, no doubt about it. They work hard and at home I\u2019m sure they will be a force in League One.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had five new players in the first half and you can see the boys that have been with me for a year because they are a bit quicker in the movements and know all the patterns of play, whereas the new lads are a little bit slower with that and that\u2019s normal.<\/p>\n \u201cI was pleased with it. It looked mostly how I wanted it to look, the energy and appetite was there, and players are getting fitter which is the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n What do you make of Blues’ rash of injuries? Have your say 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":"Phil Neumann, Paik Seung-ho and Jay Stansfield missed Birmingham City’s win over Port Vale 16:15, 26 Jul 2025Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,8372,393,4884,1206,109335,39844,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-294523","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-jay-stansfield","15":"tag-paik-seung-ho","16":"tag-phil-neumann","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114922236389527737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294523","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=294523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}