{"id":315019,"date":"2025-08-03T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315019\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:49:20","slug":"championship-club-try-to-hijack-chuba-akpoms-move-to-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315019\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship club try to hijack Chuba Akpom’s move to rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middlesbrough have entered the race to sign Chuba Akpom, talkSPORT understands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Championship side are attempting to hijack Birmingham’s deal for the striker.<\/p>\n

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Middlesbrough are attempting to hijack Birmingham’s move for AkpomCredit: Getty\"AFC<\/a><\/p>\n

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Birmingham have agreed a loan deal with Ajax for the strikerCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Akpom is expected to leave Ajax after he was reportedly banished from first-team training<\/a> earlier this summer.<\/p>\n

It followed a loan spell at French side Lille during the second half of last season.<\/p>\n

Birmingham have already agreed a season-long loan deal with Ajax for Akpom.<\/p>\n

Their deal includes an obligation to buy the 29-year-old if they are promoted to the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Boro have not yet reached an agreement with Ajax but have tabled an offer.<\/p>\n

It is now the player’s decision as to which club he joins ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n

Newly-promoted Birmingham have already spent over \u00a39million on 10 new signings.<\/p>\n

Akpom previously spent three years with Boro prior to moving to the Netherlands in 2023.<\/p>\n

During that time, he scored 34 goals in 82 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n

The former England under-21 international also won the Championship golden boot during the 2022\/23 campaign.<\/p>\n

\"COVENTRY,<\/a><\/p>\n

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Akpom could make a return to Boro two years after leaving the clubCredit: Getty\"COVENTRY,<\/a><\/p>\n

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The 29-year-old won the Championship golden boot during his final season at BoroCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

A return to the Riverside Stadium would see Akpom become Rob Edwards’ third signing of the summer.<\/p>\n

The new Boro boss told BBC Radio Tees this week: “We’ve got to make the supporters believe again.<\/p>\n

“If we’re all driving this thing together, it helps, but I know this is on us. We need to show a level of performance and win enough games to get their backing.<\/p>\n

“I want us to be aggressive, attack quickly, have a right go, leave it all out there.<\/p>\n

“That is the message we are getting across to the lads every day. But that’s all I’ve ever wanted from any of my teams.”<\/p>\n

Defender Alfie Jones has signed from Hull along with midfielder Abdoulaye Kante, who arrived from French side Troyes.<\/p>\n

Birmingham City set for \u00a33billion stadium upgrade as owner and Tom Brady make dream a reality<\/p>\n

Boro begin the new campaign at home to Swansea on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Their first meeting with Birmingham this term will take place at the Riverside in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough have entered the race to sign Chuba Akpom, talkSPORT understands. The Championship side are attempting to hijack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,748,9030,114762,393,4884,2923,100,2357,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-315019","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-britain","11":"tag-championship","12":"tag-chuba-akpom","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-middlesbrough","16":"tag-transfer-news","17":"tag-transfers","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315019","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=315019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}