{"id":315184,"date":"2025-08-03T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315184\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:19:10","slug":"birmingham-city-agree-deal-to-sign-29-y-o-ex-championship-star-for-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315184\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City agree deal to sign 29 y\/o ex-Championship star for Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham City<\/a> have now agreed a season-long loan move for a “fantastic” attacking player, according to Sky Sports reporter Anthony Joseph.<\/p>\n

Birmingham eyeing double signing from Rangers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Blues’ Championship<\/a> return is now less than a week away, with Chris Davies’ side hosting Ipswich Town on Friday evening, which promises to be a memorable occasion.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Birmingham are still pushing for more signings to give them the best possible chance of reaching the Premier League, with a double deal for Rangers duo Ben Davies and Kieran Dowell<\/a> being eyed up.<\/p>\n

Davies spent last season on loan at St Andrew’s, playing a big role in them winning the League One title in relentless fashion, starting 32 league matches<\/a> and winning an average of 4.1 aerial duels per game. For that reason, a permanent move to the Blues makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dowell also was on loan at St Andrew’s and could be a shrewd addition to Birmingham’s midfield, with the 27-year-old already racking up 123 appearances<\/a> in the Championship, possessing a huge amount of experience and knowing what it takes to be a success in the competition.<\/p>\n

Birmingham agree deal to sign “fantastic” striker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing on X, Joseph claimed that Birmingham have now agreed a deal with Ajax to sign striker Chuba Akpom<\/a> on a season-long loan deal.<\/p>\n

However, since this update, it has emerged that Championship rivals Middlesbrough are looking to hijack the Blues’ move for the forward<\/a>, with Akpom previously starring at the Riverside. <\/p>\n

Akpom could be a brilliant signing for Birmingham, giving Davies the extra attacking quality that is needed to be promotion contenders in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old is now an experienced striker who has played at a high level, appearing<\/a> in both the Champions League and the Europa League last season, as well as being praised by Michael Carrick<\/a> during their time together at Middlesbrough, having reached 20 league goals in a season.<\/p>\n

“It’s a terrific achievement. It’s not easy to score that many goals. He’s scored all different type of goals for us since I’ve been here. I thought his performance was fantastic. “He gets credit for his goals but his performance all round was terrific.”<\/p>\n

Akpom is also a former Golden Boot winner in the Championship<\/a>, highlighting his pedigree further, so he could prove to be a real coup for Birmingham if they can get a deal over the line in the coming days.<\/p>\n

The loan nature of the move is arguably ideal, too, and if they win back-to-back promotions, an obligation to buy could be triggered, meaning Akpom may have played a big part in that potential success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City have now agreed a season-long loan move for a “fantastic” attacking player, according to Sky Sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-315184","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\/114966217651707157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315184","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=315184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}