{"id":331418,"date":"2025-08-09T20:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331418\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:37:14","slug":"im-not-sure-birmingham-city-managers-thoughts-on-celtic-hero-kyogo-seriously-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331418\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m not sure’ – Birmingham City manager’s thoughts on Celtic hero Kyogo seriously backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kyogo Furuhashi has got his Birmingham City career properly underway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former Celtic striker ended his nightmare stint at Stade Rennais<\/a> by signing for the EFL Championship side for \u00a310m in early July.<\/p>\n

Kyogo<\/a> played some minutes in the 1-0 friendly win for the Blues over Premier League outfit Nottingham Forest last weekend.<\/p>\n

He was handed a start on Friday night for his competitive debut as his team kicked off their Championship journey against Ipswich Town.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s safe to say he proved what his manager Chris Davies was previously thinking about him to be totally wrong.<\/p>\n

\"hrisPhoto by Catherine Ivill \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesChris Davies wasn\u2019t \u2018too pleased\u2019 with Kyogo progress<\/p>\n

Sky Sports<\/a> pundits Clinton Morrison and Curtis Davies were chatting live on TV before Birmingham\u2019s 1-1 draw with Ipswich at St Andrew\u2019s.<\/p>\n

And Morrison was quick to hail the signing of Kyogo by the Blues, but Davies then pointed out that Birmingham boss Chris Davies wasn\u2019t too happy with Kyogo\u2019s early progress.<\/p>\n

Clinton Morrison: \u201cHe\u2019s a good player, you saw that at Celtic<\/a>, it didn\u2019t work out for him at Rennes, but you could see at Celtic, he was brilliant.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan City were linked to him before he went to Rennes, as a back up to Haaland, that\u2019s how much he is held in high regard.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got great movement and he can score goals, as soon as I saw Birmingham City has signed him I thought it was a brilliant signing.<\/p>\n

Curtis Davies: \u201cI couldn\u2019t agree more, it\u2019s a real statement of intent. I\u2019m not sure Chris Davies is too pleased with how quickly he\u2019s got up to speed with what he wants his team to bring to matches but I think they are going to trust in his experience of big games.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Kyogo silences boss during Birmingham debut<\/p>\n

However, Kyogo silenced any doubts that were lingering over him against Ipswich as he put in a tremendous debut performance.<\/p>\n

The Celtic hero really should have been on the scoresheet after seven minutes when he lobbed an effort over the goalkeeper and into the net.<\/p>\n

But the referee disallowed the goal as he deemed Kyogo to have fouled the Ipswich defender, when really there was very minimal contact.<\/p>\n

Kyogo was then key to Birmingham\u2019s opener early in the second period as his chipped strike hit the post and rebounded back out to Jay Stansfield, who buried the ball home.<\/p>\n

He was subbed off after 77 minutes before Ipswich snatched a 95th minute stoppage time equaliser to grab a share of the spoils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyogo Furuhashi has got his Birmingham City career properly underway. The former Celtic striker ended his nightmare stint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,10109,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-331418","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-kyogo-furuhashi","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115000734208821753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331418","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=331418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}