club’s official channel on X, external<\/a>: “I know the manager – I used to work with him when I was younger, so one phone call from him was all I needed.<\/p>\n“It didn’t take much to persuade me but we had a good relationship when I was young at Celtic.<\/p>\n
“You could see from there how he would take to becoming a manager and he’s come a long way. He’s a top coach. I already knew that.”<\/p>\n
Roberts appeared to have the world at his feet when he left Fulham to join Manchester City’s academy.<\/p>\n
However, he was unable to make a breakthrough there and spent several seasons on loan at Celtic, Girona, Norwich City, Middlesbrough, Derby County and Troyes before finally establishing himself at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n
Roberts added: “I think physically and mentally I’m in a good place. Some of the demons I had with injuries when I was younger, I can manage that in an easier way.<\/p>\n
“He [Davies] explained there was a creative role. I want to get on the ball and make things happen. I’ll be doing what I can to bring that every week.<\/p>\n
“I’m striving to get to the top. I did it last season and did it the hard way. I’m here to help Birmingham.<\/p>\n
“It’s another city that lives and dies by its football. That’s nothing new to me. I know what it’s like to play for big clubs and Birmingham are going in the right direction. It would be an honour to help.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Roberts said one phone call from Birmingham City boss Chris Davies was all he needed to sign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-393651","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\/115138485486091088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393651","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=393651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}