{"id":402817,"date":"2025-09-06T14:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402817\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T14:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:09:16","slug":"birmingham-city-handed-big-transfer-verdict-but-pundit-questions-rival-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402817\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City handed &#8216;big&#8217; transfer verdict but pundit questions rival decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Birmingham City news from BirminghamLive brings you what has been said about one of the deals that Blues pulled off this summer<\/p>\n<p>13:29, 06 Sep 2025Updated 13:36, 06 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_GettyImages-1488444647.jpg\" alt=\"Lee Hendrie\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Lee Hendrie(Image: Photo by Pete Norton\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sky Sports pundit Lee Hendrie says he was &#8220;mightily surprised&#8221; that Sheffield United sanctioned Jack Robinson&#8217;s departure to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-city-fc\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City<\/a> but insisted it was a great deal for Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/jack-robinson-aligns-knighthead-after-32400055\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Robinson signed for Blues on deadline day<\/a> and arrives bringing a wealth of experience having been a key performer as the Blades reached the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/birmingham-city-transfer-news-live-32366885\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">play-off final in the Championship last term.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The centre-back left Bramall Lane at a time when United have endured a shocking start to the season and his move to the West Midlands has done little to ease concerns about the club&#8217;s direction of travel under Ruben Selles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But their loss has been Birmingham&#8217;s gain according to Hendrie who says they have got the better end of the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m mightily surprised, to be honest, particularly with the situation they\u2019re in this season,\u201d Hendrie told Football League World.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cA poor start from them, defensively looked I think vulnerable from day duck, really, and him being experienced I think this is an absolutely massive signing for Blues, I really do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI think they\u2019ve got such a big squad of players and not just players that are making up numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI think Jack Robinson brings real experience, it&#8217;s a very good signing for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cBig coup for Blues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Was Robinson a coup for the Blues? 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You can subscribe to the YouTube channel here, while you can access the podcast on Spotify <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7i6yWhYxM6D2zuxvZdC8t4#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20the%20home%20of,occasional%20special%20guests%20and%20features.\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and via Apple <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=76202X1531042&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fpodcast%2Fkeep-right-on-a-birmingham-city-podcast%2Fid1707571179&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.birminghammail.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Ffootball-news%2Fbirmingham-city-jay-stansfield-injury-32378869\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest Birmingham City news from BirminghamLive brings you what has been said about one of the deals that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,42707,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-402817","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-birmingham-city-fc-transfer-news","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115157753395044796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402817","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=402817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}