{"id":436883,"date":"2025-09-19T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/436883\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:18:11","slug":"seen-glimpses-blackpool-boss-pleased-with-birmingham-loanee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/436883\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen Glimpses &#8211; Blackpool Boss Pleased With Birmingham Loanee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Mark Thompson\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">Blackpool boss Steve Bruce feels that <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/birmingham-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City<\/a> loanee Emil Hansson could have walked away with two goals and the Man of the Match award against Barrow and feels that the Norway-born attacker has shown glimpses of his quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blues signed the former Sweden and Norway youth international last summer from Dutch outfit Heracles on a \u00a31.5m deal, tying him on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, his season in <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/league-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League One<\/a> did not go according to plan, as he played a bit-part role due to niggling injury issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hansson played about 1,100 minutes and the Birmingham-based outfit loaned him out following their promotion to the <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>League One side Blackpool loaned him in during the summer, but he is not a bang-on starter for the Seasiders at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Blackpool_Steve_Bruce2_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, Blackpool beat Barrow 5-0 in the EFL Trophy, and Hansson played 64 minutes of it, without contributing to any goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bruce, though, stressed that the Birmingham winger could have walked away with the Man of the Match award and a couple of goals to his name.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr> Team Year Points <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Birmingham City (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2024\u201325<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Wolverhampton Wanderers (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2013\u201314<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Charlton Athletic (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2011\u201312<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Plymouth Argyle (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2022\u201323<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">Sheffield United (C)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">2016\u201317<\/td>\n<td style=\"border:2px solid #ddd; padding:12px; background-color:#fec368;\">100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p> Top five most points total in League One;<br \/>(C) Champions <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although it did not quite happen, the Blackpool boss is clear that the 27-year-old has shown glimpses of his attacking quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmil could have scored two [goals] again, too as well\u201d, the 64-year-old <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpoolfc.co.uk\/videos\/13399a5e-377f-47b8-a3f7-be5b2dce6533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Tangerine TV (2:43)<\/a> when he was asked about his side\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Birmingham_Chris_Davies5_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he could have been the one coming away with the Man of the Match, but it did not quite happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have seen glimpses of him, too. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, all in all, pleased with the performance, pleased with the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bruce lauded the Blues loanee earlier this season <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/02\/cause-opposition-problems-blackpool-boss-talks-up-birmingham-city-loan-star\/690016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for his ability to cause problems for defenders<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hansson will look to impress the Blackpool boss further with his performances by contributing to goals for the League One side.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old wide attacker will return to St. Andrew\u2019s next summer, when his loan expires at Bloomfield Road, unless Blackpool negotiate a deal to keep him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Thompson\/Getty Images \u00a0 Blackpool boss Steve Bruce feels that Birmingham City loanee Emil Hansson could have walked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-436883","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\/115232814672950355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436883","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=436883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}