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Wed 22 October 2025 12:48, UK <\/p>\n
Birmingham City manager Chris Davies is under growing pressure from the club\u2019s owners, sources have told Football Insider.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Blues currently sit 12th in the Championship after 11 games of the season, and are already 10 points adrift of table-toppers Coventry City<\/a>.<\/p>\n Davies<\/a>\u2018 side picked up their first win in five games on Tuesday (21 October) evening, beating Preston North End 1-0.<\/p>\n However, Birmingham\u2019s<\/a> hugely ambitious US owners are still disappointed with the club\u2019s start to the campaign after a summer of heavy investment, and are beginning to become impatient.<\/p>\n Sources say that the period between now and the next international break is critical for Davies in terms of keeping his Birmingham job.<\/p>\n The newly promoted side face Bristol City, Portsmouth, Millwall<\/a> and Middlesbrough before the two-week hiatus in the middle of November.<\/p>\n Last month,\u00a0Football Insider<\/strong>\u00a0exclusively revealed that\u00a0Birmingham owner Tom Wagner had jetted into the UK to watch the side with Davies under pressure<\/a>.<\/p>\n MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n Wagner and the rest of the club\u2019s hierarchy attended draws against Sheffield Wednesday and Wrexham.<\/p>\n Birmingham owners want top two finish<\/p>\n On Sunday (19 October), Football Inside<\/strong>r exclusively revealed that Wagner has told the Birmingham players that he wants a top-two finish<\/a> in the Championship this season.<\/p>\n Sources say that the Blues owner visited the dressing room after\u00a0the game against Wrexham and made it clear to the squad that they are expected to achieve automatic promotion.<\/p>\n Over the summer,\u00a0Birmingham signed the likes of Demari Gray<\/a>, Kyogo Furuhashi, and Tommy Doyle.<\/p>\n The hierarchy at the club believes that the heavy investment over the past two summers has given Davies a side that can achieve promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n If he cannot convince the owners that he is the right man for the job over the next two weeks, then he risks being dismissed.<\/p>\n For more Birmingham and exclusive news, follow us on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or join our brand new\u00a0WhatsApp Channel<\/a>\u00a0for instant updates to be sent straight to your phone.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Getty Wed 22 October 2025 12:48, UK Birmingham City manager Chris Davies is under growing pressure from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,748,29405,393,4884,168605,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-519535","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","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chris-davies","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-sofascore","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115417712825643660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519535","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=519535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Birmingham](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chris-Davies-1024x576.jpg\")
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