{"id":693648,"date":"2026-01-13T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693648\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:11:11","slug":"mjallby-suggest-abdoulie-manneh-to-birmingham-city-not-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693648\/","title":{"rendered":"Mj\u00e4llby suggest Abdoulie Manneh to Birmingham City not dead yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/bimringham-city-manneh-coventry-stoke-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we covered the latest<\/a> from Sweden about Abdoulie Manneh\u2019s move to Birmingham City collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>The local media had got in contact with Mj\u00e4llby AIF sport director\u00a0Hasse Larsson. He seemed to be entirely in the dark over what had happened:\u00a0\u201cNo, unfortunately I don\u2019t want to (say) before we have all the facts. No, I have no comments at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quickly after that, quotes from emerged from Jacob Lennartsson. He\u2019s the equivalent of CEO at the Allsvenskan club, and gave a wider idea of what\u2019s been going on at the Mj\u00e4llby side of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>To recap, reports on Monday stated Manneh was on his way for a Birmingham City medical. Given the drama the player has been through previously with Coventry City, Stoke City and Olympiacos, there was always a chance of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/fotbolldirekt.se\/silly-season\/mjallby-svarar-pa-uppgifter-om-kollapsad-affar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FotbollDirekt<\/a>, Lennartsson said:<strong> \u201c<\/strong>We can confirm that Abdoulie Manneh has been given permission to visit another club for a potential transfer.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"FD Articles - Text Links\">\u201cAt this point, we can neither confirm whether the deal will go through, nor whether it will not. As negotiations are currently underway between both the clubs, as well as between the player and the purchasing club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham City target is clearly well liked<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"FD Articles - Text Links\">What has been striking throughout the soap opera is that despite everything, the club don\u2019t sound like they\u2019ve had enough of Manneh. Fans of the Swedish side appear to feel similarly.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"FD Articles - Text Links\">Indeed, Mj\u00e4llby would be happy to keep the 21-year-old.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"FD Articles - Text Links\">\u201cManneh is a fantastic footballer,\u201d Lennartsson continued. \u201cEither he will get a new well-deserved challenge in his career at another club. Or he will continue to represent Mj\u00e4llby AIF in 2026. Which is also pleasing from several perspectives. We will come back with more information if there is anything more to communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"FD Articles - Text Links\">The precise nature of the disagreement still isn\u2019t clear. The likelihood is there\u2019s at least a problem between the player\u2019s camp and Birmingham City, and perhaps also a club-to-club issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, we covered the latest from Sweden about Abdoulie Manneh\u2019s move to Birmingham City collapsing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-693648","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\/115889142849451070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693648","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=693648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}