{"id":697768,"date":"2026-01-15T13:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697768\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:57:12","slug":"done-deal-birmingham-city-set-to-announce-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697768\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDone deal\u201d \u2013 Birmingham City set to announce signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Girona\u2019s Jhon Sol\u00eds is on the verge of completing a move to Birmingham City in the winter market.<\/p>\n<p>Three days ago, we <a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/birmingham-city-flying-player-in-for-medical-very-high-offer-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covered claims from Spain and Argentina<\/a> that Chris Davies\u2019 side had overtaken Mexico\u2019s Tigres UANL. The Blues managed that by offering better terms to sign the 21-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9sar Luis Merlo, a respect journalist in South America, reported Birmingham City\u2019s agreement to sign the player permanently.\u00a0 The Championship side showed willingness to offer between \u20ac4m and \u20ac5m.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists <a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/birmingham-city-loaning-player-for-e500k-e8m-purchase-conditional-obligation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nil Sol\u00e0 and Pipe Sierra explained<\/a> Birmingham City will sign him on a loan costing \u20ac500k. There\u2019s a conditional purchase obligation set at \u20ac8m. That becomes mandatory when he makes 11 league appearances in the second half of this season.<\/p>\n<p>Girona manager M\u00edchel has now confirmed Sol\u00eds\u2019 impending exit, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jornadaperfecta.com\/blog\/claudio-echeverri-girona-fichaje-25-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jorna Da Perfecta<\/a> have relayed his comments.<\/p>\n<p>The La Liga side face Espanyol in the league on Friday and M\u00edchel was speaking at a pre-match press conference. Girona are keen on signing Manchester City\u2019s Argentine attacking midfielder, Claudio Echeverri, in this window. Indeed, they were keen on him in the summer but he ended up at Bayer Leverkusen instead, where things did not go to plan.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer to Birmingham City is \u201cdone deal\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jhonsolis2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-570836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jhonsolis2.jpg\" alt=\"Jhon Solis\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\"  \/><\/a>Jhon Solis seen during LaLiga EA SPORTS game between teams of Sevilla FC and Girona FC at Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan (Maciej Rogowski). The midfielder will now join Birmingham City.<\/p>\n<p>Girona<a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/manchester-city-player-visited-club-met-new-teammates-on-monday-awaiting-peps-side-to-announce-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> have to release<\/a> one of their current non-EU players to make room for Echeverri, which will be done through Sol\u00eds\u2019 departure to Birmingham City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if the paperwork will arrive in time for Echeverri to play tomorrow, but Sol\u00eds\u2019 departure is a done deal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need players in midfield, and the sporting director is working on this. I\u2019m optimistic that we can count on Claudio for tomorrow\u2019s match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham City should now announce Jhon Sol\u00eds\u2019 arrival, perhaps even today if they can go through the medical tests quick enough. For Girona to confirm Echeverri, they need the Championship transfer to be finalised rapidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Girona\u2019s Jhon Sol\u00eds is on the verge of completing a move to Birmingham City in the winter market.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,748,393,34431,4884,208292,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-697768","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-england","12":"tag-girona","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-jhon-solis","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115899468687623225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697768","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=697768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}