{"id":700877,"date":"2026-01-16T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700877\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:18:13","slug":"bit-50-50-star-coy-on-birmingham-city-move-but-hint-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700877\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bit 50\/50&#8217; &#8211; Star Coy On Birmingham City Move But Hint Given"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Dan Mullan\/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;\">Djurgardens attacker August Priske has refused to be drawn into answering questions about his future, amid <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/birmingham-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City<\/a> putting in a big push to take him to St Andrew\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old\u00a0 has emerged as a transfer target for Blues as they look to add to their firepower for the business end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Priske is fully expected to move on from Djurgardens this month and <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2026\/01\/15\/birmingham-city-in-drivers-seat-to-beat-competition-for-21-year-old\/703323\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier this week Birmingham were claimed to be in the driving seat on the deal<\/a>, with terms largely already agreed with the attacker.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He showed great goalscoring form last year for Djurgardens in the Swedish league, scoring 18 goals in 27 matches and also played European football for them in the Conference League.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lille and Besiktas have shown interest, however Birmingham have looked to have the edge.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The picture could well have been complicated though <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2026\/01\/16\/also-in-the-picture-birmingham-city-face-further-complications-in-swoop-for-attacker\/703442\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by the entry into the race of one side from Serie A and another from the Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Birmingham_Jay_Stansfield2_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Priske was missing from Djurgardens training on Friday, but did not want to be drawn into answering questions on a possible move to St Andrew\u2019s this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to say anything. No comment\u201d, Priske told Swedish outlet <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/fotbolldirekt.se\/allsvenskan\/forvaningen-efter-flyttryktena-sa-att-jag-inte-skulle-gora-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fotbolldirekt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nLeague<\/p>\n<p>Country<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Eerste Divisie<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Netherlands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Allsvenskan<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Sweden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Danish Superliga<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Denmark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Leagues August Priske has played in<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Press officer] Olle [Arnell] told me not do any media today, so no, I won\u2019t say anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Priske absent from training though, he was asked whether that was because he had an injury or whether he was not allowed to risk picking up one before a possible move.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Birmingham_Marvin_Ducksch_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know\u2026.a bit 50\/50\u201d, Priske replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham will hope they can hold off competition for Priske and push the deal over the line in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blues boss Chris Davies <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/12\/18\/with-january-coming-up-chris-davies-clear-on-birmingham-city-focus\/701219\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was clear in late December<\/a> that he needs to add to his attacking options in this month\u2019s window.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has already seen one striker go through the door, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2026\/01\/15\/charlton-athletic-snap-up-birmingham-city-star\/703377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Lyndon Dykes departing<\/a> to Championship rivals <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/charlton-athletic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlton Athletic<\/a>, reducing his options.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham are also keen on Alaves attacker Carlos Vicente, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2026\/01\/16\/do-not-want-to-let-him-go-birmingham-city-face-battle-to-land-star\/703478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but face a battle to convince the Spanish side to sell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Mullan\/Getty Images \u00a0 Djurgardens attacker August Priske has refused to be drawn into answering questions about his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-700877","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\/115907337041131838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700877","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=700877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}