{"id":782411,"date":"2026-02-22T22:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/782411\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:32:17","slug":"birmingham-city-new-boy-dubbed-colossal-as-impact-praised-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/782411\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City New Boy Dubbed &#8216;Colossal&#8217; As Impact Praised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> George Wood\/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;\">Commentator Ian Danter believes <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/birmingham-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham City<\/a> have added real steel in midfield through the signing of Jhon Solis in the winter transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham did impressive business in the winter window, with a notable arrival that of winger Carlos Vicente, who swapped La Liga football with Alaves for the <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Championship<\/a> with Blues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vicente was <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2026\/01\/28\/birmingham-city-hand-winger-lucrative-contract-as-salary-emerges\/704553\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handed a substantial salary rise to make the move<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Solis swapped another La Liga side, Girona, for Birmingham, on a loan deal and stood out in Blues\u2019 recent FA Cup loss against <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/leeds-united\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though Solis failed to end up on the winning side, his team came close to a win and dragged the game to penalties, where they were unlucky to lose 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Danter feels that the new boy proved to be \u2018colossal\u2019 for the home team, and quelled the fears of the Birmingham City fans following a long-term injury to one of their key midfielders, Seung-ho-Paik, in the match against West Brom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paik\u2019s partnership with Tomoki Iwata was <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/23\/birmingham-city-duo-might-be-best-in-championship-feels-ex-efl-star\/692259\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lauded as potentially the best in the Championship earlier this season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Birmingham_Jhon_Solis_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The commentator believes that Solis has now added real steel when it comes to protecting Birmingham\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question on who he thinks is going to be the fan favourite among the new signings, Danter said on <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/podfollow.com\/what-the-efl\/episode\/036ace53608ca5d42353955054e1c77245aa125b\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">What The EFL<\/a> (15.26): \u201cThe one that caught my eye was Jhon Solis in defensive midfield. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was colossal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know how good Christoph Klarer is, he got the Man of the Match award and he was brilliant, typically in the defensive line.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nGame<br \/>\nCompetition<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Millwall (A)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Championship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Middlesbrough (H)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Championship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Charlton Athletic (A)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Championship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Birmingham City\u2019s next three games<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I thought Solis was really solid in that midfield pivot because [Seung-ho] Paik is injured and he has been very good in that position.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Solis coming in has quelled any fears that Birmingham fans might have had that we would suddenly have soft underbelly in front of the back four.\u201d<\/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_Chris_Davies6_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Solis completed the full 90 minutes on Saturday as Birmingham grabbed a precious 2-1 win away at an in-form Norwich City side in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vicente scored Blues\u2019 opener, with Marvin Ducksch getting a second for the visitors to Carrow Road.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chris Davies made good use of his new signings in the clash, with Kai Wagner, Jonathan Panzo, Solis, Vicente and August Priske all starting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Wood\/Getty Images \u00a0 Commentator Ian Danter believes Birmingham City have added real steel in midfield through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,228155,208292,16,15],"class_list":["post-782411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-ian-danter","tag-jhon-solis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116116661734623305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782411","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=782411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}