{"id":92613,"date":"2025-05-11T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T11:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92613\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T11:31:17","slug":"tom-fellows-shows-birmingham-city-problem-knighthead-want-to-sort-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92613\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Fellows shows Birmingham City problem Knighthead want to sort out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Fellows has enjoyed a sensational season with West Bromwich Albion and could seal a big money transfer this summer\"TomTom Fellows of West Bromwich Albion<\/p>\n

Birmingham City can start playing catch up now that their Category One academy status has been restored.<\/p>\n

Blues<\/a> confirmed on Tuesday that the Professional Game Academy Audit Company (PGAAC) has deemed their facilities and set-up up to Category One standard, three years after their licence was stripped.<\/p>\n

Knighthead set out their intention to regain Category One status early in their tenure to keep Birmingham’s<\/a> best talent in Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Blues have produced Jude Bellingham,<\/a> Jobe Bellingham, Jordan James and George Hall in the past decade, hundreds of talented players have slipped the net.<\/p>\n

The Birmingham-born players who escaped Blues\u2019 net are all representing Category One clubs locally \u2013 Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers.<\/p>\n

A great example of that is Tom Fellows,<\/a> whose name is never far away from the lips of Blues\u2019 supporters.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old winger has become a Championship mainstay for West Bromwich Albion in the past two years and made 14 assists last season \u2013 more than any other player in the second tier.<\/p>\n

Fellows has recently earned England under-21s call-ups and Premier League outfit Everton have shown interest in signing him.<\/p>\n

Born in Solihull<\/a> to a Blues-supporting family, Fellows grew up in Longbridge \u2013 a short distance from Wast Hills. Fellows should have found his way into the club\u2019s academy.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sports last year, Fellows joked: \u201cMy dad would only go when he got free tickets so it wouldn\u2019t be very often! He wouldn\u2019t pay!<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s followed Blues a lot in the Championship and he always tells me the Championship is the best league in the world because it\u2019s so unpredictable.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s news means Blues can start to hoover up the city\u2019s talent once again and create their own assets.<\/p>\n

Not every player will become a Tom Fellows, even fewer will become a Jude Bellingham, but a steady flow of talent off the production line will prop up the first team on its upward trajectory and occasionally bring in some money.<\/p>\n

And in this age of Profit and Sustainability, the sales of homegrown players \u2013 those who cost nothing on the balance sheets \u2013 are the most profitable for clubs.<\/p>\n

Do Blues need to prioritise promoting youth to first team level? Have your say HERE<\/a>\"\"Birmingham City Champions 2024\/25 <\/p>\n

RECORD-BREAKING Birmingham City are back in the Championship.<\/p>\n

Chris Davies’ side passed the 100-point mark on their way to taking the League One title this season.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

And this Birmingham Mail promotion special<\/a> charts the brilliant Blues’ path to glory, with match-by-match analysis, reaction, comment, brilliant celebration pictures and a Champions poster in the middle pages.<\/p>\n

Buy now<\/a> and have it delivered directly to your door. Alternatively you can purchase in most supermarkets, high street retailers and independent newsagents in Birmingham <\/strong>from May 9, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Fellows has enjoyed a sensational season with West Bromwich Albion and could seal a big money transfer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,393,4884,8159,43760,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-92613","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-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-knighthead-capital-management","14":"tag-tom-fellows","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114488979538236975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92613","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=92613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}