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<\/p>\nBirmingham City have become the latest Championship club to release their retained list following the end of the 2025\/26 season<\/p>\n
17:11, 15 May 2026Updated 18:30, 15 May 2026<\/p>\n
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Jonathan Panzo in action for Birmingham City<\/p>\n
Birmingham City have released defender Jonathan Panzo<\/a> at the end of his contract, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n Panzo joined Blues<\/a> on a six-month contract from Portuguese side Rio Ave in January in the hope of securing a longer deal at St Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park<\/a> but he departs after nine appearances.<\/p>\n Blues have also confirmed that Tommy Doyle, James Beadle, Jhon Solis<\/a> and Ibrahim Osman have returned to their parent clubs following respective loan spells.<\/p>\n FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK!<\/strong> All the latest Blues news on Birmingham Live\u2019s Birmingham City FC Facebook page<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Blues boss Chris Davies<\/a> is keen to see Solis and Osman return to Blues on permanent deals.<\/p>\n Blues have offered a new deal to third choice goalkeeper Bradley Mayo who has been a presence in the first team squad over the past two seasons without playing a fixture. Fellow rookie goalkeeper Will O\u2019Sullivan has also been offered a new deal.<\/p>\n Thirteen youngsters have been released by Blues following the end of their contracts.<\/p>\n Yusuf Ahmed, Godfred Boakye, Trae Briscoe, O\u2019Shea Ellis, Cameron Eubank, Tommy Fogarty, Daniel Isichei, Cody Pennington, Frank Tattum, Szymon Terenowicz, Zachary Willis, Ben Wodskou and George Wynne will all officially depart Blues when their deals expire at the end of June.<\/p>\n Isichei and Wynne were named on the bench for the first team at points last season without making their Blues debuts.<\/p>\n Blues have taken up their 12-month options on Briar Bateman, Billy Burrell, Caleb Sanders, Alezandro Da Silva and Tyrese Warmington to extend their contracts until 2027.<\/p>\n Get the latest Blues headlines sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n BirminghamLive has its very own Birmingham City<\/a> WhatsApp community to deliver the latest headlines straight to your phone. Just click this link<\/a> to receive daily Blues content and breaking news. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. Click on the name at the top of your screen while in WhatsApp and click ‘Exit Group’. Read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City have become the latest Championship club to release their retained list following the end of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,42707,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-962678","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-birmingham-city-fc-transfer-news","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116581466647765535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962678","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=962678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}