{"id":988900,"date":"2026-05-27T22:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/988900\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:33:18","slug":"wants-to-leave-birmingham-city-star-set-on-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/988900\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wants To Leave&#8217; &#8211; Birmingham City Star Set On Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Gareth Copley\/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;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/birmingham-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham City<\/a> star Marvin Ducksch \u2018wants to leave\u2019 Blues this summer and has been in Germany recently with his agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The German striker enjoyed a productive first season at St Andrew\u2019s, with the campaign marking his first experience away from his homeland.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He finished as the club\u2019s joint leading goalscorer after finding the net ten times in 33 appearances, although Blues ultimately missed out on promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ducksch was not entirely free from criticism either as former <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Championship<\/a> hitman Sam Parkin pointed out that he had been \u2018a bit of a passenger away from home\u2019, with the striker managing only four goals on the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But admiration for him within Germany has continued to increase, as 2. Bundesliga outfit Hertha Berlin made enquiries last month, while Augsburg have also recently shown interest in a switch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Birmingham_Marvin_Ducksch2_620_ofg.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wolfsburg, relegated, also hold an interest in bringing Ducksch back to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has been suggested that Birmingham\u2019s failure to secure promotion activated a non-promotion release clause worth around \u20ac1m, a figure that interested clubs could potentially use to their advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, according to German daily <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/sport\/fussball\/hertha-bsc-mehrere-optionen-ducksch-schaute-sich-schon-in-berlin-um-6a169cbed3089965c4659101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bild<\/a>, Ducksch \u2018wants to leave\u2019 Birmingham after just one season in English football.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nInterested club<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\" data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Hertha Berlin<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\" data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Augsburg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\" data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">AEK Athens<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\" data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Real Sociedad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Wolfsburg<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Linked with Marvin Ducksch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He attended the German Cup final in Berlin recently in the company of his agents as he assesses the options on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His release clause of \u20ac1m is currently considered to be too high for Hertha Berlin, who have their focus on free agents.<\/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>The capital club need to bring in \u20ac15m in player sales before they can even think about splashing some cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They could potentially do that <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2026\/05\/27\/liverpool-under-time-pressure-to-trigger-top-talents-clause\/714790\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by selling Liverpool target Kennet Eichhorn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Interest in Ducksch is not limited to Germany either as Real Sociedad and Greek outfit AEK Athens are monitoring him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Should Ducksch leave, Birmingham would inevitably need to revisit the market and any incoming business may attract greater scrutiny given the attention already placed on their spending, as commentator <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2026\/02\/18\/birmingham-city-didnt-splash-cash-to-finish-10th-warns-commentator\/706587\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Danter questioned whether such heavy investment was made for a tenth-place finish.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gareth Copley\/Getty Images \u00a0 Birmingham City star Marvin Ducksch \u2018wants to leave\u2019 Blues this summer and has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":988901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,118990,16,15,76964],"class_list":["post-988900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-marvin-ducksch","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wolfsburg"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116648924029643157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988900","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=988900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}