Birmingham City transfer update as business slows down following nine new faces
More preparations for Blues.
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00:00 Charlie, on Birmingham City, obviously we've spoke throughout the summer, they've been incredibly busy after the takeover and with transfer business.
00:07 It was all looking good and now they are sort of preparing for the new season.
00:11 You know, ahead of a lot of other clubs with these new names coming in.
00:14 What's it looking like on the transfer front? Is it sort of slowing down now and just focusing on getting things right and hitting the ground running?
00:21 Yeah, having signed Lee Buchanan that left back the spot that really needed to be improved for squad depth purposes.
00:27 I think there might be the odd deal here and there, maybe another centre forward on loan, but nine transfers, maybe actually ten if I'm counting wrong, including Kevin Long.
00:36 That's very impressive. It's a proper squad overhaul.
00:39 One player that a lot of fans wanted to come back after a loan spell, Austin Trustee from Arsenal.
00:46 He's been playing in the US, of course his home country, during pre-season and he's picked up kind of the interest of Sheffield United in the Premier League.
00:54 Obviously, Blues can't compete with a Premier League side and a £5 million deal has reportedly been agreed with the Blades to sign Trustee.
01:03 So, unfortunately, he won't be heading back to St Andrews unless something drastically changes in the next few days.
01:09 That's disappointing, but to be honest, that wasn't really an expectation anyway.
01:13 Dion Sanderson, I think, was the main one. He's now the club's captain. That's been announced.
01:18 So, that's a huge progression there for him and very excited to see how he'll do at the centre of defence.
01:23 But a very successful pre-season really, apart from the 3-2 defeat to Peterborough, beat Cheltenham 3-2, beat Northampton 1-0,
01:32 Cartagena 2-1 win. So, lots of confidence and the new players betting in well.