Birmingham have re-opened talks with midfielder Sebastian Larsson over a new contract. The Swedish international has been trying to agree a new deal at the club for over two years so it will be a relief to finally secure his services. His current deal will run out next summer, which will mean that he can talk to interested parties in January and possibly sign a pre-contract...

Birmingham City acting chairman Peter Pannu has moved quickly to deny a rift between himself and Alex McLeish. McLeish is yet to sign a new deal at St Andrews and there had been claims of a fall-out after Pannu was quoted as saying McLeish was asking for “a very large amount of money which I was not prepared to meet” and that he was “no Jose Mourinho”. He...

Alex McLeish’s future at Birmingham has been thrown into doubt by stalled contract talks. Birmingham vice-chairman Peter Pannu has claimed that McLeish is asking for too much money in his new contact. McLeish’s contract talks have been going on for a number of weeks and worryingly for Blues fans they don’t look any closer to being resolved. “I...

Marcus Bent has joined Wolves on loan from Birmingham City until January. Bent has fallen down the pecking order at St Andrews after the arrivals of Nikola Zigic and Matt Derbyshire. “Marcus is an experienced striker who has played plenty of Premier League football and scored goals,” said Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey. “People still talk about whether...

Blues had this game taken away from them as Owen Coyle’s hoofer’s and chasers pillaged a point aided and abetted by Ref Friend (to whom?). Match of the day pundit Martin Keown tried to suggest that Bolton tried to play football and to illustrate his point showed them passing the ball 5 times after the kick off. I am willing to bet they would be hard pressed to find...

Birmingham hope to complete the double signing of Armand Traore and Martin Jiranek. We have already signed Ben Foster, Nikola Zigic, Enric Valles and Matt Derbyshire to his squad so far this summer, but have missed out on Moussa Dembele and Charles N’Zogbia over the last two weeks. “We are trying our best to bring people in to improve the quality of the squad,”...

Foster         (6) Badly positioned for the fee-kick equaliser Carr        (6) Getting back to his better self Johnson     (6) Naive against a difficult opponent and crap ref. Dann        (7) Looks assured and nullified Elmander. Ridgewell     (7) Good game becoming consistently good. Larsson     (7) Hard woring and got injured. Hope it’s...

Matt Derbyshire Matt Derbyshire proved to be the difference in this televised Carling Cup ties as little Rochdale embarrassed Blues though much of this rain swept contest. Whenever a Manager of a senior club trots out the old adage about players being given the opportunity to show why they should be in the team you can guarantee the players don’t. Matt Derbyshire...

Wigan have accepted an offer from Birmingham for Charles N’Zogbia. There seems to have been a lot of progress made on the deal since Thursday after Wigan claimed that the offer at that time was lower than our original bid. Since then it appears as if we have gone back in with a bid of over £8million for the winger, which has been accepted. A statement on Wigan’s...

BBC Football pundit Mark Lawrenson has predicted that Birmingham City will lose to Bolton Wanderers on Sunday. He told BBC Sport Online: “You can see that Owen Coyle is slowly trying to change the way Bolton play, injecting a little more guile into the team. That said, he has recognised that Kevin Davies and Johan Elmander can cause teams all sorts of problems if...