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Jack Deaman

Gossip Folks – Summer 2013 Edition Pt III

With most of Birmingham City’s transfer business being done early in the summer, the gossip pages have been relatively quiet with to the Blues. News of players going out has stopped since the sales of Nathan Redmond and Curtis Davies whilst a trickle of trialists continue to be showing what they can do at Wast Hills.

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Keep, Sell or Release – the Kids

With the end of the season nearing and with so many players out of contract I thought it would be a good idea to go through the squad and analyse who I think we should keep, who we can get away with selling and who needs to be released. This is the fifth of five installments of that analysis.

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Blues u21s Win With Last Gasp Effort

Birmingham City’s u21 side squeaked a last gasp win over their Leeds United counterparts at Wast Hills today after Eddy Gnahore tucked home trialist Courtney Cameron’s low cross with virtually the last kick of the game.

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Development Squad in Heavy Defeat to Leicester City

An inexperienced Blues u21 squad were comprehensively beaten 3-0 by their Leicester City counterparts at St Andrews today in the Professional Development League.

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Deaman and Asante Go Out On Loan

5pm today saw the end of the loan and free transfer window for this season. Deadline day saw two players leave Blues on temporary deals whilst none have come in.

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Sky Blues Come Back to Beat Blues Development Squad

The Blues Development Squad went down 2-1 to local rivals Coventry City in today’s development squad fixture after leading by an early Akwasi Asante goal.

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Give Youth a Chance

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With nine games left of the Championship season, Blues sit in fourteenth place seven points clear of the drop zone on forty-six points. Whilst relegation is still easily possible the hope would now be that Blues will be safe in the Championship for the season and can start looking to next season.

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Wounded Rams in for the Slaughter? Derby Preview

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Blues play their second home match in five days with Nigel Clough’s injury hit Derby County side visiting St Andrews today. Blues will be looking for revenge for the 3-2 defeat earlier this season at Pride Park whilst Clough will be looking for points to keep Derby out of the relegation scrap that is slowly forming.

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New Kids in for the New Year? Cardiff Preview

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The first game of 2013 for Birmingham City sees Blues welcome top-of-the-table side Cardiff City to St Andrews. Having tasted defeat on Saturday which dropped Blues to 20th in the table Lee Clark will be looking for a better performance from his side this time out.

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The Kids Are Alright

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Despite the much-needed win over Middlesbrough on Friday night I can’t help thinking that November has ended a bit of an anticlimax for Blues fans. The long-awaited trial of Carson Yeung is now even more long-awaited after a successful application for adjournment – ensuring he remains in limbo for another five months yet. Coupled with the fact Blues are seemingly no closer to a takeover despite the media posturing of Gianni Paladini and Peter Pannu and all in all November has turned out to be a bit of a damp squib.

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