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John Murtough starts at Birmingham on Monday.
At United, Mainoo came through on his watch. Antony arrived for £82m.
He inherits a style nobody wrote down and a squad already at a 25-man limit.
Where should he start?
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#BCFC
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Blues lost 1-0 at Cardiff yesterday. The piece below went out before kick-off and the match made its point for it.
Birmingham have got much better at going quick and direct.
What they can't yet do is control a game through the middle when it calls for it.
🧵
#BCFC
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🚨🚨YAMIROU OUOROU 🇧🇯 (20 ans) est DOUBLE PASSEUR DÉCISIF avec l’Ac Horsens 🇩🇰en championnat aujourd’hui 😌🎯🎯
Ses chiffres en club cette saison :
— 15 matchs
— 3 buts
— 3 passes décisives
Blues should do this.
Jude, Gray, Redmond, Butland, Harding, Mitch Hancox etc.
#BCFC
👀 Heb jij ze al gespot?
🏘️ Onze campagne 'Opgeleid in Noord-Holland' is zichtbaar in het straatbeeld. Een ode aan de regio waar talenten zich ontwikkelen, dromen najagen en doorgroeien naar AZ 1.
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#AZAlkmaar #NoordHolland #TheFutureIsOurs
After Kodai Sano, Diop was the second player I wrote about. Then on loan at Cercle Brugge.
I thought Blues might have a chance of signing him....
Gone back to Monaco and is thriving 🔥.
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When I first started writing about football/data last year, Ghedjemis was in Serie B with Frosinone.
Now they're in 6th in Serie A and Ghedjemis went to the World Cup for Algeria.
There's talent everywhere.
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☄️ | Anas Haj Mohamed, man in vorm bij Beerschot, trapt deze bal prachtig binnen. 🐀⚡️
No idea how to watch the this game, but Michut and Yegoian are playing against each other in Fortuna Sittard vs Excelsior.
2 players I think could improve Blues. Michut is out of contract in the summer. ex-Sunderland, PSG and French u20s player. Seems a bit of a "maverick"
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FC Seoul have secured their first K League 1 crown in a decade, breaking the nine-year duopoly of the two Hyundai powerhouses.
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Blues lost 1-0 at Cardiff yesterday. The piece below went out before kick-off and the match made its point for it.
Birmingham have got much better at going quick and direct.
What they can't yet do is control a game through the middle when it calls for it.
🧵
#BCFC
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The academy is where his record is strongest. Mainoo went from nine-year-old to first-team starter on his watch.
Blues' first team trains at EPIC and the academy at Kings Norton. With Mike Rigg gone, the link between the two needs an owner.
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January is Murtough's first window.
The scorecard points to a central player who receives in front of the box and plays the ball into it.
Blues are at the 25-man limit, so exits come first.
Full piece:
xbirmingham.substack.com/p/b…
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Shamrock Rovers secure sixth League title in seven years
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