Birmingham boss admits landing target is ‘unlikely’ but club continue to eye forward additions
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Birmingham City manager Chris Davies has admitted the club are “unlikely” to get a deal across the line for Brighton winger Ibrahim Osman.
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The 21-year-old enjoyed a successful loan spell at St Andrews in the second half of last season. Despite Birmingham’s efforts, the Ghanaian is unlikely to return this summer.
“I think, based on how well he’s done back there with Brighton, it’s not something that I’m feeling is too likely,” Davies told BBC Radio WM.
“I’m a big fan of the player. I thought he did so well for us with his speed and power and his attitude, but he’s gone back there and what I can pick up is that they’ve liked the look of him.
“They’ve got the Conference League this season as well, so whether he eventually leaves is looking doubtful.
“Obviously we wish him the very best. But we’ll have to make sure that we have lots of targets in the next few weeks that we can bring in to boost us in that area.”
Birmingham kick off the new campaign against Swansea City in the Carabao Cup on Saturday. They will then travel to Sheffield United for the start of the Championship, and are still hoping to complete more transfers before then.
“There will be more ins and outs,” continued Davies. “My position on it, in all the windows is just to come out stronger than we went in. We’ve got work to do.
“I think you also judge it by the last two seasons, in the sense that we had a lot of players in by this point and there’s been a lot fewer now. But it is slow across the board.
“I think that means there will be a lot of activity within all the clubs in the next four weeks.
“We do want to make sure we’ve got multiple threats to score goals home and away. So we are looking in that area to see if we can bring in quality.”