Cobi Maddox

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
2 Oct 2027
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Marked for Cobi Maddox

26 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad25 Jan 2027

The knee: Cobi Maddox out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Birmingham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

Demarai Gray keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Birmingham may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Liam Millar was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market25 Jan 2027

KV Kortrijk come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Birmingham did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Birmingham

Ibrahim Osman was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Christoph Klarer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

Birmingham rebuffed over Bobby Thomas

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Coventry City have kept their man, and Birmingham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces25 Jan 2027

The crowd has taken to Ibrahim Osman

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match23 Jan 2027

August Priske sends Birmingham past Wrexham

It finished 2‑0, and it was August Priske’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Birmingham.

In brief

Back issues
25 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Carlos Vicente runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Jan 2027

The knee: Cobi Maddox out for 22 days

22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Birmingham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market18 Jan 2027

Luis Vázquez puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Birmingham, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market18 Jan 2027

Hull City come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Birmingham did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market18 Jan 2027

Kanya Fujimoto has said yes to Bristol Rovers

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Birmingham have lost him in all but the paperwork.

The dugout18 Jan 2027

Ethan Laird: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Birmingham have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Ibrahim Osman in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Birmingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market18 Jan 2027

Frank Tattum moves on

AFC Wimbledon pay $500.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Birmingham rebuffed over Tom Davies

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sheffield United have kept their man, and Birmingham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

24 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Jan 2027

The knee: Cobi Maddox out for 30 days

30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Birmingham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match9 Jan 2027

Birmingham run riot against Bristol City

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Ibrahim Osman scores twice — 9.41

Two goals and a mark of 9.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market11 Jan 2027

Terms done: Alex Cochrane is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Chesterfield waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Birmingham is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

No sign of nerves from Rio Ngumoha at 18 — 8.01

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rio Ngumoha did not need any: 8.01, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market11 Jan 2027

Ramón Villalba hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Birmingham can pretend not to have heard.

Market11 Jan 2027

Birmingham say no — this time

The offer from Sturm Graz for Marvin Ducksch was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad11 Jan 2027

August Priske signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” August Priske commits to Birmingham for another 5 years.

Squad11 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Birmingham

Luis Vázquez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief