Lee Buchanan

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28 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match6 Feb 2027

Chastening afternoon for Birmingham

A 0‑4 beating by Preston was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Cláudio Ramos keeps Birmingham in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market8 Feb 2027

Isaac Smith asks to leave Birmingham

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Birmingham

Luis Vázquez 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.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Demarai Gray stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Demarai Gray and Birmingham agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Words at Birmingham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ibrahim Osman is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom8 Feb 2027

Inquest at Birmingham

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Nobody could get near Ibrahim Osman

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

The chances came and went for Luis Vázquez

8 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief

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5 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad31 Aug 2026

Dael Fry damages knee ligaments — 88 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 88 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market31 Aug 2026

Lee Buchanan 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Ibrahim Osman

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad31 Aug 2026

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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Birmingham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César De la Hoz is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match29 Aug 2026

Patrick Roberts sends Birmingham past Sheffield

It finished 3‑1, and it was Patrick Roberts’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Birmingham.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to August Priske

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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Carlos Vicente in the eights

A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Dael Fry's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

4 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Jhon Solís, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Birmingham

Carlos Vicente 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Carlos Vicente the difference as Birmingham beat Milton Keynes Dons

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Carlos Vicente. 1‑0 against Milton Keynes Dons, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Birmingham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Roberts is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

One of those days for Carlos Vicente

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Luis Vázquez is still paying for one afternoon at Birmingham

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Patrick Roberts

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Carlos Vicente finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Birmingham have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A day to forget for Luis Vázquez

Marked 4.79, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief