Lee Buchanan

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The Birmingham Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market31 Aug 2026

Business is business: Carlos Vicente goes

AC Milan paid $33.7M and Birmingham took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

A $33.7M sale, and a town that did not want it

Carlos Vicente has gone, the accounts have $33.7M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

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.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Door shut on Ayyoub Bouaddi

Birmingham asked and Manchester City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match29 Aug 2026

Swansea City take the points off Birmingham

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ibrahim Osman runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Birmingham

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Paul Ross to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Lee Gregory

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Aug 2026

Carlos Vicente signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Carlos Vicente commits to Birmingham for another 4 years.

Squad10 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Abdoullah Ba

Birmingham asked and Sunderland said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market10 Aug 2026

48 months and counting on Christoph Klarer

Still no offer on the table, and Christoph Klarer’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Carlos Vicente knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Carlos Vicente trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market10 Aug 2026

Lee Buchanan is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Birmingham has been clear about where Lee Buchanan stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market10 Aug 2026

Experience through the door at Birmingham

José Ortigoza arrives at 39 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market10 Aug 2026

Carlos Vicente linked with a move away

The name of Carlos Vicente keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Birmingham say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Luis Vázquez still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Birmingham would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief