Max Bird

Defensive Midfielder - Birmingham
1 Sep 2026
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Marked for Max Bird

3 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Jhon Solís, 21, steals the show — 7.87

Marked 7.87 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Birmingham baulk at the price for Brandon Austin

Tottenham wanted more than $1.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Birmingham go back to the board over Brandon Austin

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.4M — a club that wants Brandon Austin enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Micah Hamilton

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Birmingham have done the hard part with Middlesbrough, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Birmingham

Ibrahim Osman and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market17 Aug 2026

Jay Stansfield attracts admirers

The name of Jay Stansfield has come up in conversations Birmingham were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

The game went through Tommy Doyle — 6.67

Marked 6.67 on 14 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Birmingham

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Lewie Coyle

Birmingham asked and Hull 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.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Max Bird signs a new deal

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

Squad3 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Demarai Gray wants more than Birmingham are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Aug 2026

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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Reading join the queue for Lee Buchanan

Add another name to the list: Reading have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lee Buchanan. The answer from Birmingham has not changed — yet.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Birmingham and Dael Fry

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Max Bird's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad3 Aug 2026

8 new faces, and Birmingham are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Birmingham ask about Gabe Forsyth

A loan enquiry to Norwich City: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief