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Pressure on Blues grows after spree
WOW! The £10m transfer of Jay Stansfield to Birmingham (see story right) really caused shockwaves in English football late on Friday night.
A League One club shelling out an eight-figure fee for a player? It’s simply hard to believe.
It’s certainly a long way away from the days when Trevor Francis left Birmingham for a British transfer record fee of £1m to join Nottingham Forest in 1979. Now you’ve got a third tier side forking out ten times that much!
It’s been an incredible transfer window for the Blues and...

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