Tony Mowbray and Alex Pritchard have been mentioned reuniting at St. Andrew’s, although there is fierce competition for his services.
There is one week remaining in the January transfer window, and rumors about players joining Birmingham City are beginning to circulate.
Andre Dozzell, a loanee from QPR, has already been added, while Paik Seung-ho, an international for South Korea, appears nearing arrival in the Midlands.
However, another midfielder has been connected to Tony Mowbray’s team; Alex Pritchard, a player for Sunderland, and Birmingham’s relatively new manager are rumored to be getting back together.
The Blues are among several teams eager to sign the Black Cats player, who now has fewer than six months left on his contract at the Stadium of Light, as originally revealed by The Telegraph.
Despite now being the wrong side of 30 years of age, Pritchard would be an ideal signing for Birmingham as they look to add to their creative options in the final third.
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That is according to FLW’s Birmingham fan pundit Mike Gibbs, who thinks his club should do all they can to land the attacking midfielder despite interest from elsewhere.
“I’d be really happy,” Mike said when speaking to Football League World.
“I think he’s a fantastic footballer at Championship level, he’s proven, I think his stats and goal contributions absolutely show that.
“So, I think he would be a massive coup for the club if we could get him.
“I think the only sort of challenge for me is I think he’s about to turn 31, and he’s not a long-term prospect for us, he’s probably a short to medium-term, maybe a two year sort of fix.
“So, that’s the only thing in the back of my mind.
“I know he’s got six months left on his contract, again if we could bring him in – even on loan – then I think I’d absolutely do it, but we’ve just got to be conscious not to give him a too long a contract on too big wages.
“We’ve done that before with players towards the end of their career and it’s massively backfired, so if we have a sensible approach going for him then I’m massively for it.
“I think he’d bring a different dimension to the players we’ve got in those attacking areas as well with the different attributes he’d bring to the club and that attacking line, so I’d be all for it.”
Mowbray factor could help Birmingham fend off Pritchard competition
Even though Birmingham already look set to land a second midfielder of the transfer window, signing Pritchard would make a ton of sense for the Blues.
