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Demarai Gray feature: "Does he really want to be here? Is he back just to be back home? Is he still motivated?"
01.11.26, 23:51 Updated 02.11.26, 00:10
Coming back to your hometown club, older, wiser and with a Premier League winners' medal tucked under your belt, you'd think nothing would faze you.
Think again.
Despite returning as a former favourite, breakthrough star from the academy and with the experience of nearly 400 senior appearances, Demarai Gray had a sense of trepidation.
When he made his first debut, as a bright-eyed, quicksilver 17-year-old in October 2013, he took it all in his excited stride.
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covered Blues for the Birmingham Mail & Sports Argus as correspondent & chief sports writer for 28 years before becoming head of media & communications at St. Andrew's in 2014. Most recently he worked in academy talent ID & recruitment before returning full circle by joining renowned journalist Neil Moxley with the launch of Forever Blues.