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Tales from transfer windows - part 2

The second part of our look at the untold stories from Birmingham City transfer windows

05.08.26, 00:00 Updated 17.08.26, 09:44

Colin Tattum

Colin Tattum

As someone once sang, you can’t always get what you want.

For every successful transfer window signing, there are inevitably the ones that get away.

And it’s the circumstances surrounding just how that makes for fascinating and infuriating stories.

Blues have had their fair share of frustrations and farces when it comes to deals that were set up, but weren’t completed.

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Colin Tattum

Colin Tattum 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.

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