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<font size="4"><u style="font-family: arial; "><strong>Tom Whitson takes over at the blues<br><br></strong></u><strong style="font-family: arial; "></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial">after long deliberation after the shock sacking of Alex Mcleash Birmingham city have decided to employ young unknown manager Tom Whitson, the choice will not go down well with the fans after the club being linked with top managers such as Chris Houghton but the young bluenose will get his chance to prove himself in Europe and in the Championship which will be a huge ordeal for him and the club and even though they may not like it he will have the backing of the fans.<br>in an interview with us the rookie told<br>"there is a great set up here at st Andrews and i am looking forward to working with the players, my first job will be to free up some funds and bring in new staff"<br>it looks like there could be a shake up backstage at the blues and who will be in and who will be out keep tuned.<br><br><b><u>New youth intake at the blues<br></u></b>after being informed that the are only a few players at the club who really have a chance of breaking into the first team at st Andrews the Brum boss decided to add a few players to the academy who he though wouldn't fulfill their potential at their current clubs<ul><li><u>Aaron Oakley- 16 year old welsh center back (Swindon)</u></li><li><u>Jamie Barry- 15 year old central midfielder (Bury</u>)</li><li><u>Josh Todd- 17 year old central or defensive midfielder (Carlisle)</u><br></li><li><u>Jason Banton- 18 year old left winger (Free)</u><br></li><li><u>Ivan- 17 year old Spanish right back (Levante)</u><br></li><li><u>Alvaro Arencibia- 16 year old central defender (Las Palmas)</u></li></ul>all of the players here are said to have bright futures at the club and shows Tom's forward thinking mentality.<br><br><u><strong>new staff in at st Andrews<br></strong></u>the new Birmingham boss has decided out with the old and in with the new over the past few days by bringing in no less than 10 new staff members showing that Tom means business here and wants Birmingham up where they belong as soon as possible.<br><br><u><strong>N'daw... no more<br></strong></u>after only just coming to the club Guirane N'daw has been axed by the Birmingham boss, Tom said that he didnt fit into his formation or style of play and was taking up too many wages, N'daw will now return to AS saint etienne, maybe a few more faces may leave before the start of the season.<br><br><u><strong>Birmingham to start improvements</strong><br></u>after only being at the club 2 weeks Tom has managed to get the board to back him in expanding the stadium capacity to a 36,134 seater stadium, planned work to improve the youth and junior coaching, this shows it is a long term project the boss is working on and has the fans exited.<br><div style="text-align: center; "><b><u><span style="color:#0000cd;">Birmingham</span> 4-1 <span style="color:#00ff00;">celtic</span> (Friendly)<br></u></b></div><div style="text-align: left; "> <u><strong>C</strong></u><b><u>urtis Davies</u> <u>Scott Brown<br></u></b> <b><u>Keith Fahey(2)<br></u></b> <strong><u>chris burke<br><br></u></strong></div><div style="text-align: center; "><strong></strong></div><div style="text-align: center; ">a great result to kick start the new Brum boss' career a 4-1 thrashing of Celtic it will surely get the team pumped for the season now.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><b><u><br>Wood and Macheda join the blues<br></u></b>after long transfer talks Birmingham city have managed to get their men on season long loans, this will surely get the imaginations of the fans rolling now with two strong powerful players at the club and two needed signings due to king and Zigic out until November will they be able to win the brummies promotion we do not know but we do know that thereis still a long summer to go and what else does the brum manager have in mind.<br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><u><strong>Birmingham 3-1 Sunderland (friendly)</strong></u></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Birmingham's flourishing form continues with two goals from curtis davies and one from new signing wood a rampage over Sunderland the future looks bright for the boys in blue.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><u><strong>Charlton 2-8 Birmingham (Friendly)<br></strong></u>A goal glut win over Charlton means Birminghams great for continues after destroying Charlton 2-8 with goals from Redmond, Pablo Ibanez, Enric Valles, Chris Burke, Kerr and a hat trick from Federico Macheda.<br><u><strong>Hartlepool 3-2 Birmingham (friendly)<br></strong></u>a poor performance in a game Birmingham should have won, goals from Fahey and Gombala were only consolations to what was a bad day at the office for the brum manager.<br><strong><u>Stranraer 1-3 Birmingham (friendly)<br></u></strong>a return to for for blues after a poor last game, goals from macheda and asante sealed the victory.<br><strong><u>Plymouth 0-2 Birmingham (friendly)<br></u></strong>a great way to end Pre-season for the blues and sends them into the game against Cardiff full of confidence after only losing one out of 6 games.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><u><strong>Birmingham lose Ridgewell<br></strong></u>after a long tough battle to keep Liam Ridgewell the offer from West Bromwich Albion was too good to turn down for the blues boss, the figure is said to be around £3.5 million and will give the blues boss room to maneuver into buying his replacement with David Murphy the only left back at the club now. Tom said he wishes the best of luck to Ridgewell in the future and is now set to sign Greamme Shinnie as his successor.<br> <br><u><strong>Shinnie has a bright future at blues<br></strong></u>The blue manager has this morning announced that he has signed Greamme Shinnie from Inverness Caledonian Thistle the figure is said to be around £775k and Tom said its a bargain for a player of Greamme's standard and he will keep improving i am sure of it.<br><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "> </div><div style="text-align: left; "><b><u></u></b></div></font></font><div style="text-align: center; "><font size="4"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><br></font></font></div>