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Among all the big spending that Birmingham City did this summer, it’s easy to overlook that they made a couple of big sales.
Headlines focused on the unprecedented spending made by the League One side. They broke the division’s transfer record on multiple occasions throughout the window, most notably when they brought back Jay Stansfield on a permanent deal from Fulham, which was reported to be worth up to £20 million.
In and amongst that, however, they did make millions from letting Jordan James, Koji Miyoshi and others leave. From those two sales alone, Blues could end up making over £8 million.
City are no longer thought of as a potential selling club. They are the ones hoovering up the talent from levels above and below them.
But any properly run club has to be open to letting players go for the right price. There are some, like Stansfield, who are likely to be at the club for a long, long time, purely because of the money it would cost to tempt Birmingham to sell and the seven-year contract he is on. Others in the squad are more expendable, though.
These two could not only have shorter careers at St Andrew’s, but they could also return some good money for Blues.
