Birmingham City to destroy League One transfer record with £10million Jay Stansfield move - The Mirror

Blues' American owners are determined to jump straight out of the third tier and into the Championship and after a summer where they've consistently put their hands in their pockets, are now ready to drop a Deadline Day bombshell

Birmingham City have lodged a £10million bid with Fulham for Jay Stansfield.

Stansfield enjoyed a spell on loan at St Andrew's last season, was extremely impressive and news has been circulating for weeks that Blues were desperate to have him back.

Ironically, the young striker was in Fulham's team that won in the League Cup at Brum on Tuesday night, Stansfield scoring and taking the man of the match award in victory for the Premier League side.

But he's not first, nor even second, choice at Craven Cottage, wants regular game time and a big-money move is entirely in keeping with the Birmingham owners modus operandi - and they will want to make a statement signing on deadline day.

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Certainly, it would be a massive statement of intent by the American owners for a player who swept the board at the club’s awards last season, winning everything in sight.

Interestingly, Stansfield’s brother works at the club and Stansfield, 21, needs to play to advance his career.

The move ticks a lot of boxes and it remains to be seen if Fulham accept the bid. But after some big spending of their own this summer - not least on Arsenal's Emile Smith Rowe and Crystal Palace defender Joachim Anderson, who combined cost in excess of £55million - its likely the west London club will want to claw some money back.

And given how well Stansfield did at Blues last term and how well thought of he is in the second city, they may not get an offer of this magnitude again, particularly if he spends this season not playing.

The £10million transfer fee would be a record spend for a League One club, destroying the previous record, when Sunderland spent £4million on Will Grigg from Wigan.

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