Birmingham City 'close in' on landmark tenth summer signing with lethal striker latest transfer target

Birmingham City stormed to the League One title last season at the first time of asking. They smashed the record points tally in the procress. The Midlands outfit went up to the Championship along with Wrexham and Charlton Athletic.

The Blues have been busy on the transfer front so far this summer. The likes of Kyogo Furuhashi, Tommy Doyle and James Beadle have joined them in this window, among others. They have the chance to get some more signings through the door over the coming weeks.

Birmingham City update regarding Marvin Ducksch

Birmingham are ‘closing in’ on the signing of striker Marvin Ducksch from Werder Bremen, according to Football League World. They are making progress as they look to lure the forward to England. He has caught the eye in the Bundesliga over recent years.

Ducksch, 31, joined his current club back in 2021. He has since scored 54 goals in 134 games in all competitions, nine of which came in the last campaign. His contract expires in June next year.

The Germany international, who has two caps under his belt, started his career at Borussia Dortmund and rose up through their academy ranks. He was a regular for the German giants at various different youth levels as a youngster. The Dortmund-born man went on to play eight games for their first-team.

Ducksch has since embarked on spells at SC Paderborn, FC St. Pauli, Holstein Kiel, Fortuna Dusseldorf and Hannover 96. He was a hit with the latter and found the net on 34 occasions in 70. The attacker may now fancy his chances of testing himself in England.

What would Marvin Ducksch offer Birmingham City?

Birmingham could see Ducksch as someone to boost their striking options. If he joined, he would add more firepower to their attacking department. He has never played outside of Germany though so patience may be required whilst he adapts to life in a new country.

If he did join, question marks may be raised over Lydon Dykes’ future. The Blues signed him from QPR around 12 months ago but he has struggled for form. They have already sold Alfie May to Huddersfield Town.

In this latest recruitment update, Davies has said: “We’ve made a start obviously, signed a few players in a week. They all sort of came in a flurry, so that was positive. But we had to replace I think six or seven players who left, so you naturally have to replace them with six or seven players, that’s normal. And yeah, I think we’ve still got work to do, definitely, but that’s an ongoing process.

“Obviously it’s still six-odd weeks of the window left so there will be more movement over time, but the early flurry that we had I think made a good impact trying to signal some of our intent and bringing some quality in. They’re just all on different paths at the moment physically, so they have to get up to speed. We’ll continue to work as we always do, to see what else we can do to improve the squad.”