Lee Bowyer made to wait for 'discussion' on Birmingham City future

Lee Bowyer says his future will be decided at the end of the season, with Birmingham City due to play their final away game of the campaign at Cardiff City this weekend. Blues play their last match at home to Blackburn Rovers on Saturday week.

At that point Bowyer says he will meet with chairman Zhao Wenqing to see what happens going forward. Bowyer has 12 months left on the contract he signed when he returned to Blues from Charlton in March 2021.

Speaking after the 6-1 hammering at Blackpool the former midfielder admitted his job might not be entirely safe, saying: “I would be stupid to think that my job is as safe as I think it should be.” In the build up to the 2-2 draw with Millwall he added that he wants to speak to the board, with a view to planning for next season.

And he has told BBCWM he has not yet been able to do so, instead talking to technical director Craig Gardner. “I have spoken with Craig,” he said. “Obviously I was waiting for a response and I have gone through Craig and Craig is saying that the chairman wants to wait until the end of the season to have a discussion.

“Everybody can look at it in whichever way they want, you can look at it in a negative way, in a positive way at the end of the day it’s still my career as well that I have to think about.

“Because whether we like it or not I get judged every week and if I do try to do the right thing by the club and play some youngsters, which has been a positive thing, then we might lose more games than what we should have done and people might judge me on that. So sometimes it’s a no win situation being in my position.

“The most important thing is I want to finish strongly because, like I said it’s my career as well, I want to win games, that’s all