Opinion: Birmingham City should go all out to land 23-year-old forward this summer

When it’s all said and done when the season ends on May 7, it will have yet again been another disappointing campaign in the Championship for Birmingham City.

The Blues have been stuck in the second tier of English football for 11 straight seasons now, and for whatever reason they cannot get out of the bottom half rut they currently find themselves stuck in.

There’s been multiple changing of managers and playing personnel to try and find a winning formula, but Lee Bowyer is finding it as tough as his predecessors to get a consistent run of results going.

With just two matches remaining, Birmingham sit in 20th position, which is lower than any of their recent finishes, and you have to cast your minds back to 2016 to find the last time the Blues finished in the Championship’s top half.

Birmingham didn’t exactly spend money on transfer fees to bolster Bowyer’s squad this season, with the only player arriving for money being Juninho Bacuna in January – the rest of the club’s additions were loans or free transfers.

We have no idea what the owners intentions are for this coming summer at St. Andrew’s, but they could break the habit of a lifetime by making at least one signing for a significant transfer fee – a player that Bowyer could build a team around if he’s still in charge of the club.

Step forward Josh Maja, who will surely be looking for a permanent home in England with his Bordeaux contract coming into its final year when the summer arrives.

Bordeaux took a punt on the striker back in January 2019 when he was on a fantastic goalscoring run in League One with Sunderland, however his time across the English Channel hasn’t exactly been successful.

A seasonal best of six Ligue 1 goals in 21 appearances during the 2019-20