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Report: Blues set to try and lure former loanee back to St Andrew’s for another season

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Making the same mistake twice.

That’s probably the best way that I could sum up what this move would be for Birmingham City if we were to pull it off.

According to a report from Goal, Blues are one of a number of clubs that are interested in signing central defender Jake Clarke-Salter this summer, once again on a loan spell. The defender played 23 times for Blues last season, as he struggled to break the stronghold on the team that the likes of Harlee Dean and Marc Roberts had.

And that’s the main problem with this for me, if this were a case where he was the first centre-back we brought in this window (so we hadn’t brought in George Friend), and we were doing so whilst shipping out someone like Geraldo Bajrami on loan, then I’d be in favour of it, because he’d be higher up the pecking order.

But at the moment I don’t see what the benefit would be to him coming back to us, for both the club and the player. Unless he’s suddenly worked out how to play up front since returning to Stamford Bridge, we’re pretty full in the centre-back department.

Should we bring Clarke-Salter back for another year?

Yes

No

Whilst we might need him as a backup once again, will that really be enough to convince Chelsea to loan him back out to us? Don’t you think they’d prefer it if he played every week?

Don’t get me wrong, I like Clarke-Salter and some of his performances last year, like the one against West Bromwich Albion proved that he is more than capable in this division, but I just think it would be the wrong move for us to make at this time.

Whilst he did perform better than Dean and Roberts in some categories last season, there’s just not enough to convince me that he’d be able to command a place ahead of them on a full-time basis.

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2 comments

  • Mybluenose says:

    I thought we agreed to let Karanka do his job. Whoever he is looking at, that’s his job. We said even the owners shd not interfere. We don’t want any half cooked coach painting a dooms day scenario. If u are really good, get a coaching cert & apply for the job. And Karanka did say, this project will take time. So whoever he is lookingat, whether it’s a Spanish non league club player or League 2 player, he knows what he is doing.

  • Chris says:

    Well I don’t know what you were watching but salter was head and shoulders above the rest in the 2nd half of the season.

    And to claim that Dean and Roberts were a stronghold is laughable at best…mate if your going to give your opinion then make sure you at least watch games…salter is a fantastic addition for the season and will get better and better. We will benefit

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