BBC Radio WM have today reported that Birmingham City Football Club are set to name ex-Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka as Pep Clotet’s replacement.
With Birmingham City failing to win a game since the three month suspension on football due to COVID-19 – could this be the change the club needs? It certainly sounds like Karanka has his work cut out for him.
BBC Radio WM report that Blues chief executive Xuandong Ren is said to have been in Spain finalising negotiations with the 46-year-old.
Being out of management since being sacked by Nottingham Forest in January 2019, Karanka had only just finished a year in the job.
Karanka’s time at the Riverside Stadium ended in March 2017 as Boro battled to avoid being immediately relegated back to the Championship.
The former Real Madrid coach, who worked under Jose Mourinho at the Bernabeu, was given his first shot at management at Boro when appointed in 2013 and proved a success as he guided them back to the top flight in the 2015-16 season. But can Karanka do what spaniard Pep Clotet could not, after deserting the club with four matches still to play in the Championship season.
All this as well as the departure of Birmingham City’s youngest and most promising new talent – 17 year old Jude Bellingham, who left for greener pastures at Borussia Dortmund – has left us watching anxiously to see what the future holds for the club!
Read the BBC’s full report here.
