Exclusive: Birmingham City set to send stunning £30k-a-week offer to 12-goal star | OneFootball

Birmingham City are preparing a big-money swoop for out of contract Peterborough United star Kwame Poku, FLW can exclusively reveal.

Birmingham City are planning to offer Kwame Poku a £30,000-a-week contract upon the expiration of his Peterborough United contract this summer, sources have exclusively told Football League World.

Having wrapped up the League One title in some style this season, Birmingham City's preparations for life back in the Championship are well underway.

Armed with highly ambitious owners with deep pockets, and combined with an already talented group of players, the Blues could well muster yet another promotion charge in the second tier next season should they get their summer recruitment right.

Birmingham City preparing lucrative £30k-a-week contract offer for Peterborough United star Kwame Poku

Football Insider reported on 17 April that Birmingham City had opened preliminary talks to sign the Peterborough United winger, and now Football League World can exclusively reveal what a deal might look like for the Posh star.

Sources have exclusively informed FLW that Birmingham are planning to offer the 23-year-old a stunning £30,000-a-week contract in order to beat Rangers to his signature this summer.

Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony confirmed back in November that Poku had turned down a club-record contract offer in order to extend his time at the Weston Homes Stadium beyond the end of the season, and the club are now resigned to losing their talismanic winger this summer when his contract expires.

"Kwame probably won’t go to the Premier League straight away, but he will get a high-end Championship club," MacAnthony said of Poku in November 2024.

"He will be a Premier League star in the future and that next move will probably cost £30m."

Poku will surely find everything about Birmingham City offer too good to turn down

There are few EFL clubs with more ambition and appeal than Birmingham City at this moment in time.

One of English football's biggest sleeping giants is now fully awake, and with the talent in the squad, the support Blues fans give, and the clear vision to go right to the top of English football, it's not hard to see why so many players will be tempted to join the Birmingham revolution.

That decision would surely only be made easier with a £30,000-a-week contract placed in front of you too, especially for a player who is still in the relative infancy of his career such as Poku.

The young winger, who represents Ghana on the international stage, has emphatically proven that he's ready to make the step up from League One level next season, having bagged 12 goals and eight assists in 26 third tier appearances this season.

That's after posting an 11-goal and seven-assist campaign at the level last season too, firmly establishing himself as one of the brightest young talents the EFL has to offer.

As such, whilst the nature of the contract Birmingham City are seemingly prepared to present Poku with this summer may seem extremely high, should he continue to enjoy his rapid development in the second city, then that £30,000-a-week figure may look like a snip in a few years' time.