Birmingham City should swoop for Tottenham striker - and Chris Davies can play a massive part in deal: View | OneFootball

New Head Coach Chris Davies may be able to use his North London history to strike an exciting deal for Blues

With a vocally ambitious ownership group, Birmingham City will be striving to make an immediate return to the Championship in the 2024/25 campaign.

After Tony Mowbray stepped down from his post due to an ongoing health condition, Chris Davies was recently the man elected to oversee Birmingham City's promotion mission from League One, where they hadn't been for more than 20 years.

Formerly assistant to Brendan Rodgers at Swansea City, Celtic and Leicester City, the 39-year-old Head Coach held the same role under Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham Hotspur last term and Blues supporters may just have hopes of a North London raid.

That could well take place in the form of acquiring striking prospect Jude Soonsup-Bell, who could be set to depart the club.

Jude Soonsup-Bell's current Tottenham Hotspur situation

According to a claim made by BBC reporter Nizaar Kinsella (June 28, 11:47am), Spurs striker Soonsup-Bell is attracting interest across the EFL when it comes to both permanent and loan deals.

It's believed that Soonsup-Bell, who was previously prolific for Chelsea's academy, had been courted in January, with Spurs rebuffing such propositions at the time.

The existing familiarity between Soonsup-Bell and Davies could work in Birmingham's favour, as you can likely imagine that Spurs will want the young forward to develop in a comfortable and cohesive environment if they are to decide that they want to loan him out rather than sell.

Relationships and connections are often pivotal in successful transfer deals, which this theoretical one would certainly have the potential to be.

Birmingham will be looking for fresh, younger options in the striker next term after the return of impressive loanee Jay Stansfield to parent club Fulham, and his impression on loan should create a blueprint for Davies and co to replicate once again.

Chris Davies should bring Jude Soonsup-Bell to Birmingham City from Spurs

There's always a selection of promising academy players throughout the country who simply appear a class above the youth-team game, and Soonsup-Bell fits that criteria.

The 20-year-old frontman has often caught the eye with the academies of both Chelsea and Spurs and he feels primed to graduate to first-team action in the near future, which Birmingham could certainly facilitate.

He was typically more prolific at under-18's level, but his significant upturn in form last year is indicative of a player now finally capable of making the leap of faith into senior football.

Meanwhile, EFL veteran Lukas Jutkiewicz surely represents an ideal mentor for a player like Soonsup-Bell if he stays at City, and the vast array of experience in the 35-year-old's arsenal could be easily translatable and, in turn, wholly beneficial.

With Jutkiewicz registered as Birmingham's only senior striker at the time of writing, it would be unwise and counterproductive for Soonsup-Bell to occupy such a burden, and they need to get further additions in through the door regardless of whether they pursue the Spurs academy star.

He's definitely worth a punt, though, and even though Alfie May is of interest to the Blues as a more proven option, Soonsup-Bell has his career ahead of him and a hell of a lot of potential.

Loan moves that involve young players from the top-flight are encouragingly low-risk by nature; the potential pay-off is that you get yourself a player perhaps already of Premier League class for a meager loan fee and salary percentage, or adversely, you just end up with signing someone not quite cut out for the level, but at little cost.

It's low-risk, high-reward shopping that consistently pays dividends up and down the divisions and Birmingham can benefit from visiting that aisle this summer, even if the club's transfer warchest vastly outstrips those of their League One competitors.