Tony Mowbray to provide Birmingham City a significant transfer boost with…

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Tony Mowbray should provide Birmingham City a significant transfer boost with the signing of Amad Diallo.

Tony Mowbray, the newly appointed manager of Birmingham City, will seek to use the current transfer window to help shape the Blues into his playing style.

The use of exciting young talent that Mowbray helped develop was a key feature that enabled the positive attacking brand of football Mowbray established at the Black Cats, and key members of his Mackems team included starlets such as Manchester United’s Amad Diallo, who was on loan at the club during the 2022/23 season.

Mowbray has inherited a Blues team that is 20th in the Championship table, just six points clear of the relegation zone, thanks to the disastrous form of his predecessor Wayne Rooney, so there is all the more reason for the new boss to bring in his own players to help steer the Blues away from trouble.

Mowbray should look to bring Diallo to the Blues

Mowbray assisted in the development of the youngster, who repaid his manager’s faith by scoring 13 goals and creating three assists from 27 starts and 37 Championship appearances in total during the 2022/23 Championship campaign, which saw the Mackems reach the play-off spots.

These statistics suggest that Diallo is a dangerous talent in the second tier, and if he joins the Blues on loan, there is nothing stopping the Ivorian from resuming his success under Mowbray, who should be keen to coach the 21-year-old again.

In other circumstances, Diallo may be reluctant to leave parent club United on loan to a Championship side struggling to stay afloat, but given that Mowbray is a manager the starlet has previously thrived under, he may want to re-unite with his former boss.

Furthermore, the Blues are slightly short in goal-scoring, having scored only 30 goals in 26 league games, while Stoke City and Millwall are the only sides in the division to have scored fewer goals than the Blues.

A loan deal for Diallo would make sense for all parties involved

Diallo will be looking for lots of game time for Erik Ten Hag’s Red Devils after returning in December from a protracted injury sustained in pre-season, especially after showing some promise in a 36-minute cameo in a recent away trip to Nottingham Forest.

After that performance, the Ivorian would have hoped to play in Monday night’s FA Cup third round clash at Wigan Athletic, but he was ruled out due to sickness, so it will be intriguing to see if the ace plays against Tottenham on Sunday.

The one certainty for Diallo in terms of playing time is that if he joins the Blues, Mowbray will select him game in, game out, which might lead to him becoming a talisman at St Andrew’s.

Mowbray could leverage his relationship with Diallo to help establish his style of play at his new club and lead the Blues away from the relegation zone and into a more comfortable mid-table position.