{"id":446475,"date":"2011-06-23T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/23\/birmingham-in-2-million-bid-for-poborsky-bangura\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T14:53:07","slug":"birmingham-in-2-million-bid-for-poborsky-bangura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/23\/birmingham-in-2-million-bid-for-poborsky-bangura\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham in \u00a32 Million Bid for &#8216;Poborsky&#8217; Bangura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.5587561375\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Concord Times (Freetown)<\/p>\n<p>22 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Freetown \u2014 Managerless Birmingham City are the latest English club to be linked with an interest in signing Sierra Leone and AIK Stockholm striker, Mohamed Poborsky Bangura.<\/p>\n<p>According to mirrorfootball, the relegated Premier League club are lining up a shock \u00a32 million to acquire the striker away from the Swedish giants.<\/p>\n<p>The mirrorfootball revealed that agents working for the Blues have been in contact with the Swedish side about the former FC Kallon striker who has been a success for AIK since he joined them last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was spotted at a lower league club by AIK but has made a strong impact in the Swedish top division league and now Birmingham City has set their eyes on him courtesy of one of their European scouts.<\/p>\n<p>Already the Blues&#8217; hierarchy has been setting up moves for the striker even when former boss Alex McLeish was on his final days at the club. Bangura is said to be on their hit list as a possible arrival at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Bangura is up for a move to England although he may have problems gaining a work permit because of Sierra Leone&#8217;s FIFA ranking. And AIK will sell him but Birmingham will face opposition from Russian giants Lokomotiv Moscow, who have offered a deal to them for a quick buy.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106231161.html\" title=\"Birmingham in \u00a32 Million Bid for 'Poborsky' Bangura\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham in \u00a32 Million Bid for &#8216;Poborsky&#8217; Bangura<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Concord Times (Freetown) 22 June 2011 Freetown \u2014 Managerless Birmingham City are the latest English club to be linked with an interest in signing Sierra Leone and AIK Stockholm striker, Mohamed Poborsky Bangura. According to mirrorfootball, the relegated Premier League club are lining up a shock \u00a32 million to acquire the striker away from the Swedish giants. The mirrorfootball revealed that agents working for the Blues have been in contact with the Swedish side about the former FC Kallon striker who has been a success for AIK since he joined them last season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-446475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Birmingham in \u00a32 Million Bid for &#039;Poborsky&#039; Bangura - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/23\/birmingham-in-2-million-bid-for-poborsky-bangura\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Birmingham in \u00a32 Million Bid for &#039;Poborsky&#039; Bangura - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Concord Times (Freetown) 22 June 2011 Freetown \u2014 Managerless Birmingham City are the latest English club to be linked with an interest in signing Sierra Leone and AIK Stockholm striker, Mohamed Poborsky Bangura. 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