Birmingham to make £8m bid for Liverpool's Ryan Babel

• zocoss

  14 Jul 10, 11:56

  Birmingham City Boss Alex McLeish Looking To Make £8 Million Move For Liverpool Forward Ryan Babel - Report

  

  Ryan Babel - Liverpool (Getty Images)

   

   

   

  Birmingham City manager Alex McLeish is set to make another £8 million bid for Liverpool striker Ryan Babel.
  
  McLeish was not successful in his bid to get the Netherlands international last January as the price that former Reds boss Rafael Benitez was seeking proved to be too high for Birmingham.
  
  Now that Roy Hodgson is in charge of Liverpool, McLeish will attempt to bring Babel to St Andrews again, according to the Daily Star.
  
  Hodgson is looking to sell in order to fund moves for his transfer targets and the 23-year-old Dutchman could be sacrificed.
  
  Up to this point McLeish has spent a combined £12 million to buy striker Nikola Zigic and goalkeeper Ben Foster, and the Blues manager hopes to add more players to the squad this summer.
  
   “We want to bring in another couple of bodies to the squad at least. We are trying to add more players,” McLeish said.
  
  Birmingham is looking to build on a surprise ninth place finish in the Premier League last season.
  
  
• Poignant

  14 Jul 10, 13:36

  now it's not the time to sell.

  till now i stil believe babel has got the potential, he just need the correct teachings.

• Y_Shun

  14 Jul 10, 23:26

  I think its time for him to get a bigger role in Liverpool.