Birmingham must surely now admit mistake on £25k-a-week star – They must rectify it in January | OneFootball

Birmingham City should seek to rectify the signing of Marvin Ducksch, who joined from Werder Bremen in the summer.

After a record-breaking season in League One, Birmingham City went into this Championship campaign expecting to challenge for promotion once again, but the Blues will now be beginning to accept they made a few mistakes in the summer transfer window.

Among those mistakes was the outlay put into signing experienced attacker Marvin Ducksch from Bundesliga outfit Werder Bremen, who has endured a tough time of it at St Andrew’s thus far.

Under the management of Chris Davies, Birmingham amassed 111 points last season as they romped their way to the third-tier title after a ridiculous level of spending for the level.

The ambitious ownership of chairman Tom Wagner has led to the club and supporters believing they will be credible challengers for promotion from the second-tier, but it hasn’t quite worked out like that in the opening couple of months with just four victories in their opening 12 games of the Championship season.

Mistakes were made in the construction of their squad for this season and Ducksch certainly has to fall into that category, with a move away from the second city surely on the cards already in the January transfer window.

Birmingham made a mistake with Marvin Ducksch signing

Having been an impressive goal scorer in the 2. Bundesliga, Marvin Ducksch then enjoyed a reasonable

record in Germany’s top-flight and so, from the perspective of signing someone with very good pedigree, his addition would have been fairly viewed as a coup for City.

However, with Birmingham trying to impose their possession-dominant style of football at a higher level, the Blues have been far too easily dealt with this season and Chris Davies has resorted to a fair bit of chopping and changing with the cohesion of his team across the park taking a massive hit.

That will never be helpful for an experienced striker making their first move to a new country to bed in, especially with Ducksch also suffering from a few injuries at the start of this season.

That is certainly out of Birmingham’s hands but injuries are a part of the game and the risk factor has to be factored into the signing and so to have made such a hefty financial commitment on a 31-year-old was always going to be potentially problematic.

According to Capology, Ducksch earns £25,000 per week at Birmingham and yet he has only managed one start for the club in the opening couple of months of this campaign.

A prolific player in the German second-tier with a reasonable Bundesliga record would suggest it is a good signing but it is a basic level of thought that ignores all of the problems that were predictable that have now ensued, and it is looking more and more like a mistake with each passing week.

Jay Stansfield and Kyogo Furuhashi are Birmingham’s marquee forwards

Spending that much on wages for an attacker would surely have to lead to that player becoming the fulcrum of the side and being the star man for any newly-promoted side out of League One.

However, Ducksch was always going to be someone to simply supplement an already star studded attack that includes club-record signing Jay Stansfield and former Celtic man Kyogo Furuhashi.

It appeared to have been a signing for the sake of it, without any real plan of how to use him on a regular basis in the eleven – and using him on a regular basis is surely required given his age and wage.

The only way in which Ducksch would find form and be able to regularly contribute to Birmingham’s promotion ideals would be by getting regular minutes, which were always going to be limited, even without injury, by Stansfield and Furuhashi.