Birmingham City should sign Kenneth Paal and Tottenham player before 8th August | OneFootball

Birmingham City have already signed a team's worth of players this summer but there are still further additions they could make before the new season.

Birmingham City aren't standing still in the transfer market this summer, but there are still additions that they could make as they push for a second successive promotion.

Birmingham are having an extremely busy summer in the transfer market following their record-breaking promotion from League One at the end of last season.

With plans very much afoot to build a new, 62,000-capacity stadium, the Blues aren't hanging about, and it's clear that the club's ambition is to achieve a second successive promotion this season. Having already brought 10+ new players to the club, they've already made a team's worth of new signings this summer, but that doesn't mean that they're done yet.

There are still positions in which they could use more cover or an upgrade, and there are available and attainable players that they could bring in to further bolster their ranks. Here are two that Birmingham could yet take to St Andrew's ahead of the start of the new season.

Kenneth Paal

Alex Cochrane held down the left-back position for Birmingham last season with Lee Buchanan as cover, but the Blues could add a little more experience to that position by moving for Kenneth Paal, who left Queens Park Rangers upon the expiry of his contract at the end of 2024-25.

If there's one word that could really be used to describe Paal, it would be "calm". This is a player who never seems hassled or harried on the ball, but who also carries the significant advantage of being excellent going forward. He's also consistent, having missed only 15 League games for QPR over the last three seasons. He's a progressive defender in the purest sense of the word, and would make an excellent addition to Chris Davies' squad.

Will Lankshear

Lankshear may seem like a slightly cheeky choice, considering how closely he's connected with Birmingham's local rivals West Bromwich Albion, but he's a seriously talented young player and the Blues could do far worse than to try and hijack any return to The Hawthorns that the Baggies might be planning.

Lankshear went to The Hawthorns on loan from Spurs in January, and made 11 appearances in the Championship over the second half of the season. It's been considered that the arrival of the former Spurs coach Ryan Mason as Albion's new head coach earlier this summer would smooth the way for Lankshear to return, but this hasn't happened as yet and the ambition of getting Birmingham into the Premier League may appeal to the young forward.

Another season out on loan may be good for a player who's already shown a lot of promise, but there's no reason why this has to be with West Bromwich Albion. If Birmingham could step in and persuade him to join them, they'd be getting an excellent prospect who opens up a different attacking threat to that of Jay Stansfield. It could be good for the player too, to be around a club where ambition is in the air and, at the moment, the only direction still seems to be up.

Birmingham, of course, have plenty of attacking depth and have just signed Kyōgo Furuhashi to bolster that further. However, there is scope for movement out of the club for an Alfie May or Lyndon Dykes, which would mean another signing is well needed.