Blues sign Euro Under-21 winning keeper Beadle

Birmingham City person signed England Under-21 goalkeeper James Beadle connected a season-long indebtedness from Premier League broadside Brighton & Hove Albion.

Beadle, 20, played successful each six games astatine this summer's Uefa European Under-21 Championship successful Slovakia arsenic England defended the rubric they won successful 2023.

He becomes Blues' archetypal signing since they won promotion backmost to the Championship astatine the archetypal attempt, breaking records on the mode arsenic League One champions.

Beadle has spent the past 18 months astatine Championship broadside Sheffield Wednesday, making 57 appearances crossed 2 abstracted indebtedness spells with the Owls.

"I privation to instrumentality that adjacent measurement up and play astatine the apical extremity of the table," helium told the nine website., external "Now I've had experiences successful the Championship, I truly consciousness similar this twelvemonth I tin footwear on."