Birmingham City’s signing of Tommy Doyle sent shockwaves around the Championship in July.

Doyle was targeted by a bunch of Championship teams after two years in the Premier League with Wolverhampton Wanderers but opted for Blues.

A promotion winner before with Sheffield United, everyone viewed Blues signing Doyle on a season-long loan as a bit of a coup, but fitting the 23-year-old into the starting XI is proving to be problematic for Chris Davies.

The Blues manager has earmarked Doyle for two positions in his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation: number six and number 10.

Doyle is naturally a deep-lying midfielder but those two roles within Blues’ tactical set-up are owned by Tomoki Iwata and Paik Seung-ho. The likelihood of Davies breaking up a tried and trusted partnership that he believ

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