Town, Nottingham Forest and Norwich City are chasing Birmingham City midfielder Keith Fahey, according to reports in Ireland. Elsewhere, the Blues are also linked with Watford's Jonathan Hogg and Manchester United’s Nick Powell.

Irish international Fahey, 29, was with Arsenal’s academy and moved on to Aston Villa while still a youth player, but failed to make a first team appearance and returned to Ireland.

The Dubliner, who has been capped 16 times by his country, scoring three goals, played for Bluebell United, St Patrick’s Athletic and Drogheda before joining Birmingham in January 2009.

Since then he has made 107 starts and 35 sub appearances for the Midlanders, scoring nine times.

Fahey, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has been back in Ireland on compassionate leave for the last seven weeks.

Forest are now managed by Alex McLeish and Norwich by Chris Hughton, both of whom were previously in charge at Birmingham.

Meanwhile, the Blues are being linked with a permanent move for 24-year-old Watford defensive midfielder Jonathan Hogg.

The £1 million-rated Teessider also learnt his trade at Aston Villa, spending time on loan at Darlington and Portsmouth while at Villa Park.

Having made seven appearances for the Premier League club Hogg moved on to Watford in the summer of 2011 for an undisclosed fee, signing a three-year contract.

Hogg has been a regular in the increasingly impressive Watford side this season but reportedly could become a victim of Gianfranco Zola's revolution at Vicarage Road,

Elsewhere, Town, Leicester and Peterborough are all claimed to be interested in signing Manchester United midfielder Nick Powell on loan for the rest of the season.

The 18-year-old was previously a Blues target during his time with Crewe Alexandra.

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blueherts added 21:41 - Jan 3 Yeates - hmm - just heard from Watford fan is a sh#*e , but ok with deadball situations - - On that subject after seeing Baines freekick last night I remembered the one he scored vs us for Wigan ( think it was the 'Le Pen' game ) - similar type goal ?
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blueherts added 21:49 - Jan 3 Ooops apologies - Le Pen was injured afew years earlier vs Bolton - Le Pan and Karic - whatever happened there !!! 10 years on , things are not that bad !!
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blueherts added 22:02 - Jan 3 Ha - Squad from 10 years ago in FA Cup tie vs Morecambe; Squad: Abidallah, Ambrose, Armstrong, D Bent, M Bent, Clapham, Couñago, George, Holland, Hreidarsson, Marshall, Naylor, Pullen, Reuser, Richards, Wilnis and Wright. Magilton , Miller , Makin and Gaardsoe out Quite afew left not long after that I seem to remember !
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itfcbarmyarmy added 22:42 - Jan 3 @Hoggwash, I have seen numerous budgies on here and as our arch rivals i can understand why they would come on here to throw abuse as we do to them. but a watford fan on here really does tell me a lot about your no life fans. but then again if i had a stadium like yours i would probably want to sign up to another clubs fan page.
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wrighty_blue97 added 23:33 - Jan 3 How about trying to get adam hammil ? premier league quality, perhaps in a swap deal with martin, hammil creates, as does martin, BUT hammil can also finish unlike martin.
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Markthehorn added 06:36 - Jan 4 blueherts - Well that is debatable but then I've seen world class players fail to beat the 1st man from set pieces on occasions so it might just be a bad habit. We'll see...
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Monkeycum added 10:17 - Jan 4 Re the Morecambe FA Cup game, I'm pretty much 100% sure Scowcroft played in that one, but I could be wrong. One thing I do remember from that game is (apart from the Morecambe fans singing "Premier League? You're having a laugh!" - fair point on our form at that time) some Morecambe fans near me giving Wilnis constant abuse about him being 'gay'(?)!
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