Birmingham Metropolis teenager Brandon Khela is ready for a mortgage transfer to Scotland for the remainder of the season, Sky Sports activities Information understands.
Sky Sports activities Information revealed earlier this week that the teenager has been attracting mortgage curiosity – and the 18-year-old midfielder is now poised to proceed his growth north of the border.
Sikh-Punjabi teenager Khela grew to become the primary British South Asian to symbolize Birmingham Metropolis’s males’s first group when he got here off the bench within the membership’s 2-0 Carabao Cup first spherical win towards Cheltenham City again in August.
Khela signed his first skilled contract on the membership 18 months in the past and was a daily for Birmingham Metropolis’s U23s final season.
The technically gifted midfielder made an prompt impression on former supervisor Lee Bowyer throughout his spell answerable for Blues, with Bowyer rewarding Khela with a spot on the bench for Birmingham’s 2-2 draw with Stoke in the course of the 2021/22 season.
England youth worldwide Khela has been on Birmingham’s bench on 12 events within the Championship this season, making his league debut as a late substitute in a 4-1 win towards Huddersfield at St Andrew’s in October.
Khela began enjoying soccer aged three and will have joined hometown membership Coventry Metropolis however opted for a transfer to Birmingham after he was scouted by the membership. He has since performed in each age-group aspect.
The previous Arden Academy pupil just isn’t the one footballing expertise within the household, with youthful brother Reiss penning scholarship phrases with Leicester Metropolis early final 12 months.
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