Birmingham City have agreed a deal to sign German defender Phil Neumann in the summer. The 27-year-old has signed a pre-contract agreement and will join the Blues from Bundesliga 2 side Hannover 96 in July.

Birmingham City are expected to bring Phil Neumann to the club - although whether it's this month or the summer remains to be seen

A number of airports across the United Kingdom have closed their runways on Sunday because of heavy snow and ice.

Birmingham City are set to land long-term defensive target Phil Neumann on a pre-contract deal ahead of a summer switch from Hannover 96.

Outages were reported in the English cities of Birmingham and Bristol and in Cardiff ... Snow and ice were also causing havoc in Germany, where a bout of wintry weather is spreading from the southwest. Authorities have issued black ice warnings for ...

Several major airports were forced to suspend flights as heavy snow and freezing rain caused widespread disruption across Europe on January 5 particularly in the UK and Germany

Manchester Airport said on Sunday morning that it had temporarily shut its runways due to heavy snow. In a post shared on social media, the airport said that staff members were on the ground to clear the snow from the runway,

He could well give Birmingham something different in the middle of the park with Paik Seung-Ho and Tomoki Iwata both similar in terms of their composed nature on the ball, whilst Maloney excels at doing more of the dirty work away from spraying the ball about competently.