The U’s, who followed the Blues back into the Championship at the end of last season thanks to their play-off final victory against Bolton, are reported to have broken their long-standing transfer record to seal a permanent move for the former Bournemouth and Peterborough United ace.
The Oxford Mail claim Birmingham valued the versatile attacker at between £1-1.5m. The previous highest fee the Kassam Stadium outfit had paid for a player was the £650,000 they splashed on Motherwell winger Marvin Johnson in 2016.
Just like the fee, the length of contract Dembele has signed is officially undisclosed. But what is known is the fact that the former Premier League winger is manager Des Buckingham’s 15th signing of the summer – which is one more transfer than what Pompey have completed ahead of Friday’s deadline (11pm).
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