Leonard had two spells on loan to Northampton Town before joining City 18 months ago. <\/p>\n
His most recent appearance was on New Years Day, when he came off the bench in their 3-0 away defeat by Watford.<\/p>\n
Half of his 64 appearances overall have been off the bench as the Scot has found it more difficult to secure a starting place after promotion to the Championship, where Birmingham lie 13th.<\/p>\n
Hearts are without the suspended Beni Baningime for Sunday’s crucial Scottish Premiership match, with fellow midfielder Cammy Devlin out for up to two months with a lower leg injury.<\/p>\n
Leonard’s arrival strengthens Hearts’ midfield options and comes after Forest Green Rovers manager Robbie Savage confirmed his club had rejected a bid for Laurent Mendy from the Tynecastle outfit.<\/p>\n
“Every minute I’ve worked with him, he’s brilliant and that’s why Hearts made an offer, but it didn’t meet the club’s valuation,” Savage told club media. <\/p>\n
“I think now Hearts have moved on. I’m sure the lure of Hearts – top of the Scottish Premiership – must have been a real attractive pull for a player who’s 29. <\/p>\n
“I’m not naive enough to think a player in his situation won’t be tempted by that. I can’t speak for Mendy, but a team like Hearts with the possibility of winning the league and getting into the Champions League, it would have been an unbelievable opportunity for an unbelievable player. <\/p>\n
“Inevitably, if a valuation is not met, the club will decide what happens.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leonard had two spells on loan to Northampton Town before joining City 18 months ago. His most recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-429705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}