{"id":640477,"date":"2026-06-15T20:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640477\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:55:11","slug":"jhon-solis-birmingham-city-sign-girona-midfielder-on-four-year-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640477\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhon Solis: Birmingham City sign Girona midfielder on four-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham City have signed midfielder Jhon Solis from Spanish side Girona for an undisclosed fee on a four-year deal, subject to clearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old will officially join Blues on July 1, having impressed on a loan spell with the Championship club during the second half of last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colombia-born Solis made 18 appearances in all competitions, scoring once, as the club finished 10th in the Championship &#8211; their highest-league finish for a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After exercising a clause in the loan agreement with the Spanish side, Solis becomes Chris Davies&#8217; first signing of the summer transfer window. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ball-winning midfielder began his career in Colombia with Atl\u00e9tico Nacional, helping the side win domestic honours in successive seasons before earning a move to La Liga side Girona in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Solis went on to make 61 appearances in all competitions for Girona, including five appearances in the UEFA Champions League against the likes of Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool and Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City have signed midfielder Jhon Solis from Spanish side Girona for an undisclosed fee on a four-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}