Ben Foster is in talks with Birmingham City after they agreed a deal with Manchester United, skysports.com can confirm.

Birmingham are in need of a new number one as loan-star Joe Hart is returning to Manchester City following his highly successful stint at St Andrews.

Blues boss Alex McLeish failed with his efforts to keep Hart for another 12-months and so turned his attentions to the red-half of Manchester, and has now agreed a deal with United for Foster.

It is understood Birmingham have agreed a fee in the region of £5million and that Foster is now in talks with the club.

England international Foster has seen his chances limited at United this term, which has cost him a place at the World Cup finals.

His agent Lee Payne has confirmed to skysports.com that his client is in talks with Birmingham.

"We are close to agreeing a deal," he told skysports.com.

"The two clubs have agreed a fee and given us permission to talk to Birmingham.

"We fully expect the deal to be completed either this weekend or the start of next week."

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He bottled his chances so not really sad to see him go. About time he got himself some first team football too. Should be a solid buy for Birmingham.

Nice.
He could have been good.
he didnt take his chances

Vishal16 wrote:

Nice.
He could have been good.
he didnt take his chances

He can't be good if he doesn't take his chances, can he?

COULD have been. IF he had taken his chances.

Well that's bollocks. I could have been a premier league player if I was good

Yes, thats the idea.

We need to think of replacing VDS? Dont we? Isnt it high time?

COuld you ass could

Aakarsh007 wrote:

We need to think of replacing VDS? Dont we? Isnt it high time?

He'll be pretty good for one more season I feel. We need to start looking though.

we wont buy a high class keeper now, as VDS wud be no.1 for the coming season

unitedrchampps wrote:

we wont buy a high class keeper now, as VDS wud be no.1 for the coming season

We should be buying someone who'll be prepared to gel with the team and learn from Van Der Sar for a year or so and then hold the post for many years in the future. Where do we find that guy?

joe hart

City won't sell him to us obviously

In FIFA, Smithies is a fabulous keeper. From Huddersfield. I know what you'll say though

Navpreet wrote:

In FIFA, Smithies is a fabulous keeper. From Huddersfield. I know what you'll say though

Bollocks.

Rahul wrote:

City won't sell him to us obviously

Really?

Yes

Joe Hart had the season of his career and I have a funny feeling that he ll want to forget every bit of the coming season.

we shall see

Buffon is an option,bt even he is gettin old

Buffon would give us a few good years. Certainly not a bad option.

Buffon = not a good option IMO.

Good keepers like Hugo Lloris, Rene Adler, Manuel Neuer would want first team action, but they might be options.

Navpreet wrote:

Buffon = not a good option IMO.

Good keepers like Hugo Lloris, Rene Adler, Manuel Neuer would want first team action, but they might be options.

Why not?

Too old and won't be cheap. That's why.

Navpreet wrote:

Too old and won't be cheap. That's why.

He's 32. We can easily get around 5-6 top years from him. Keepers can easily go on till 40. If not 40, 37-38 easily. Although yeah, he won't be cheap.

he is a bit over rated

Vishal16 wrote:

he is a bit over rated

Rubbish. He has been one of the top keepers in this world for ages.

He HAS been
he aint that good now,unless he proves me wrong in this WC

I don't think you've seen Juve play a single game this season.

They dont show those games on my cable