Birmingham City Snub, Huddersfield Owner Speaks Out After Alfie May Deal

• The Terriers looked set to add 23/24 League One top scorer Alfie May to their squad this summer, with a reported £750,000 deal being agreed with Charlton Athletic.

That move never happened though, as fellow relegated side Birmingham City swooped in at the eleventh hour to hijack the deal, and make him theirs for the season ahead.

The Blues were said to offer the Addicks £775,000 to make the former Cheltenham Town man theirs, with Terriers chief Kevin Nagle outlining in a recent video diary on his X account.

Nagle said: ““I’ll say this much. The club that got him, they weren’t even thinking about him four days before that.

• “I think what I’m impressed with is they’re kind of watching what we were doing. They actually targeted at least one, maybe two other players that we did sign. I’ve been impressed by the fact that that club is looking at our recruitment team, and seeing what kind of moves we’re making.

“What I’m going to say is we’re not going to pay what that person got paid. There were a lot of rumours that went out on it, I’m not going to validate that, but it’s not fair to our players in the locker room.

“He was paid an extraordinary amount, if you look to see what his history was, it just didn’t make [sense]. Now maybe he’ll turn out to be great, and I hope he does, just not against Town.”