Due to Birmingham City’s tremendous ambition, there is a lot of squad turnover, and occasionally newly acquired players don’t make the kind of effect that was anticipated.

This summer, the Blues added 14 players to a roster that many believed was strong enough to at least place in the middle of the Championship. At St Andrew’s, the competition for spots is fiercer than ever, and certain players have simply not been in Chris Davies’ immediate plans.

Birmingham will likely want to bolster their roster once more in January as they aim to move up the table, but doing so will require them to let rid of even more underperforming players.

Two players that Jason Moore, FLW’s Blues fan pundit, believes will be leaving in the coming months are his predictions.

According to a Birmingham City supporter, Lyndon Dykes and Kanya Fujimoto are two players who may depart the team in January.

When asked who he thought will be let go in the forthcoming winter transfer window by Football League World, Birmingham City Moore’s Lyndon Dykes didn’t waste any time in responding.

“There are two dead easy answers to this question,” he stated. “Lyndon Dykes is someone I believe will go.

“But I think if you were to say someone else, you’d say Kanya Fujimoto.”

Dykes appeared to be a sure bet because the Scotsman was almost ready to leave the team on September’s Deadline Day.

SPL side Hibernian were interested in bringing the 30-year-old back to Scotland for the first time since his Livingston days in 2020, but talks broke down after it was revealed that Birmingham wanted Hibs to pay the majority of his wages.

It wouldn’t be shocking if Dykes looked to go again when the transfer market opened, given that he has mostly played as a bench option for Chris Davies this season.

In contrast to Fujimoto, who joined the team on a free transfer this summer after his contract at Gil Vicente expired, Dykes can at least claim that he has been a bench option. However, Fujimoto has only played one minute of league action thus far.

“Fujimoto has come in expecting to play, and he hasn’t been fancied by Chris Davies at all,” Moore went on.

“He came from the Portuguese league and hasn’t had a look in for whatever reason; he has looked a little lightweight to be fair.

“So Lyndon Dykes is purely due to his summer move and the fact he hasn’t played much football since, and Fujimoto is probably going to go too, because Davies just does not fancy him at all.”

Gil Vicente’s Kanya Fujimoto’s summer relocation is turning out to be quite puzzling.

Whilst Dykes may have felt aggrieved at not being able to move to Hibs this summer, at least the Scottish frontman had chipped in here and there with a couple of important goals for Birmingham this season.

In Fujimoto’s case, the 26-year-old hasn’t had an opportunity to.

Other than a start in the Blues’ EFL Cup loss to Port Vale, in which he was hooked at half-time, the former Japanese U20 international has made just one cameo appearance for Chris Davies’ side against Sheffield Wednesday in the 2-2 draw at St Andrew’s.

Fujimoto has been an unused substitute in seven separate Championship games this season, and, off the back of four consecutive Liga Portugal campaigns, where he made more than 30 appearances for Gil Vicente, his drastic drop in game time has been a real shock.

Perhaps Davies will keep the 26-year-old around for squad depth purposes, but Fujimoto will likely want to get back to playing football, and if Birmingham continues to add to their side this January, it’ll be difficult to see where those appearances are coming from.