Birmingham City go head-to-head to sign Charlton’s Golden Boot winner Alfie May – South London News

Charlton striker Alfie May looks set to join Birmingham City.

The Addicks frontman, who won the League One Golden Boot last season, has been a top target for Huddersfield Town.

But Birmingham, looking to bounce back from relegation to the Championship, entered negotiations and South London Press understands they have made a bid that outbid the Terriers’ offer for May, who scored 27 goals in all competitions last season.

May, who turns 31 on Wednesday, looks set to sign a three-year deal with the Blues.

Charlton were already intent on bringing in at least one striker during the transfer window and that will surely become two if May, signed from Cheltenham Town for £250,000 last summer, completes a move.

His former club will also be owed a share of the fee as part of the sale negotiated when the leader made the move to SE7.

Charlton manager Nathan Jones told our newspaper last week that he was under no financial pressure to cash in May.

He said: “If for whatever reason Alfie May leaves this football club then we need to have players coming into the squad who will make this football club significantly better.

“I have no financial pressure or any pressure from the board or the club to do anything.

“That’s why I came here – to have that autonomy to make the right decisions for the football club, to be bold and really ask the board to support that. And they have, at all levels. We are not under pressure. We are a big football club in that sense.”

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