Huddersfield owner Kevin Nagle wants to ditch Birmingham City over Alfie May transfer

Huddersfield Town owner Kevin Nagle has cryptically suggested Birmingham City paid over the odds to sign Alfie May from Charlton.

May looked set to join Huddersfield for much of the summer and reunite with his former Cheltenham Town boss Michael Duff before the Blues dumped the Terriers. Personal terms and a three-year contract were quickly agreed to make last season’s League One Golden Boot winner a Blues player.

The Blues have not only signed the most prolific striker in the third tier for the last three seasons, they have also pounced on two of their promotion rivals. They weakened Charlton’s attacking arsenal and sent Huddersfield back to the drawing board in search of a striker.

And their president, the American businessman Nagle, discussed the one that got away. He said: “We’ve had some targets and we’ve got them all but one.”

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Without naming the Blues or May, Nagle added: “I will say this much, the club that took him, they didn’t even think about him four days before. What I’m impressed with them is that they were actually watching what we were doing. They actually targeted at least one, maybe two other players that we signed. I was impressed that that club was looking at our recruitment team and seeing what kind of moves we were making.

“We will not pay what that person received. There have been a lot of rumors about him and 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 when you see what his history was. Maybe he will turn out to be great and I hope he will – just not against Town.”

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