"Millions and millions" - Kwame Poku transfer claim issued as Birmingham City line up £30k-p/w contract | OneFootball

Birmingham City are reportedly closing in on the signing of Kwame Poku, who is expected to still go for a hefty fee via a tribunal.

Peterborough United chairman Darragh MacAnthony expects Kwame Poku to depart for "millions and millions" this summer despite his contract coming to an end, with Birmingham City pursuing the Ghanaian.

Poku is out of contract at Posh this summer and has been rumoured to be moving to St. Andrew's, with Football League World recently exclusively revealing that the League One champions are set to offer the attacker a £30,000 per week contract.

The Croydon-born ex-Colchester United winger, who has one cap for the Ghanaian national team, has had a bit of an injury-hit 2024/25 campaign and has still been named in this season’s League One Team of the Season, as well as winning back-to-back League One Player of the Month awards in September and October before winning Peterborough’s Players’ Player of the Season.

Peterborough United: Darragh MacAnthony reveals Kwame Poku transfer fee expectation

Poku, albeit out of contract, will still cost Birmingham a compensation fee set by a tribunal as he remains under the age of 24, and Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony has claimed that fee will be a hefty one.

Speaking on his podcast ‘Hard Truth’, MacAnthony has explained why he expects Peterborough to receive a sizeable sum for their prized asset.

“There are many things a tribunal takes into account when setting a transfer fee," MacAnthony said.

"The offers we have already had are part of that as are his appearances, his goals, the contract offer we have made him and what we have paid in transfer fees ourselves, so we will still get millions and millions for him.”

MacAnthony also divulged the transfer fee that Peterborough initially shelled out to bring him in from Colchester in the summer transfer window of 2021.

“We spent £250,000 on him initially, plus half a million in add-ons since then," Macanthony added.

Peterborough have been attempting to tie Poku down throughout the season and they made a big offer to him earlier this season but MacAnthony has accepted that he is destined for what he believes will be a big money move to the top-flight at some stage.

“We did make him a club record offer, but he knows it’s time for him to go to the next level," the Irishman said.

"Kwame probably won’t go to the Premier League straight away but he will get a high-end Championship club. He will be a Premier League star in the future and that next move will probably cost £30 million.”

Peterborough United losing Kwame Poku is no surprise - they're a great stepping stone

Throughout their time yo-yo-ing up and down the EFL in the last decade and a half or so, Peterborough have always marked themselves out as a selling club and that is something that the United chairman is comfortable with.

“It will have been a pleasure to have had him for four years but he will leave with our best wishes," MacAnthony exclaimed.

"Fans should stop worrying about players leaving for betting things as it’s the law of the jungle, the nature of the beast and new heroes will come in.”

Last season, having suffered a play-off semi-final loss to Oxford United a year after a play-off semi-final loss to Sheffield Wednesday in remarkable circumstances, Peterborough lost several key first-team players such as Josh Knight, Harrison Burrows, Ephron Mason-Clark and Jonson Clarke-Harris.

This season has been a difficult one with Darren Ferguson at the helm but they improved in the second-half of the campaign, becoming the first team to ever defend the EFL Trophy title with a defeat of Birmingham at Wembley Stadium.