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Chris Davies has responded directly to rumours that defensive duo Christoph Klarer and Phil Neumann don’t see eye-to-eye.

Neumann returned to Birmingham City's starting XI on Tuesday and produced a man of the match display alongside Klarer against Preston.

For the last few weeks, social media has been awash with speculation that the pair don’t get on after Neumann was dropped from the line-up. Davies has explained that Neumann’s five-game exclusion was due to him wanting to play with a left-footed centre-back.

So the Blues manager was surprised to face a question about Klarer and Neumann in the Q&A section of Wednesday night’s Open House at St Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park.

“Firstly, I hadn't heard that,” began Davies. “One of the good things that I've done is I don'

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