but was suddenly recalled by his parent club on 20 September. First-team debut with Birmingham City Bell was given a squad number, and was considered for a defensive role ahead of Birmingham's third round League Cup match against Swansea City on 25 September, with Kyle Bartley ineligible and David Murphy rested after returning only recently from long-term injury. He played no part in the match, not even as an unused substitute, and returned to Nuneaton a couple of days later. Bell re-established himself at left back, playing a further eleven times in the Conference Premier and once in the FA Cup, before Birmingham recalled him again on 9 December after starting left-back Mitch Hancox damaged a knee and with Murphy again unfit. He was included among the substitutes for Birmingham's next match, a 2–0 win away to AFC Bournemouth, but remained unused. Bell made his first-team debut on 28 January 2014, starting at left back against Championship leaders Leicester City as a late replacement for Hancox who had injured an ankle. He played the whole of the 2–1 defeat. More loan spells That was his last first-team appearance before he joined Conference Premier club Kidderminster Harriers on 6 March 2014, on a youth loan until the end of the season. For the second time that season, he made his club debut in a win against Macclesfield, on this occasion as a stoppage-time substitute as Kidderminster held on to a 2–1 lead. On 15 April, he scored his first goal in senior football to open the scoring in a 2–0 win against Cambridge United. Ahead of the 2014–15 season, Bell signed for League Two club Mansfield Town on loan until January 2015, but was recalled only three matches into the campaign having failed to get any playing time. On 26 September 2014, he joined Swindon Town of League One on a youth loan until 3 January 2015. He hoped to regain self-belief by playing matches as part of a confident team, and went straight into the starting eleven for Swindon's 3–0 win away to Barnsley. Bell started six matches during October, displacing Liverpool loanee Brad Smith, but then lost his place to another loanee, Harry Toffolo, and for the remainder of his time with the club was used mainly as a late substitute or not at all. In March 2015, Bell joined League One Gillingham on loan until the end of