Sullivan Promises Spending Spree

Last updated : 18 February 2007 By Brian Cartlidge

"We will throw some big money around if we go up," the Blues co-owner told the Sunday Mirror newspaper.

"There's a big pie [TV money] you get a slice of and we're not carrying a lot of baggage from previous years.

"We've got very few high-earners and we will have the capacity to sign four or five players on huge wages and pay huge transfer fees. We'll be looking to do that.

"We spent a lot of money on wages but didn't have a lot left when we went down. A lot of it went on players who we could walk away from but who were supposed to keep us up. They didn't do that."

"We are going to aggressively acquire a lot of good young players in the summer. Hopefully they will be the future of Birmingham City.

"But we had an awful lot of players injured last year and we'll be looking much closer at people's medical history than before.

"If we spend the money wisely and luckily we could be very competitive."