Yeung still wants Blues

Carson Yeung’s right-hand man Sammy Yu has insisted the Hong Kong businessman is still interested in taking full control of relegated Birmingham.

Yeung is the club’s leading individual shareholder after buying an initial 29.9 per cent  stake in City last summer. 

But he never followed through his plan to completely buy out chairman David Gold and co-owner David Sullivan. Gold claimed the uncertainty surrounding Yeung’s plans cost them the services of manager Steve Bruce in November. 

But Yu says Yeung is still keen to buy the club outright, although it may prove difficult to persuade Gold and Sullivan to sell to him after the events of last season. Yu said: “Hopefully one day we can take the club over. We thought that if we get involved in the club at least for some time, then we can take over and guarantee that nothing will go wrong. 

“But then when an article appeared in a Birmingham match programme saying that Mr Sullivan would not deal with Mr Yeung, it made us feel disappointed because it was not even close to the so-called deadline to buy the club outright. 

“We have been very polite but they have been quite unreasonable. We didn’t ask for anything nor have we done anything to hurt the club.”