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SULLIVAN: I'M SELLING
STAY-AWAY FANS HAVE GIVEN HIM THE BLUES
James Nursey 15/02/2007
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DAVID SULLIVAN last night admitted he and the Gold brothers are ready to sell Birmingham City after revealing the club has cost him £10million in 14 years.
Sullivan and his co-owners at St Andrew's, David and Ralph Gold, have been left increasingly disillusioned by City's poor crowds despite the club lying third in the Championship.
Just 15,854 turned out for Sunday's 1-0 victory over Stoke and Sullivan has had enough of the doom and gloom after relegation last term.
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Sullivan, who lives in Essex, would like to sell his 40 per cent stake and reinvest the money in another club.
"Our gates are appalling and we are having a bad time," admitted the Welshman, who bought Brum in 1992 with the Golds.
"Very few bosses of companies survive 14 years and sometimes people just want a change because they get fed up with you.
"The travelling has been getting me down for some time and when people turn on you it is a bad day.
"Our ground is like a morgue and even when we get 25,000 there is a lack of atmosphere and I don't know what we can do to turn it around. I'll be involved with Birmingham until someone better comes along and if someone buys my 40 per cent then, under Stock Exchange rules, they then have to bid for all the shares.
"The Golds, who also own 40 per cent, have said they do not want to sell, but publicly and privately might be two different things.
"The reality is the travelling from near London tires them and then there's the feeling whatever you do for supporters isn't enough, which is hard when you have lost £10m in the club."
Sullivan plans to let kids in for £1 at Birmingham's home game with Cardiff on Sunday, March 4 and allow season tickets holders to bring friends for £5 to win over disgruntled fans complaining about prices.
But Sullivan concedes building bridges with Steve Bruce could be harder following defender Matthew Upson's sale to West Ham for £7.5m against the manager's wishes.
Asked about his relationship with Bruce, Sullivan replied: "Any person with any common sense would have sold Upson.
"He made it massively obvious he was very unhappy and could have left in the summer for just £900,000, but the manager never wants to sell anyone - all they want to do is buy players."
Upson made a personal plea to Sullivan to let him leave and has joined the Hammers on a bumper £45,000-a-week deal.
But Sullivan, who used to own shares in West Ham, thinks both Upson and the Upton Park outfit could regret the move if they are relegated following their recent £85m takeover by a consortium headed by Icelandic tycoon Eggert Magnusson.
Sullivan added: "West Ham has been purchased at an enormous price and I think there will be blood on the carpet in the Premiership.
"West Ham could have big problems if they went down.
I don't blame Upson for going but I don't think anyone else would give him £45,000 so a get-out clause may be worthless if they go down."
SULLIVAN: I'M SELLING
STAY-AWAY FANS HAVE GIVEN HIM THE BLUES
James Nursey 15/02/2007
* More Football
DAVID SULLIVAN last night admitted he and the Gold brothers are ready to sell Birmingham City after revealing the club has cost him £10million in 14 years.
Sullivan and his co-owners at St Andrew's, David and Ralph Gold, have been left increasingly disillusioned by City's poor crowds despite the club lying third in the Championship.
Just 15,854 turned out for Sunday's 1-0 victory over Stoke and Sullivan has had enough of the doom and gloom after relegation last term.
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Sullivan, who lives in Essex, would like to sell his 40 per cent stake and reinvest the money in another club.
"Our gates are appalling and we are having a bad time," admitted the Welshman, who bought Brum in 1992 with the Golds.
"Very few bosses of companies survive 14 years and sometimes people just want a change because they get fed up with you.
"The travelling has been getting me down for some time and when people turn on you it is a bad day.
"Our ground is like a morgue and even when we get 25,000 there is a lack of atmosphere and I don't know what we can do to turn it around. I'll be involved with Birmingham until someone better comes along and if someone buys my 40 per cent then, under Stock Exchange rules, they then have to bid for all the shares.
"The Golds, who also own 40 per cent, have said they do not want to sell, but publicly and privately might be two different things.
"The reality is the travelling from near London tires them and then there's the feeling whatever you do for supporters isn't enough, which is hard when you have lost £10m in the club."
Sullivan plans to let kids in for £1 at Birmingham's home game with Cardiff on Sunday, March 4 and allow season tickets holders to bring friends for £5 to win over disgruntled fans complaining about prices.
But Sullivan concedes building bridges with Steve Bruce could be harder following defender Matthew Upson's sale to West Ham for £7.5m against the manager's wishes.
Asked about his relationship with Bruce, Sullivan replied: "Any person with any common sense would have sold Upson.
"He made it massively obvious he was very unhappy and could have left in the summer for just £900,000, but the manager never wants to sell anyone - all they want to do is buy players."
Upson made a personal plea to Sullivan to let him leave and has joined the Hammers on a bumper £45,000-a-week deal.
But Sullivan, who used to own shares in West Ham, thinks both Upson and the Upton Park outfit could regret the move if they are relegated following their recent £85m takeover by a consortium headed by Icelandic tycoon Eggert Magnusson.
Sullivan added: "West Ham has been purchased at an enormous price and I think there will be blood on the carpet in the Premiership.
"West Ham could have big problems if they went down.
I don't blame Upson for going but I don't think anyone else would give him £45,000 so a get-out clause may be worthless if they go down."