Wagner: Blues ready to REV up financial plans

BLUES owner Tom Wagner believes the club will have the largest revenues of any Championship club not to be in receipt of parachute payments next season.

- DAVE POWELL

Blues earned promotion to English football's second tier this season, clinching the League One title with games to spare, with Wagner, who owns the club through his Knighthead Capital Management firm, and minority owner, NFL legend Tom Brady, dreaming of a tilt at returning to the Premier League in the near future.

Another rung on the ladder climbed, Birmingham have ambitions to grow revenue significantly this coming year, with commercial revenue growth at the heart of that, while the forthcoming Amazon Prime Video documentary that will chart the club's promotion-winning season where they saw off the Hollywood success story of Wrexham, aimed at growing Birmingham in the US market in the same way that the Welsh side achieved with their 'Welcome to Wrexham' series.

The Blues won't be the heaviest hitters in the Championship next season, with the likes of Leicester City, Southampton and Ipswich Town all coming down and in receipt of parachute payments from the top flight.