Exclusive: Birmingham City chairman David Gold is optimistic

Jun 10 2009 By Andy Walker

DAVID Gold insists Alex McLeish’s summer rebuilding at Birmingham City is on schedule.

While the chairman doesn’t want to get too carried away with the work being done behind closed doors, he admits he is ‘quietly optimistic’ about the plans in place.

The club transfer record has already been broken with the acquisition of Ecuador striker Christian Benitez last week and Blues have been notably busy with their search for centre-half reinforcements, having already had bids for Coventry’s Scott Dann and Cardiff’s Roger Johnson rejected.

All in all, Blues aren’t wasting any time in attempting to assemble a squad capable of keeping them in the Premier League next season.

Although he experienced a similar situation with Hibernian in Scotland, this is the first time McLeish has spent a summer preparing for life in the English top flight.

And Gold insists that both manager and board are working in harmony to ensure next season is a success.