Birmingham City: David Sullivan hits back at Carson Yeung
David Sullivan
“Also, and this is a matter of public record because as a plc we had to issue statements, we had to loan the club £5 million last July because there wasn’t enough money to pay the bills and buy players.
“Throughout the year the directors often have to subsidise a football club.
“I’m just angered by all this, we have done nothing wrong at all, and I felt I had to speak out.”
Sullivan said Yeung’s camp would have completed adequate due diligence anyway and admitted that he wasn’t entirely sure why the new guard apparently seemed comfortable with such knocking stories surfacing.
He suspected: “Maybe they don’t want to spend the £40 million, and it’s part of the excuse. But then there would still be £34 million to spend.”
Sullivan defended Brady and the ‘golden goodbye’ he was party to signing-off.
The use of a St Andrew’s executive box for 12 months, a company car, mobile phone and health care particularly annoyed Yeung.
“It’s not as lucrative as people say, that’s the first thing,” he claimed. “Her salary was way below a commensurate rate for someone in the Premier League who had been in her position for 16-and-a-half years.
“We didn’t add anything onto her contract, nothing changed in the last two years, the parts of her contract they knew all about.
“Maybe they don’t think it’s very nice, maybe they don’t think it’s perfect for the club, but she didn’t want to work for them and she was within her rights not to work for them.”
Sullivan added: “They should concentrate on January, that’s far more important, because decisions have to be made in January.
“I don’t want to tell them how to run their business, and I do wish them all the best and I hope they make the club successful.
“But when we get attacked like this there’s disappointment and I’ve felt angered by it after what we did; in our time the club was a model to all football clubs in the country.”
Yeung and Blues have been made aware of Sullivan's comments and were today considering a response.
