Not sure transfer speculation in the newspapers can be used as an indication on a club’s strategy.

I doubt you’ll find many blues fans who think the club are under a cloud. Lee Clark has been told he doesn’t have to sell any more players and the club is generating enough money to sustain itself. The holding company has issues and certainly Carson Yeung is up the creek and looking like he’ll do some porridge, but BCFC have proved to the Football League they can survive without BIH interest. Thanks to the ground work by Chris Houghton, Lee Clark has a great platform to work from and the blues fans are behind him and the team!

That has got to be the biggest pile of utter bilge I have ever, ever read.  And I really do mean that.  Who on EARTH does Mike Calvin think he is to spout such utter guff - tosh that amounts to little more than thinly-disguised knocks at both West Ham AND Birmingham, under the heading of “expert” opinion???

It would be laughable, if it weren’t for the fact that it really is so unbelievably sad.

Appalling.

i would think as far as Manchester United are concerned Ravel Morrison is hitstory .He had several chances at one of the biggest club’s in the world to improve and correct his off the field stupidity . As he was clearly a youngster with a huge amount of promise and potential although totally un- fulfilled at our great club .The manager persevered with Ravel , hoping he would get his head straight to recognise it’s not just football ability , it’s also a need to recognise you need to keep working hard . Sir Alex Ferguson was correct in letting him leave for the Iron’s , as he could see the potential damage that could be done, to the group as a whole , by retaining Ravel on the United books .
I understand he has even been sent home from West Ham’s summer tour for acting bizzarely  and requiring 7 teeth to be extracted back in England . So it would appear his personal hygiene is not up to scratch either at a young age.
It’s all just a dreadfull shame for a youngster who had the world at his feet if he had just kept his head down , and learnt his trade alongside the great professionals at Manchester United.
I partially blame the media for this ! . Talking up young football players in term’s such as stars , for them to read and hear this . It’s bound to affect their attitude and ambition . Lead them to believe they have ‘ made it ‘.
As I don’t have a bad bone in my body , I can only wish Ravel Morrison all the best at the ‘ blue’s ‘ on his year – long loan . And hope he gets more game time than 14 minutes against Leed’s United ,than he did with West Ham .
After Manchester United , there is generally only one way , you career will go that is down . The obvious exception Cristiano Ronaldo .
Take not Paul Pogba at juventus.

have to agree with other posters this article is factually incorrect and ill informed. blues are not under any cloud in fact the club have already said that its trading at a profit for this year and we dont need to sell anyone.
my advise to you mate would be to get your facts right 

Unfortunately Michael you haven’t done your homework on Birmingham’s situation. The finances are now steady, they do NOT have to cash in on Butland and their squad is settled, there’s a fine atmosphere around the club and among the fans and they will be a serious contender for promotion. Yeung’s situation no longer makes any difference and new owners will be in to replace him within months.

Mike Calvin is a Millwall Fan FACT!! This is why he continually has digs at West Ham and will also dig at Brimingham because there fans gave Milwall a good hiding a few years back that was well publiscised.

He is washed up and in fact why does his posts continue to be read when they contain nothing but facts that he makes up in his head, it’s a bit like his media career non existant apart from these unfactual comments of his own personal view that he makes on this website continuosly.

He should be more worried about the satate of his beloved Milwall than clubs of a stature that they will never be. I am a West Ham fan granted but know the when golivan sold out to young thta they were the only premier league club to break even that year so where as MC states has there financial woes come from??

Come on Mike Get a life and do some real journalistic work rather than picking up pieces of pointless information from other journalist’s stories and one you have dreamt about.

Errrrrr expert pmsl one that doesn’t know his ass from his earhole. Go and report on tiddlywinks.

You know what me eastender  mate . To call someone  ” washed up “  is very unfair . I quite like this forum , it’s provided some great fun and lively debate, in the past and I’m sure it will in the future . What I can’t understand  re- reading the thread , one Birmingham City fan made the point about the disagreement with Mike’s assessment  of the financial situation at St Andrews .The rest of the ‘ pack – Wolves ‘ then have to repeat the same laboured point .
I’m not defended Mike Calvin , he would be more than capable of doing that himself , but to expect a ‘ journalist ‘ to respond to each little barbed dig at his integrity is not going to happen . They provide the base of the discussion . We debate as fan’s over the ‘ material ‘ provided .What I mean , is small time bloggers don’t even comment on peoples posts , in the main . I have seen a few columnist’s on the Bleacher Report , join in with the contributiors and it always makes for a lively friendly forum.Ed Barker on the fabulous United Rant’ does join in also in his forum. I would disagree with you Mike also  airs his views on national mediums like Talk Sport radio station , as an example. . Any occasion  I have heard Mike speaking he is always a great listen and informative.
The point is I always think never shoot the messenger in a personal way . Shoot the arguement down by providing your own fact’s . Note the key point  ” Facts ” .
I suppose you could write your own blog , Wozzie . if it contain’s as much information as your profile , that would be a snooze – fest.
I apologise for my intial post , the  mis- spelling and the grammar is shocking. Anyhow I have work to do , thought I would just look back and see how it had developed .
By the way points marked up to me doesn’t mean anything to me , what is in my profile and my fairminded nature does!
Cheer’s. As i say just thought i would add my ‘ thoughts’ on Ravel Morrison . Work to do.

How exactly do west ham lack a clear sense of direction? The owners have stabilised the club, significantly reduced debts they inherited, built a squad capable of getting out of the championship at the first time of asking and have now began showing a sense of ambition to sign international quality players and move into a 60000 capacity stadium in the next few years.
What is a cohesive strategy to stay in the premier league? Please elaborate as that’s just a non-sense. Qpr, swansea and Norwich all stayed up, but there was no ‘cohesive strategy’ to qpr’s survival apart from having the luck that there were 3 teams even more abysmal than them despite their elaborate spending in the transfer windows.

 ”lack a clear sense of direction and are burdened by an exaggerated sense of expectation” – I dare you to tell Brady that face to face – what a turnip – hey there are more than 4 clubs in the country – with gobshites like you around we’d have a league made up of Chelsea, Arsenal, Man U and Man C – why have Liverpool and Spurs etc…the lack a clear sense of direction and are burdened by an exaggerated sense of expectation. What a complete doughnut

Any news on his teeth!!!!

Looks like Ray Winstone’s dad…but the shocked look on his face is telling…’oh dear, I got to think of something to write!!’

mike you seem too know nothing think i would make a better reporter than you . i dont know who hired you but they should probably go for someone new and young because your the biggest waste of money and time 

West Ham lack a sense of direction? Are you talking out of your ass constantly? West Ham are a team on the up..All your articles are just blasting West Ham, cos your a jealous Millwall fan. Instead of constantly bitching about West Ham, try and find a story that actually makes sense, instead of one you make up in your head. Morrison has gone on loan because he will get experience in the Championship and is too big a risk to play in the PL right now. Now, go away back to your den and try to find something people actually care about