Yeung still interested in control of Birmingham City

Carson Yeung's aides insist the Hong Kong businessman still covets control of English Birmingham City, despite the stall out in a takeover last year.

Yeung is the club's leading individual shareholder with 29.9 percent, which cost him GBP 15 million. But he was supposed to follow up with an overall takeover.

He never did, missing deadline after deadline until co-owners David Gold and David Sullivan tired of Yeung's act.

Yeung aide Sammy Yu said Yeung still wants to but the club outright.

"Hopefully one day we can take the club over," Yu said to the Telegraph. "We thought that if we get involved in the club at least for some time, then we can take over and guarantee that nothing will go wrong.

"But then when an article appeared in a Birmingham match programme saying that Mr. Sullivan would not deal with Mr. Yeung, it made us feel disappointed because it was not even close to the so-called deadline to buy the club outright.

"We have been very polite but they have been quite unreasonable. We didn't ask for anything nor have we done anything to hurt the club. All we have done is support the club."

Yu's timing is interesting as Gold and Sullivan were publicly castigated during the final match of the season by fans tired of seeing the club falter.

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