He said ‘Named team in Birmingham’ not ‘Main team in Birmingham’. You’ve just had a lengthy convo about something you misheard.

He never said they were the main team in Birmingham. False conversation

Why would any pop star want to go small heath 😂😂😂😂 especially when Villa park is down the road haha

As a Villa fan i would like see the Blue Noses in the Premier League. This second city has grossly under-performed other areas of the country. The council has to take some blame in not making the city a much more attractive place to live in order to attract the better players and management

‘Named team’ NOT ‘Main team’

Wayne Rooney. Manager of the Season..

He’s talking about a multi purpose stadium which could hold international matches nfl matches pop and rock concerts as well as being home to Birmingham City fc you have to look at the bigger picture and this will take 5years to complete if you don’t have ambition and drive what’s the point

Honestly the Rooney appointment was as dumb as it was predictable.

Blues fan . I agree with simon . It wont be a total diisaster it will be sad day to go down but we are hardened to disappointment and we will roar them back up while the owners sort the future out for us . Its amazing we have this chance of success even though we may need to wait a little . We havent had hope for more than 10 years . Now we have KRO ( who knows we might sneak a couple of results )

The owners were very respectful to Villa I thought, and said we would like to be up there with them so not sure what ur problem is. It took an American to realise the potential of this club and his vision is long term.

As a bluenose I woke up extremely disheartened this morning after our abysmal performance last night and the perilous position we find ourselves in, in the league table. The mixture of disappear over our current predicament and optimism over our long term future and the new stadium that will be built is very jarring.

As an American I can’t stand American owners in European football leagues, I watch football because it is very different to American sports and all those owners want to change that

All in all these new American owners/fans don't understand football or its culture. They're not franchises like in the NFL and fans don't swap allegiances at the drop of a hat. Supporting a club is a generational thing, it can be an identity, the passion for your club no matter which players come and go isn't negotiable, they'll never understand that side of English football culture.

Might be good for a reset for BCFC. Surviving each season means the underlying foundations aren't right. Take a hit and build the foundation of a team through youth and good scouting. Teams like Brighton and Bournemouth have set examples of getting to the promised land.

Wtf does Jim White know. Slating a club who are showing ambition.

Who is Jim White and what has he ever done to mean he can pronounce "ex cathedra" as though he were the all knowing one? You don't get to be a top man in finance in the states, without knowing how to back up your words with actions. That doesn't mean these people never make a mistake, it means that when they make one they learn from it. If you had said 30 years ago that the big team in Manchester wouldn't be United people would have laughed, but now? Blues have not got such a big gap to close, there is a massive support base just waiting for something good to happen to Birmingham, it may not happen today, but give it time.

Birmingham City could be a great club. With a new stadium at Bordesley. It would be a great asset to the city.

The Simon & Laurence Bassini show coming 2025

The Blues owner should be more concerned about his team dropping into the third tier of English football instead of making ridiculous claims about overtaking Villa. Also getting out of League 1 isn’t easy just ask fans of Portsmouth, Derby, Sunderland, Charlton, Bolton, Reading and Wigan.

I'll love it when blues get relegated, but i'd love it more if they made it to the premier league again. 2nd city derby is an experience i miss. UTV

A hotel in small heath as a tourist destination 🙄 🙄 🤭 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Whilst Simon is right about City dropping down - and look at them now, sadly for Birmingham the FFP/PSR regulations put in place because the cartel don't want another City or Chelsea challenging means Birmingham won't be able to 'do a City'!

Fair play simon 👏 thought u had it in for us ,but youve talked sence and can see were massive now especially bigger than villa

Birmingham City business zone offence and sports quarter defence

This aged well😂😂

The new owners have been in place for less than a year. In that time, they have concentrated (mainly) on the infrastructure of the club that wasn't there under any of our other owners, ever. What people aren't seeing is the foundations the owners are putting in place, both structurally and financially. Prior to Knighthead, the club was losing an average of £400k a week, and was over £120m in debt. That's gone, and apart from the teams with parachute payments, they're on track to have the highest revenue in the division. That will be put into players this summer once FFP regulations reset. The work on the pitch starts in earnest next season, the bulk of what they've done already doesn't make the sports pages, so people just see the results and think they know everything. Keep doubting them, Blues fans meanwhile, will do what we always do, and Keep Right On.

We are in the same standard as the Shrewsburys and Crewe’s

Sick to death of hearing "it's all Roomey's fault" . I'm no Rooney fan, never wanted him but the facts are that the majority wanted Eustace out the week before he eventually went after we got battered at Norwich. The football was woeful. Yet as we then beat a woeful Huddersfield and had a fortunate win against WBA all that was forgotten. The reason we are going down actually has little to do with Rooney, he was there for less than a third of the season. We are going down because we are useless up front and hopeless at the back. All we have in the striking dept are Jutkiewicz, Hogan and Stansfield (who isn't a CF). Rooney said from day 1 that we needed strengthening in the Jan window. He didn't get the chance. I'm certain he would have signed strikers and a decent CB. What did Tony do? Signed 3 more midfielders to add to the 14 we already had and let Kevin Long (our only decent CB) leave for Toronto. We played 4-2-3-1 last night, that's 5 midfielders. On the bench we had 1 keeper, 1 RB, 1 striker and 6 midfielders. Add to that the 1st team players not in yesterday's match day squad consisted of 1 CB, 1 LB, 2 CM's, 3 wingers and Jutkiewicz. The balance of the squad is why we're going down, that's not Rooney's doing, that's on Eustace, Tony & Craig Gardner. The only tactic we've used all year is to keep swapping midfielders and the full-backs around and hope. We don't score goals and concede loads (usually in the last 5mins). That's why we're going down.

As a villa fan,i love matchday vs blues but the fans and owners are delusional,their stadium is crumbling like a cadbury flake thats been stamped on.

Birmingham is definitely a City that will grow a lot over the next 15 years.... Solid plan.... But as a Football club it depends on his football staff....

If u think U come straight bk up from L1 if u get relegated. Other teams will tell u it's not easy Ipswich Bolton Portsmouth ( near the end 7 yrs being in L1)Sunderland spent some time getting out Charlton derby 2.

5 to 10 year plan broaden the income base investor over football priority

Solihull Moors FC is the team to follow, forget the Blouse.

Spot on Simon.Without a positive vision there is a downward trajectory .

The vast majority of Birmingham suburbs support Villa. This will all fall on it’s head.

Simon jordan makes a statement then does not come to any coclusion,the fan said b'ham city cant compete villa,then jordan chats complete bullocks.

Tom Brady said we would get this negativity believe Kro

We need villa vs blues back.. it’s such a sleeping giant..

Not a Birmingham fan, but they do have huge potential. And are massive historical underachievers. One of the top 10, though? Not sure about that one. The so called ‘big six’ plus Everton, Villa, Newcastle, and lastly Leeds, would fill those spots. But top 15, is more accurate and fair. They should be bigger than Leicester. And we all know what they’ve achieved. Not to mention Wolves and (despite their past European history) Forest too.

Wolves,Leeds,Man City, Blackburn and Charlton to name a few, all deep dived from the PL to League 1. Its how you recover that matters. It can take 20 years.

As a Villa fan, id like to see West Midlands clubs doing well. However, Im not hearing football, I'm hearing pop concerts.?? WTF???

These new owners have made mistakes but they have ambition so in Tom we trust.

This is stupid , every Villa fan wants the 2nd city derby with the Blues .... they would have one of the best midfielders in the world now had they not sold Jude Bellingham , and that's good for Villa, competition will progress us , they've got some way to go but I hope Blues get some investment

Simon Jordan , put White in his place 👍

If anything it was a compliment , at least we now have some ambition instead of treading water !

Our neighbours are a funny little club 🤣

Looks like more concerts before the game to fill it

In other words - 'Resorts World FC' is coming to a second city near you...

2nd time heard stockport county mentioned on talksport! Hopefully stockport vs Birmingham soon I'd rather play you in championship though 😊

Tom Wagner didn't once mention Villa in that interview.

This sounds very much like what SISU told Coventry fans before the destruction began. Birmingham City FC are now pawns in a development and land battle.

the owners decision making so far doesn't bold well for them being able to pull off this ambitious vision. i'd say the whole scheme is dependent upon the NFL creating a European conference rather than BCFC.

They're not even the main team in Small Heath!

Utter hyperbole over something that was never said! You clearly never watched the Open House, Jim. Educate yourself!

Villa dwarf Blues. They will always be in our shadow.

Recruitment has been the problem. Players and managers.

And still the most successful club in the midlands this century , BCFC KRO

They need to go down to rebuild and it certainly won't be easy to get back up

What happened to Laurence Bassini?

I DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY BUT THEY ARE DEFINATLEY A BIGGER CLUB THAN LUTON BOURNMOUTH BRENTFORD BURNLEY ETC .BUT NOTHING NEAR ASTON VILLA BUT CAN DEFINATLEY GET TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE

John Eustace must be wetting himself watching all this unfold. Sacked in 6th and they’re gonna go down lol

Yh, he SLAMMED them! Thinks will be different

Small Heath get battered everywhere they go 😂😂😂😂😂😂

He doesn’t like us does he 🤣🤣💙

I have been shocked for years at how poorly-supported Birmingham City appears to be. They are in the second city FGS ! To only get 18,000 supporters coming to the ground is poor, really. They were in the PL 12 years ago (?) and win the League Cup in 2010 (?) - they should be getting mid 20ks. Their plight right now is due to the over-reaction to sack a Manager when you're 7th, and appoint a bafoon in Rooney. I don't want to see BCFC go down, but if they do it will be partly self-inflicted.

Birmingham will recover. Things are starting to go right at Board level and the fan base is far bigger than the Aston Villa base. So give it some years and they will be back to their rightful position as the number one club in the midlands. Wolves have been in that place for too long now.

SJ could not survive in todays climate of paying 50k a week to his 3rd choice right back

Is he still pissed ?

Aston is a run down nasty suburb of Birmingham, it’s about time that the team that carries the name of the City starts to behave a perform as such, hopefully they can match the big talk and become to number 1 team in the midlands and put the ward of Aston back in its place.

60K, itll be empty as usual 😂

Blues would never fill 60 thousand Tiny club

Every Real Villa fan wants them back in the Premier for our City, but theres no way Blues will EVER be bigger than Villa! It will take them 10 years just to become a solid mid table Prem team at this rate! They have Todd Boely America delusion at the helm like Chelsea! Unlike two Villa Owners with a long history of sports franchises and business, a lot of orher American owners dont grasp rhe reality if English football and try to rush the process. 🤔

Now they are in league one 😂😂

💩 on the 🏙... "small heath get battered everywhere they go... everywhere they go" 😂

We have a plan so you cant knock them .After all the idiots who have run our club into the ground its nice to see ambition .Birmingham is full of blue noses most villa fans come from Stafford and Sutton

Simon jordan big statements but wheres the answer to the questions?

Birmingham City are just as big as Villa and I'm not a Blues fan.

🤣OMG....🤣...Come on Jim don't do that to Simon " We didnt have Tina Turner perform on a regular basis, we didn't have NFL games"

Ffs people go on and on the size or whatever the sports quater has nothing to do with our league position it will take 5 years to build thst gives us 5 years to improve on the pitch the owners have already said we are going to have money to spend in the summer what a useless conversation

Be the biggest sports facililty in League 1!

Lol in small heath he has obviously never been for a walk around the surrounding area

Knighthead have made ONE mistake, name a club that hasn't made mistakes. Nobody is looking at what Knighthead have done for Blues, completely redesigned the stadium, built more revenue than we have probably ever had. Yeah ok the playing side has been dismal but don't forget they are still stuck with FFP and players from the previous ownership, add in being unlucky with Mowbray, I can't thank them enough for what they have done, it's the players that aren't performing at the moment. Also Wagner said named not main and actually said he wants us to be on terms with Villa not bigger, he said a big derby with two teams doing well is great for the city

'...coupled with existing railroad structure'... Hahaha! Good luck with that! VTID

Jim white acting like we’re moving to the new stadium tomorrow, fair enough they’ve got the ambition and willing to go into details with fans. On field it might be awful but what other owners are you seeing that are so transparent. Especially after Birminghams last owners

I honestly don't know what Jim's talking about...I really don't! The biggest difference I've found between Blues and Villa is ambition! Villa have shown much more ambition as the years have passed and by and large, they've done quite well. But Blues have ambition now! Mr Wagner's come in and shown us his vision of what he wants to do and see so my question to Jim is this: What the Hell is wrong with that?! 🤬🤬

Try and do a title to your videos that doesn’t say SLAMS. Annoying af

Rooney only had them for 15 games, far too much blame on him. He never had any transfer windows to build owt. Owners and previous team builders to blame..

I missed the aston villa comment

All what they want to is already in Birmingham. Man City were not under any spending restrictions so there is no comparison to be made . They cannot fill their ground at the moment, it’s only full when they play the Villa.

Ive heard Villa are to move stadium to Solihul by NEC, yer and it's going to hold 200,000.....see how easy it is to write bullshit.

Good luck on getting easy access...unless you are ejecting the Cov Rd out of the stratosphere 🤑

When I read these villa fans are saying then I sitt back and think that's why I support the blues arrogant

Impressive ambition , take note Chelsea playing in a 39,000 capacity stadium 😂

SOTC UTV

Going down in the hopes of coming back up and getting that balloon payment?

Most people in Birmingham obviously support Villa

Tina Turner, genius

Too many people on here that really don't understand how money works 😂

Hilarious seeing how deluded and clueless Tom Wagner is about this sport. I get it from Jim. He deliberately looks to generate hype and debate. But he has to tone it down because he lost a lot of credibility saying Rooney was gonna be a good coach when everyone knew the Birmingham FC owners have zero clue about this sport.

Nothing better than a rattled Vile fan.