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Birmingham Profit From Norwich Promotion

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It turns out that Birmingham City will receive £300,000 from Norwich winning the play-off final 2-0 over Middlesbrough.

The deal that took Redmond from Birmingham to Norwich had a promotion clause that was activated when Norwich lifted the final trophy, signifying the end of the Championship for another season.

Norwich purchased Redmond for a relatively modest £3.2 million back when they were in the Premier League, nevertheless provisions were made should they be relegated – of which they were.

Birmingham were forced to cash in on their young homegrown talent as a result of their former club President being jailed for money laundering charges.

Redmond was a trainee with the club and grew up supporting Birmingham before making his first team breakthrough. He made just 27 league starts before leaving for a new club.

It is pleasing to see that the deals that took players away from the club had provisions in it to increase the fee in the long run. At the time it is accepted the club had little or no choice in offloading players but no doubt the fee would have been larger had the circumstances been different.

Redmond has now earned Blues £3.5 million and considering hes probably worth at least £4.5 million that still isn’t really what Blues would have hoped as a return for the young prospect.

If a club were to attempt to purchase him now I’m sure Norwich would be getting upwards of £5 million at the very least, considering Birmingham have been offered as much as £5m for Demarai Gray from Bournemouth.

Birmingham now find themselves with enough resources to have some resolve when clubs come calling for their players, finally allowing the club to move forward instead of simply being a farming expedition for other clubs.



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