Source: Team_Talk
McLeish will work to parameters
Blues manager McLeish will sit down with the board in the next few days to find out what funds will be available after steering the club to promotion in his first full season.
But McLeish will work within whatever parameters are placed in front of him by the long-serving Sullivan and Gold.
The former Scotland boss said: "It is no secret that the clubs who have triumphed and have stayed up over the last few years have put a couple of bob into things.
"It is a great ambition of mine to succeed in the Premier League. I know it doesn't come easy.
"It involves a great deal of hard graft and you also need a little bit of luck and, of course, we need sound investment.
"But I will be guided by the parameters. I know the club run it on a sound basis and has been done so for the past few years.
"That has brought Birmingham from a level of disarray to stability and you can't knock the directors for the way they have done that.
"Whether we can go to the next step, that is the question everyone will be asking.
"If I can do something to help Birmingham to stay in the Premier League for the foreseeable future, then great, and the longer you stay in there, the more you can grow financially."
Sullivan and Gold, who have been in charge at St Andrew's for 16 years after rescuing the club from oblivion, are both multi-millionaires.
But McLeish insisted: "It would be unreasonable to ask people to put millions of their own money into the club.
"We know David Gold and David Sullivan are wealthy men but I think no-one has any right to say 'put your own money in there'.
"We have seen the Premier League graveyard that has faced some teams that have gone down to the Championship after over-stretching financially.
"Sometimes when you go for it, you can just implode. Birmingham are quite sensibly run and I don't think the owners and the board at this stage are about to change that philosophy.
"We have to accept and respect that but I hope the fans understand things."
