Birmingham City president Tom Wagner says the nine are targeting successive promotions and reaching the Premier League adjacent twelvemonth "is surely the goal".
The League One champions broke the EFL grounds for astir points successful a play successful 2024-25, and the American businessman told BBC Sport helium wants the nine to instrumentality to the apical formation "as rapidly arsenic we can".
With plans for a caller stadium handed a large boost connected Tuesday, aft the authorities confirmed concern successful section transport links, Wagner believes the Blues volition beryllium "highly competitive" successful the Championship.
And helium says that is due to the fact that the club's commercialized revenues volition beryllium "very adjacent to, if not successful enactment with" those of rivals successful receipt of parachute payments.
Leicester City, Southampton and Ipswich Town volition each payment from astir £50m adjacent season, having been relegated from the Premier League.
Birmingham spent £25m aft dropping down from the Championship past year, and Wagner vowed to beryllium "very progressive successful the transportation market" this summertime successful a bid to physique connected the advancement nether "exceptional" manager Chris Davies.
He added helium is unfastened to the thought of clubs playing immoderate cupful matches overseas arsenic a means of increasing an planetary fanbase.
A "thrilled" Wagner was speaking aft his hopes for a caller 62,000-seat stadium to regenerate St Andrews took a important measurement forward, with authorities backing for a caller tramline to a planned £3bn 'Sports Quarter' successful the eastbound of the city.
The club's owners, US concern steadfast Knighthead Capital - which Wagner founded - wants to physique a 125-acre sports and leisure analyzable connected abandoned onshore successful Bordesley Green, and person been trying to transportation ministers to assistance the West Midlands billions of pounds to money caller transport links for the regeneration project.
Now that has been achieved, helium says the purpose is for the "transformative" Sports Quarter - which volition besides see a 20,000-seat arena, edifice and grooming analyzable for the club's men's, women's and academy teams - to beryllium unfastened by 2030.
"We needed the transport links to guarantee the tract was viable," said Wagner.
"This volition beryllium an amusement venue dissimilar galore others successful the world."
"We person a unsocial opportunity. If you look crossed occidental Europe you'd beryllium hard pressed to find different metropolis with that overmuch onshore available... wherever a task of this magnitude could beryllium created.
"This volition beryllium a venue that is utilized 365 days a year, we'll make 8,500 jobs... the extremity would beryllium to big a full scope of planetary events, not solely shot but American football, rugby."
Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady is simply a number proprietor of Birmingham City.
When asked if determination was a hazard that the caller stadium would effect successful higher summons prices for supporters, Wagner said: "If you terms retired the fans that are present you person antithetic radical sitting successful the stands, you suffer the singing, you suffer the passionateness and past you've mislaid your product.
"We person to retrieve this is simply a nine of the radical and that means the solution for increasing commercialized gross is not solved done summons prices, it's solved done making a amended product."
Last year, Birmingham City's erstwhile main enforcement Garry Cook said it would beryllium "a large idea" if they played a league lucifer against chap US-owned nine Wrexham connected American soil.
"I don't deliberation that it makes consciousness to bash it needfully with regular-season matches," said Wagner.
When asked what helium thought astir perchance playing immoderate home cupful matches successful the US, helium said: "It's thing that has to beryllium thought of.
"When you deliberation astir the top-tier clubs successful the Premier League, they're competing globally, which means that they person to person planetary fans and global-scale revenue, and if that means playing immoderate matches overseas to make much pursuing and gross for the nine I deliberation that's a bully thing.
"You person to find a mode to bash it that doesn't instrumentality distant from your section community, truthful it's precise overmuch a balancing act. There's a precise good enactment that needs to beryllium walked there, but I deliberation for the apical clubs it's thing that has to beryllium earnestly considered.
"Perhaps there's a antithetic tournament, oregon thing that happens that allows for that, possibly astatine a antithetic constituent successful clip successful the season. There's a full bid of ways that could beryllium pursued beyond simply the pre-season tours."
When asked what assurances helium could springiness to fans acrophobic astir the fig of English clubs present controlled by US investors, Wagner said: "The crushed Americans are drawn to investing present is due to the fact that it's English football.
"If we 'Americanise' it, past it's mislaid everything that drew radical present successful the archetypal place."
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