Forssell & McFadden
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In-form Birmingham striker Mikael Forssell says he is happy to stay at the club next season – as long as they are still in the Premiership. The Finland international's current contract expires in the summer, although Blues do hold an option to extend it by a further two years. Forssell, who scored an impressive hat-trick in last Saturday's 4-0 demolition of Carling Cup champions Spurs, says he is ready to put all contract talks on hold until the club's status is decided. He said: "I've got this season left before it finishes and we will have to wait to see what happens. We need to see where we are in the league first. The most important thing is that we stay up. Hopefully we can do that and then we can start talking. "The key factor for both me and the club is that we don't go down. That would be very important and I would be more than happy to stay then. This is a great club. I'm 26-years-old and I'm hoping the best years are in front of me. I have worked a lot in my career to keep going and I need to keep improving." Manager Alex McLeish said: "When I came here three months ago my first impression of watching Mikael in training was that he is the best finisher we had at the club. He is so keen to do well. "He wants to train all the time. It is difficult to say to him 'come off the training ground and have a rest' because he is the type of boy who practices his finishing after every session." Meanwhile, striker James McFadden says the club must now start focussing on the sides above them in the table rather than looking over their shoulders at the teams below them. He said: "The results at the weekend (Newcastle's defeat against Blackburn and Reading's win against Middlesbrough) have brought other teams into it. Reading won but we can't be looking behind us, we've got to be looking up. "We're a couple of wins away from being in mid-table so I think we need to be looking forward and try to build on Saturday's result and the last couple of performances and see where it takes us. "Hopefully we can climb the table. The last couple of weeks we've done really well. Going back to Derby, we played really well and threw it away. West Ham away and Arsenal to home, we werent expected to get anything but we did. We ground out a couple of draws at on Saturday we comfortably won in the end. "You can say it's our first win since Boxing Day but we've not lost in four, that's a better way to look at it. I think we have got progressively better every week and hopefully we can build on it and start to win a few more games from now on." On Forssell's impressive recent form, McFadden added: "Mikael's a top class striker and we seem to have got a good understanding going. As long as one of us is scoring the goals every week, that's the main thing." |
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