Phillips extends Blues stay
Birmingham striker Kevin Phillips has signed a one-year contract extension, the club have confirmed.
The 36-year-old had been tipped to leave St Andrew’s but manager Alex McLeish has opted to keep him for another year just days after a move for Palermo’s Fabrizio Miccoli fell through.
Birmingham had been close to agreeing a £5m fee with the Serie A club until Miccoli announced he wanted to stay in Italy.
But Phillips, who joined the Blues in the summer of 2008 from West Brom and has scored 18 goals in 62 appearances, has now pledged his future to the club, extending a career which has also taken in stints with Watford, Sunderland, Southampton and Aston Villa.
