Tom Wagner drops exciting Birmingham City message to Bluenoses for 2026 | OneFootball

Blues owner Wagner is certainly feeling upbeat heading into 2026 despite indifferent form on the pitch

Birmingham City owner Tom Wagner has sent an impassioned message to the club's fans ahead of the start of 2026 - with promotion still very much the goal among the hierarchy at St. Andrew's.

Blues' return to the Championship after a year away brought much fanfare, especially after they stormed through League One as expected with a record-breaking 111-point haul, with £15 million striker Jay Stansfield leading the line.

But it's been somewhat of a frustrating, inconsistent first few months back in English football's second tier, with head coach Chris Davies not yet being able to get the best out of what is, on paper, a talented squad.

Birmingham City owner Tom Wagner sends message to Blues fans ahead of 2026

With the January transfer window on the horizon though, Birmingham will be expected to strengthen their squad, which is almost a necessity if they want to climb from their current position of 15th in the Championship, albeit they are only seven points off the play-off spots as it currently stands.

And the man who will be behind the spearheading of City's aim to be back in the Premier League as soon as it's feasible is owner Tom Wagner, whose 2024 takeover of the club just continues to produce headlines.

The American financeer is the driving force behind the planned Sports Quarter that is set to give Birmingham a new 62,000-seater stadium, and he's sent a bullish message on the eve of 2026 to the club's fans, which will no doubt leave them excited.

“Keep the faith and keep right on. There’s a lot of good that’s going to come in the next few years,” Wagner said in an interview with The Telegraph.

“There’s nothing that’s going to stop us from pursuing the Sports Quarter project. There’s nothing that’s going to stop us from growing the revenues. There’s nothing that’s going to stop us from really becoming a much bigger club.

“If we don’t achieve our goals, we’ll reassess why, we’ll make corrections to what went wrong, and then we’ll go back at it, and we’ll get there.

“It’s not a question of if we’re going to get there – it’s a question of when and how. Right now, I’m just focused on the how.”

Birmingham City could have a big 2026 if they get January right

There's little to separate the middle of the Championship pack and the play-off spots right now, and it's only going to take one good run of form for a team like Birmingham to climb up the table and make their presence felt.

Inconsistencies though have been rife at St. Andrew's this season - whilst Davies' squad clearly has a lot of talent, they have struggled away from home especially, and they need to address those failings in the form of new players.

Thanks to Wagner though, they will not be short of a few quid come the January window, and it would be a shock if Davies was not backed with what he needs for the rest of the season, given the club and ownership's clear top flight ambitions.