McLeish: Ferguson has unfinished business

12 April 2012

Birmingham boss Alex McLeish believes new signing Barry Ferguson will have "something to prove" when he returns to the Barclays Premier League.

City signed the 31-year-old from Rangers for an undisclosed fee in the region of £1.2million - on a three-year contract - as he makes his return to England for the first time since an injury-plagued spell at Blackburn which ended in 2005.

McLeish told Rangers official website: "Barry has played at a very high level for Rangers, in big games. Maybe the Scottish league is not the strongest but he's played a good level of games, in the Champions League, the Celtic fixture and cup finals. I think he has got unfinished business in England."

He added: "He started with a bad injury at Blackburn, then fought his way back to fitness, and the reports I got at that time, before he came back to Rangers, was that he was playing extremely well.

"But maybe he didn't stay long enough for people to make a full assessment of him. So I think in that respect Barry will want to come down with something to prove.

"They have barely started pre-season training but again, from the reports I've had, he's been up there in the fitness testing they have done. He's always been a pretty fit guy."

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