Birmingham midfielder Barry Ferguson has targeted finishing his career at the club. The 32-year-old has been an ever-present in the Blues' Premier League campaign this term, playing every minute as Alex McLeish's men have picked up seven points from their opening seven games.
May people expected the combative midfielder to see out his career at Rangers, but Ferguson revealed how he started to become disillusioned with life in the Scottish Premier League.
"I love it here," he told the Sunday Mercury. "I have said plenty of times before I wasn't enjoying my football during the last few months in Scotland.
"I made the decision with Rangers that I had to move on because I was going pretty stale up the road. I was playing the same teams week in, week out.
"The manager gave me the opportunity to come down and I think I had to prove again that I could play at this level.
"I'm enjoying every minute of it. The boys are fantastic, everything about the club is great and I'm enjoying my football.
"I have got another two years left on my contract now and hopefully I will see them out."
Ferguson, who was voted players' player-of-the-year last season, believes the team spirit at St Andrew's will help the team through a sticky start to the campaign.
"People look at me as if I'm stupid, but it's definitely the best team spirit I've ever experienced, I've ever played in," he says.
"I'm not just saying that because I'm enjoying myself. You go in and you see at half-time, even when we are on top in a game, people are still at each other.
"Not fighting or anything like that, but it's great. It should be like that.
"We don't like our standards to fall and, if anybody does let them fall, then there's someone else down their throat.
"It makes the manager's job a lot easier."
