Phillips said: "This is a great opportunity for me to have another stab at the Premiership. I am 34 in the summer and I feel good. This is a new lease of life and that is why I came. I could have stayed at Aston Villa and just picked up my money and not played very often, but that is not in my make-up. "I wanted to go somewhere, play regularly and enjoy myself, which is exactly what I am doing. Promotion with Sunderland was probably the high-point of my career and to achieve it with Albion would also be something special."