{"id":27938,"date":"2025-04-17T16:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27938\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:13:18","slug":"tom-brady-influence-at-birmingham-city-clear-with-new-investors-and-transfer-moves-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27938\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady influence at Birmingham City clear with new investors and transfer moves confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Brady has made his influence clear at Birmingham City, who have confirmed a list of new investors following their defeat by Peterborough at Wembley Stadium on Sunday<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_GettyImages-2210078482.jpg\" alt=\"Minority Shareholder Tom Brady and Chairman Tom Wagner \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Tom Brady was with co-owner Tom Wagner at Wembley on Sunday(Image: Richard Pelham\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Birmingham City have announced a raft of new investors as <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/tom-brady\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Brady\u2019s<\/a> influence at the club becomes more tangible. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/nfl\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a> great Brady was a notable presence at Wembley Stadium on Sunday as <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-city-fc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the Blues<\/a> were beaten 2-0 by Peterborough in the EFL Trophy final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The former quarterback became a minority owner of the League One side back in August 2023 and remains involved as a chairman of the club\u2019s advisory board. Although the 47-year-old owns just 3.3 per cent of Birmingham and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/tom-brady-birmingham-city-rowett-34098314\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">has no active day-to-day involvement<\/a> at the club, his star power remains evident beyond the posh seats at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Shelby Companies Limited (SCL), the company through which Knighthead Capital Management owns the Blues, has updated its list of shareholders and many of the new names have links to Brady, as <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/knighthead-confirm-new-birmingham-city-31434452\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">BirminghamLive<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One of the ways Brady does influence Birmingham is through his interest in sports science, with his \u2018body coach\u2019, Alex Guerrero, working with the players. Guerrero, who has been present at the training ground on occasions this season, and his wife Alicia Guerrero have become minority shareholders in SCL.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/aaron-boupendza-dead-china-fall-35066391\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aaron Boupendza dies aged 28 after international footballer falls off 11th floor of building<\/a>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/gianluca-zambrotta-medical-condition-knees-35065153\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Cup winner, 48, needs prosthetics due to rare condition that has doctors baffled<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Another investor is The Religion of Sports Media, a film-making venture led by Gautam Chopra which counts Brady as a shareholder. Ameeth Sankaran, another member of the Religion of Sports Media, is also an investor. The Religion of Sports Media, who have made films about Serena Williams, Kobe Bryant and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/ben-stokes\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Stokes<\/a>, are producing the Amazon Prime documentary about Birmingham City that was announced last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Other investors include property investors Owl Holdings Limited, Paramour Capital, an investment banking advisory firm, and James DeMare, the president of global markets at Bank of America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Birmingham\u2019s owners have made a splash by spending north of \u00a325million on new players and have been rewarded with promotion from League One. 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