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REVEALED: Tom Brady rarely attends Birmingham games, but the NFL legend’s “passion” is being used to help turn the Blues into an….see more
The seven-time Super Bowl winner became a shock addition to the board at St Andrew’s when acquiring a stake in August 2023. He has headed to the United Kingdom on a couple of occasions, but has not taken a leaf out of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s book at Wrexham when it comes to paying regular visits to British shores.
Birmingham have, however, worked motivational quotes from the legendary quarterback onto the walls of their training base, while TBRx branding figures prominently and a team of specialists from that company are now based in the West Midlands.
Blues boss Chris Davies has revealed how involved Brady is on a weekly basis, saying of having vast experience of life at the very top of professional sport on the other end of a phone call: “That’s been really good so far.
I speak to Tom regularly, he has a real passion for what we’re doing, a real interest, and wants to help with any insights that he can. I’m always talking to him and that’s useful. Tom thinks there needs to be good standards in place and we need to be consistent with that. That 24 hours after a game is really critical for the players to recover, Tom is a big advocate of that. He’s big on that side of things and it’s aligned with how I think on it.
“We need to have high standards around recovery and discipline in what we do in terms of preparation around their bodies to play that pressing game that I want to play, then recover and go again, and again, and again. You need to be really well drilled and organized with your routine day-to-day.”