{"id":489956,"date":"2026-02-19T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489956\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:50:07","slug":"tom-brady-links-up-with-zlatan-ibrahimovic-as-nfl-goat-birmingham-city-shareholder-is-gifted-personalised-ac-milan-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489956\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady links up with Zlatan Ibrahimovic as NFL GOAT &#038; Birmingham City shareholder is gifted personalised AC Milan shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brady is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/big-names-tom-brady-birmingham-transfer-prediction-new-stadium-nfl-games\/blt324286c1deaf78f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">backed to help bring more big names to Birmingham<\/a>, with former Blues defender Stephen Carr telling GOAL recently: \u201cI think that\u2019s what they are aiming for. The stadium that they just released, you can see what they are building &#8211; that is for the Premier League, that\u2019s not for the Football League. That has to be a Premier League stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know there is all the other stuff with it, the NFL and everything, but it is being geared up now where they want to go. Very ambitious. But there is a limit to what you can spend, it\u2019s as simple as that. You see it at Newcastle as well &#8211; the richest club in the world but they can\u2019t go out and buy whoever they want. That\u2019s where they need plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do need a good few players. If they stay in the Championship, consolidate and then build. They need players coming in. It\u2019s what they can bring in, what they are restricted with and what they can spend. They have always had a good academy there, they produce some good young players. But you see with the stadium and everything, they are very ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stadium shows how much money they will be spending. That stadium is only worth something if you are in the Premier League, it\u2019s not for the Championship &#8211; with the costs and all that. You see Tottenham\u2019s stadium and what they spent, they spent a fortune, but they are in the Premier League. That\u2019s a Premier League stadium, so hopefully they do it and get up. I think you will see spending. I think it will be controlled, it won\u2019t be stupid, but you will see bigger names coming back to Birmingham.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brady is being backed to help bring more big names to Birmingham, with former Blues defender Stephen Carr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[18088,247611,64,63,15579,49838,593,10815,85,247610],"class_list":{"0":"post-489956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ac-milan","9":"tag-ac-milan-vs-como","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-birmingham","13":"tag-como","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-serie-a","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-z-ibrahimovic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}