Rob McElhenney warns Tom Brady about the 'mistake' he must avoid with Birmingham City

Rob McElhenney co-owns Wrexham successful the National League with chap histrion Ryan Reynolds and has a involvement successful Championship nine Birmingham City, similar NFL icon Tom Brady

Rob McElhenney has dished retired aureate guidance to NFL heavyweight Tom Brady connected the ins and outs of owning a British shot club, telling him the cardinal is to "listen much than you talk" to enactment successful the bully books with supporters.

Brady, pursuing successful McElhenney's footsteps, joined the shot ownership country past twelvemonth by snapping up a portion of Birmingham City. Meanwhile, since 2020, McElhenney alongside Hollywood buddy Ryan Reynolds person been jazzing up Wrexham, steering it done successive promotions and turning the squad into an planetary sensation.

Eyes from astir the globe were locked connected St Andrews precocious arsenic Birmingham clinched a 3-1 triumph implicit Wrexham successful what was a marquee League One face-off, with some teams eyeing elevation this term.

In a candid clip shared connected Brady's YouTube leafage earlier the match, McElhenney doled retired his apical extremity for the gridiron legend: "For sure, perceive much than you talk," helium advised, whilst connected the pitch. "Ryan and I, who speech for a living, admit that this is each astir the community.

"Its each astir the radical that travel to these stadiums and capable these stadiums for a 100 years. The NFL was founded successful what, the 1920s? [Birmingham City] has been present for astir 150 years and Wrexham was founded successful 1864. That's crazy. While the US was successful the mediate of a civilian warfare they founded they founded a shot club.

McElhenney highlighted the unsocial borderline Brady brings arsenic a sports icon turned owner, saying: "Ryan and I precise specifically enactment retired of the locker room." He added: "I mean we spell successful and we speech to the guys but we don't person pep talks, we effort to enactment distant from each shot operations. That's got to beryllium specified a competitory vantage for you to locomotion into those rooms and erstwhile you speech to those guys you're 1 of 5 radical astir apt connected satellite Earth that everybody successful each locker country volition perceive to."

Brady concurred, expressing his content that his NFL experiences could beryllium pivotal successful motivating Birmingham's squad. The shot fable shared: "That's benignant of wherever I deliberation my biggest publication tin be."

He reflected connected his career, saying, "I was a subordinate however did I I was truthful fortunate to really unrecorded my dream. How did I bash it? It's large present that I'm beyond that I tin assistance 20 different guys who are young bash the aforesaid happening and there's a mode to bash it."

He stressed the value of idiosyncratic work successful health, stating: "It shouldn't beryllium a mystery. You can't subcontract your wellness retired to idiosyncratic else. For me, it's similar 'This is however you bash it and it's non-negotiable for maine successful the aforesaid way'."

Both Birmingham and Wrexham person kicked disconnected the play impressively successful League One. The Red Dragons are presently starring the pack, with Birmingham conscionable down connected extremity difference, though they person a crippled successful manus implicit their promotion-chasing rivals.