{"id":13549,"date":"2026-04-21T19:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13549"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:11:51","slug":"jude-bellingham-england-and-real-madrid-midfielder-invests-almost-1m-in-hundred-side-birmingham-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13549","title":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham: England and Real Madrid midfielder invests almost \u00a31m in Hundred side Birmingham Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England and Real Madrid footballer Jude Bellingham has bought a 1.2% stake in cricket team Birmingham Phoenix.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Edgbaston-based side were one of the eight Hundred franchises put up for sale last year and American investment group Knighthead Capital Management, who own Bellingham&#8217;s former club Birmingham City, bought a 49% stake for \u00a340m. Warwickshire retained their 51% stake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bellingham has taken on 0.6% from each party, meaning Warwickshire still have control with 50.4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deal, worth close to \u00a31m, will be confirmed on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bellingham, 22, is a cricket fan and played junior cricket for Hagley Cricket Club in Worcestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked in an interview last year which sportsperson he would swap places with, he said England Test captain Ben Stokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Legendary NFL quarterback Brady is also part of the Knighthead group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England and Real Madrid footballer Jude Bellingham has bought a 1.2% stake in cricket team Birmingham Phoenix. The Edgbaston-based side were one of the eight Hundred franchises put up for sale last year and American investment group Knighthead Capital Management, who own Bellingham&#8217;s former club Birmingham City, bought a 49% stake for \u00a340m. Warwickshire retained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}