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NFL legend Tom Brady has questioned Wayne Rooney’s attitude during the ex-England captain’s tenure as manager of Birmingham City, where Brady is a minority owner.<\/b><\/p>\n
In a new Amazon Prime documentary series, due to air on Friday, seven-time Super Bowl winner Brady tells colleagues: “I’m a little worried about our head coach’s work ethic,” before adding: “I mean, I don’t know, I don’t have great instincts on that.”<\/p>\n
Brady, who also calls Blues players “lazy and entitled” in the series, made his comments about Rooney following a visit to the club’s training ground in November 2023.<\/p>\n
Filmed conversations between the former quarterback and then manager Rooney appear awkward. <\/p>\n
In one exchange, the ex-Everton and Manchester United striker tells his employer about some of the cultural problems he perceives at the club.<\/p>\n
“Why they’re playing in the Championship and not the Premier League,” Rooney says, “is because… we’ve all passed a ball, kicked the ball and run, but it’s a focus, concentrated for 90 minutes.”<\/p>\n
In scenes that follow, Brady is filmed watching a training session, saying: “We’ve got a long road ahead.”<\/p>\n
The retired quarterback – widely considered the best player in NFL history – became a minority owner<\/a> in the club in August 2023, following a takeover the previous month by Knighthead Capital Management LLC, co-founded by financier Tom Wagner.<\/p>\n The club were relegated<\/a> to League One in the first year under their new ownership after going through seven managers in 10 months.<\/a><\/p>\n Two months after Brady arrived in 2023, manager John Eustace was controversially replaced by Rooney,<\/a> with the Blues sitting sixth in the Championship. <\/p>\n However, with the club then plummeting to 20th in the table, Rooney only lasted 83 days<\/a> in charge at St Andrew’s. <\/p>\n At the time, Rooney said that he did not feel 13 weeks was “sufficient to oversee the changes that were needed”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n