Birmingham City minority proprietor and NFL legend Tom Brady has questioned his facet’s former supervisor Wayne Rooney’s “work ethic” and known as among the squad from the 2023-24 season “lazy and entitled.”
Seven-time Tremendous Bowl champion Brady became a minority owner of Birmingham in August 2023 following Knighthead Capital Administration LLC and American financier Tom Wagner’s takeover of the membership.
“I am just a little frightened about our head coach’s [Rooney’s] work ethic,” Brady mentioned in an Amazon Prime documentary to launch on Friday, specializing in Birmingham’s promotion to the Championship final season.
“I imply, I do not know, I haven’t got nice instincts on that.”
Rooney was appointed Birmingham supervisor two months into Knighthead and Brady’s takeover, he went on to final simply 83 days in cost because the membership have been relegated to League One.
“Effectively we have already modified the coach, so it is actually the gamers as a result of the coach does not go on the market and put the ball within the purpose,” Brady mentioned after Birmingham’s relegation in his first season concerned with the membership.
“They have been lazy, they have been entitled and whenever you’re lazy and entitled, you do not have a lot of an opportunity to succeed.
“We have got to alter all of the individuals which can be related to shedding, so I feel this summer season there’s going to be lots of people gone.”
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After they have been relegated in 2024, Birmingham spent a League One record on transfers and achieved promotion with an English Soccer League report 111 factors.
Birmingham have additionally been busy on this summer season’s switch window forward of their return to English soccer’s second tier. Bringing in six gamers on everlasting offers to this point together with former Premier League winner Demarai Gray in addition to ex-Celtic ahead Kyogo Furuhashi for €9 million ($10m) from Stade Rennais.
They begin their season at house to Ipswich Town on Aug. 8.