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Jul 31, 2025, 03:50 AM ET
Birmingham City number proprietor and NFL fable Tom Brady has questioned his side's erstwhile manager Wayne Rooney's "work ethic" and called immoderate of the squad from the 2023-24 play "lazy and entitled."
Seven-time Super Bowl champion Brady became a number proprietor of Birmingham successful August 2023 pursuing Knighthead Capital Management LLC and American financier Tom Wagner's takeover of the club.
"I'm a small disquieted astir our caput coach's [Rooney's] enactment ethic," Brady said successful an Amazon Prime documentary to motorboat connected Friday, focusing connected Birmingham's promotion to the Championship past season.
"I mean, I don't know, I don't person large instincts connected that."
Rooney was appointed Birmingham manager 2 months into Knighthead and Brady's takeover, helium went connected to past conscionable 83 days successful complaint arsenic the nine were relegated to League One.
"Well we've already changed the coach, truthful it's truly the players due to the fact that the manager doesn't spell retired determination and enactment the shot successful the goal," Brady said aft Birmingham's relegation successful his archetypal play progressive with the club.
"They were lazy, they were entitled and erstwhile you're lazy and entitled, you don't person overmuch of a accidental to succeed.
"We've got to alteration each the radical that are associated with losing, truthful I deliberation this summertime there's going to beryllium a batch of radical gone."
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After they were relegated successful 2024, Birmingham spent a League One record connected transfers and achieved promotion with an English Football League grounds 111 points.
Birmingham person besides been engaged successful this summer's transportation model up of their instrumentality to English football's 2nd tier. Bringing successful six players connected imperishable deals truthful acold including erstwhile Premier League victor Demarai Gray arsenic good arsenic ex-Celtic guardant Kyogo Furuhashi for €9 cardinal ($10m) from Stade Rennais.
They commencement their play astatine location to Ipswich Town connected Aug. 8.
