NFL legend Tom Brady has questioned Wayne Rooney’s angle through the ex-England captain’s tenure as supervisor of Birmingham Metropolis, the place Brady is a minority proprietor.

In a brand new Amazon Prime documentary sequence, because of air on Friday, seven-time Tremendous Bowl winner Brady tells colleagues: “I am just a little fearful about our head coach’s work ethic,” earlier than including: “I imply, I do not know, I haven’t got nice instincts on that.”

Brady, who additionally calls Blues gamers “lazy and entitled” within the sequence, made his feedback about Rooney following a go to to the membership’s coaching floor in November 2023.

Filmed conversations between the previous quarterback after which supervisor Rooney seem awkward.

In a single trade, the ex-Everton and Manchester United striker tells his employer about a few of the cultural issues he perceives on the membership.

“Why they’re taking part in within the Championship and never the Premier League,” Rooney says, “is as a result of… we have all handed a ball, kicked the ball and run, but it surely’s a spotlight, concentrated for 90 minutes.”

In scenes that comply with, Brady is filmed watching a coaching session, saying: “We have a protracted highway forward.”

The retired quarterback – extensively thought-about the very best participant in NFL historical past – turned a minority proprietor within the membership in August 2023, following a takeover the earlier month by Knighthead Capital Administration LLC, co-founded by financier Tom Wagner.

The membership have been relegated to League One within the first yr underneath their new possession after going by seven managers in 10 months.

Two months after Brady arrived in 2023, supervisor John Eustace was controversially changed by Rooney, with the Blues sitting sixth within the Championship.

Nevertheless, with the membership then plummeting to twentieth within the desk, Rooney solely lasted 83 days in cost at St Andrew’s.

On the time, Rooney stated that he didn’t really feel 13 weeks was “ample to supervise the modifications that have been wanted”.