{"id":343851,"date":"2025-08-14T12:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343851\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:35:24","slug":"wayne-rooney-criticism-from-birmingham-minority-owner-tom-brady-very-unfair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343851\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney: Criticism from Birmingham minority owner Tom Brady \u2018very unfair\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rooney, sacked by Birmingham in January 2024 after less than three months in charge, said he was \u201creally disappointed with the comment\u201d on his new podcast, The Wayne Rooney Show, which launches on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>NFL great Brady, who became a minority shareholder at Birmingham in August 2023, said he was \u201ca little worried about our head coach\u2019s work ethic\u201d during a documentary after visiting Blues\u2019 training ground the following November.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2.77483923.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Brady pictured before Birmingham's home game against Wrexham in September 2024\" data-title=\"Birmingham City v Wrexham \u2013 Sky Bet League One \u2013 St Andrew\u2019s @ Knighthead Park\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Nick Potts\" data-usage-terms=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.\"  \/>Tom Brady, right, became a minority shareholder at Birmingham in August 2023 (Nick Potts\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Former England captain Rooney said he was \u201creally disappointed\u201d at the seven-time Super Bowl winner\u2019s criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking via his new show on the BBC, the ex-Everton and Manchester United striker said: \u201cI think Tom came in once, which was the day before a game where the days are a little bit lighter anyway, and I don\u2019t think he really understood football that well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what he does understand is \u2013 he\u2019s a hard worker \u2013 we know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rooney added: \u201cFootball is not NFL \u2013 NFL works for three months a year. Players do need rest as well, so I think he\u2019s very unfair, the way he\u2019s come out and portrayed that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2.74442588.jpg\" alt=\"Birmingham manager Wayne Rooney during the home Sky Bet Championship match against Ipswich\" data-title=\"Birmingham City v Ipswich Town \u2013 Sky Bet Championship \u2013 St. Andrew\u2019s\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Bradley Collyer\" data-usage-terms=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.\"  \/>Wayne Rooney was sacked by Birmingham after 15 games in charge (Bradley Collyer\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham were bought out by American consortium Knighthead Capital Management in the summer of 2023 and Brady became a shareholder two months later.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney was sacked following 15 matches after Blues had slipped to 20th in the Sky Bet Championship and the club were relegated at the end of the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>Under current boss Chris Davies, Birmingham bounced straight back to the second tier as League One champions last season with an English Football League record points tally of 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rooney, sacked by Birmingham in January 2024 after less than three months in charge, said he was \u201creally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-343851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115027150467183601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}