Tom Brady Slammed By Former Coach Over 'Very Unfair' Treatment

Tom Brady may be the greatest NFL player of all-time, but being a seven-time Super Bowl champion with 15 Pro Bowls and three NFL MVP awards doesn't mean he knows everything about everything.

Even before he retired, Brady began working as a sports investor and shareholder. One of his more recent forays into sports ownership was his purchase of a minority stake in the English soccer club Birmingham City. Brady decided to turn that venture into a full Amazon documentary series about the club. But there was one moment in that documentary series that got a lot of people upset.

In one episode, Brady spoke about then-manager Wayne Rooney - a playing legend in his own right - and said he was "worried about [Rooney's] work ethic"

"I'm a little worried about our head coach's [Rooney's] work ethic," Brady said in private. "I mean, I don't know, I don't have great instincts on that."

Rooney was ultimately fired by the team but the leadership change didn't save the club from relegation. The team was demoted from the second division to the third division for the first time in three decades.

Nevertheless, Brady's comments didn't go over well with fans in England.

Rooney didn't take kindly to that

Rooney ranks among the most accomplished English soccer stars of the 21st century. He won five Premier League titles and a Champions League cup with Manchester United and is the prestigious club's all-time leading goal scorer. He has won countless accolades and served was the best player on the England national football team for several World Cup appearances.

So when Rooney heard what Brady said about him, he went off. On the most recent episode of his Wayne Rooney Show, Rooney slammed Brady for not understanding soccer. While he acknowledged what a hard worker Brady is, he declared that Brady was "very unfair" in the way the NFL legend portrayed him.

“I think Tom came in once, which was the day before a game where the days are a little bit lighter anyway, and I don’t think he really understood football that well,” Rooney said, via ESPN. “But what he does understand is, he’s a hard worker, we know that.

“Football is not NFL,” Rooney said. “NFL works for three months a year. Players do need rest as well, so I think he’s very unfair, the way he’s come out and portrayed that..."

But Rooney maintained that he still respects Brady despite the apparent insult. He also wished his former team the best moving forward.

“Listen, I respect Tom Brady massively,” Rooney said. “He’s one of the greatest, if not the greatest athletes of all time and Birmingham do look like they’re getting it right now, which is good and I think what they have done is got the players out that they needed to get out.”