TOM BRADY will try to lure Wayne Rooney back to England with Birmingham City.
DC United boss Rooney is understood to be seriously interested in the project being put together by the new St Andrews hierarchy, including seven-time NFL Superbowl champion Brady.
GettyWayne Rooney is ‘frustrated’ over a lack of contract talks with his club DC United and it’s thought he’d be interested in bossing Birmingham[/caption]
PABrum co-owner Tom Brady likes the idea of a famous football figure like Rooney joining his huge new project[/caption]
Minority owner Brady, 46, sees Rooney as a global figure that could tempt big names to the Championship club and lead them back to the Premier League in the near future.
It is understood the ex-American football star has been in constant touch with the Manchester United and England legend.
And SunSport has been told Rooney would love to come home for the right opportunity.
Joining Birmingham would also allow Rooney, his wife Coleen and their four sons to return to their lavish £20million Cheshire mansion.
Current boss John Eustace, 43, has the Blues flying in fourth place in the Championship after three wins and two draws in an impressive start.
But he is a target for Rangers after Michael Beale lost two of the club’s first four league games, including Sunday’s 1-0 home defeat to bitter rivals Celtic.
His side were also dumped out of the Champions League with a 7-3 aggregate play-off defeat to Dutch outfit PSV.
Rooney always planned to manage another English club after joining DC United 14 months ago.
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He left for the MLS club — which he also played for from 2018-19 — after resigning as manager of Derby in June 2022 with the club in administration and relegated to League One following a 21-point deduction.
Now he is frustrated by a lack of talks with DC United’s owners over a new deal to replace his contract that expires in December with the Washington-based club sitting ninth in the table.
He recently admitted: “I am slightly disappointed and frustrated there has been no contact for two months.
“We asked about a new deal. We can sit down and talk about it but we haven’t heard back.
“We asked to sit down and speak because planning for next season needs to go ahead.
“So we asked two months ago where everything was at, are we moving forward or not moving forward — if that’s the case from their point of view — and we haven’t heard back.
“That’s frustrating because, either way, I’d rather know what’s the plan because we have to plan for next season. We need to do it earlier rather than later.”
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