On Tuesday, England legend Wayne Rooney was fired as manager of second-tier club Birmingham after 15 games.

Since his controversial appointment in October, Rooney has only won two games. Birmingham began the season sixth in the Championship and has since dropped to 20th.

The team was taken over by a corporation headed by American investor Tom Wagner last summer, and it fired popular coach John Eustace, who had been in charge for 15 months and had kept the club from relegation.

“Birmingham City has today parted company with manager Wayne Rooney and first-team coach Carl Robinson,” the club announced in a statement. “Despite their best efforts, the results have fallen short of the initial expectations.” As a result, the board believes that a management change is in the best interests of the football club.”

Birmingham lost 3-0 to Leeds on Monday, and fans demanded that Rooney, the former Manchester United and England striker, be fired.

“Football is a results business — and I recognize they have not been at the level I wanted them to be,” Rooney said in a statement. “However, time is the most precious commodity a manager requires and I do not believe 13 weeks was sufficient to oversee the changes that were needed.”

Rooney, 38, added that it “will take some time for me to get over this setback,” but that he will eventually “prepare for the next opportunity in my journey as a manager.”

He arrived in Birmingham in early October after spending a complete season as manager of D.C. United in Major League Soccer. Rooney formerly managed Derby County in the second division.

Birmingham last competed in the Premier League in 2011, the same year it won the English League Cup, one of the club’s two major trophies in its 148-year history.