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Roy Keane

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Keith S30S said:
We have just spent a relative lot of money on pretty much the same type of players Keane bought in the Championship.

Connolly, see Defoe
Ross Wallace, see Roberts
Varga, Batth
Kavanagh, see Evans (obviously already here).

We have a strong squad that needs proper management.
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Keane is not right in the head for managment. I believe he would put as many players off than he would attract. What has he really done? One promotion based on bullying.
 

SebastienELLISbexter said:
Also, you think Dan Neil for example sees him as the angry man off the telly, rather than one of the greatest midfielders of the premier league? Absolute nonsense. Footballers respect top level achievements , regardless of generation.
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Haven't people said Embo grew up a Man Utd fan? If that's true he will be one of his heroes
 
Nicky Winterwasp said:
You could spin that another way, this week we brought in a player who hasn't kicked a ball in months & turns 40 in about 6 months and a manager who hasn't managed for over 10 years!
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He's had plenty of jobs within the game and has been analysing the game at the top level for years. He's hardly been at home in the garden
 
I think any manager would struggle with our unbalanced squad. For all the stats and the power speak, we've ended up with a squad with five specialist defenders and two strikers.
 
Keith S30S said:
Makes no sense to appoint someone who will reinvigorate most of the fans and the whole club? Someone who will have an immediate impact and momentum.

Make no mistake we are starting down the barrel of yet another season in this dreadful backwater of a league. In the last 25 years the biggest and most immediate transformation of the team was performed by Roy Keane. He took a team with no confidence and no points to Champions in 9 months.

We now need a miracle to achieve automatic promotion. If we end up in the play offs we need to buck a losing trend that started 35 years ago!

Roy Keane is the man to entrust in performing an unlikely miracle. Partly because the other obvious options are so uninspiring and frankly demoralising.

Haway Roy, set the bandwagon away!
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Spot on Keith.
It's a leap of faith whoever we appoint and we will need to be patient in the long term when we eventually find that European style coach to fit the new DOF structure. That's for the future.
In the short term we have a time critical situation to rescue promotion; you are absolutely correct in saying we were drifting out of contention. There is no doubt that under Johnson we would have failed and failed in the playoffs and that's why he had to go.
KLD has rolled the dice. He's left us without a coach at a pivotal moment of the season.
We need Keane as much as Keane needs Sunderland.
 
Mackem00 said:
It goes against everything most of us said we were buying into just one year ago.
At least when he was last here he was still relevant as a name to the players we had or then bought in the transfer window. Players like Kavanagh, Connolly, Edwards, the young ManU lads. This time our players know him as the angry man off sky who hasn't done owt of note in management for over ten years. Baffling the way our support seems to fawn over certain ex players/manager's like lovestruck teenagers. Always looking to the past.
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Mackem00 said:
It goes against everything most of us said we were buying into just one year ago.
At least when he was last here he was still relevant as a name to the players we had or then bought in the transfer window. Players like Kavanagh, Connolly, Edwards, the young ManU lads. This time our players know him as the angry man off sky who hasn't done owt of note in management for over ten years. Baffling the way our support seems to fawn over certain ex players/manager's like lovestruck teenagers. Always looking to the past.
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Your not allowed mate to put up a reasonable statement totally agree we you. How about looking abroad or for a younger up coming coach.
 
redgauntlet said:
Keane is not right in the head for managment. I believe he would put as many players off than he would attract. What has he really done? One promotion based on bullying.
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What proof do you have promotion was based on bullying?

I've heard loads of stories of players at the time and none mention bullying. Top man management though.

Out of interest are you one who rates Di Canio? That was management by fear and bullying
 
redgauntlet said:
Keane is not right in the head for managment. I believe he would put as many players off than he would attract. What has he really done? One promotion based on bullying.
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We were at rock bottom when he took over. Last time we were relegated we were the same and went straight down another level!

Keane turned us from hopeless to f***ing Champions. An amazing achievement. He easily kept us in the premier league first season too.

Beheadie Howe has just spent £90M to try to keep the mags up. I seriously doubt he'll do it so don't trot out the it's only money bullshit. He was a very good manager.
 
Vauxie said:
Wasn't onboard with Defoesy coming but hey ho things change.
So things might take off on Saturday with both Keane and Defoesy in the dressing room.
Reckon the crowd will be bouncing
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To be honest Vauxie, I said on another thread the other day that if Keane were to be appointed in the next few days, alongside the Defoe signing then the chances of an absolute full house on Saturday is a realistic possibility.
 
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