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Keane on why he turned

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He was never coming for £8-10k a week like so many on here thought.The blokes finished with management.
 
oddbod said:
Wright gave it away when he said "everything has to be right upstairs" Your right it was a huge step for keane to leave a well paid job to manage a league one outfit..I doubt he would get another if he failed!If He is supposedly quoted as saying the money wasn't right (i have not read it) well that might mean his personal remuneration wasn't large enough or the package from the board to support the team ongoing wasn't good enough! So yes my personal opinion that the body language of keane and his demeanour on that tv programme (and his colleagues on the show) was of somebody who had been offered the job and yes he has seem behind the curtain and not liked the the look of the backroom boys.

The real question though is there any constraints on KLD freedom to act with his "controlling interest" by the very fact that the financial package for the club is choked because Donald charlie and Santi have to fund 59% of the moneys going forward.............if you don't think that's the crux of our failures over the last we years? ,,,well I do!

Whatever the motives for keane not taking the job..We are demonstratively not "right" in the "upstairs department" and until that changes for the better we are going to be stuck (bookmark this)in a cycle of promotion /relegation for the foreseeable future. The sad thing though it will be championship/league one shitshow at best until we purge the rot out of the ownership group.
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I couldn’t agree more on the last paragraph
 
Mackem2017 said:
Us down ffs hit send too quick
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More to the point.....

Aource: Irish Examiner from today
CIAN LOCKE


Roy Keane turned down the Sunderland job because he couldn't agree contract terms with the club, the Corkman revealed last night.
Speaking at Gary Neville's Manchester show The Overlap Live, Keane addressed for the first time his links with a return to the Sunderland hotseat.
After protracted talks, Keane rejected the opportunity to return before Alex Neil was appointed.
Keane last night suggested the breakdown in talks was down to a failure to agree financial terms.
“As usual it came down to money," Keane joked. “There’s always offers of work, but the deal just didn’t fall into place last week.
“There’s lots of pitfalls as an ex-player, but you’ve got to keep yourself busy. But everything has got to be right, the contract and the challenge."
Keane added: "I've said it before. The deal has to be right for everyone.
"It didn't fall into place last week. It wasn't meant to be.
"Everything has to be right. The right challenge. The right contract. You have to fancy it.
'I've not had that opportunity the last few years. There has not been a club where I think, "I'm the right fit for that club."
 
The Situation said:
It was a sensible decision on his part.

Why on earth would any manager with a bit of common sense work for a club who's apparent previous ownership group control significantly more of the club than the so-called current owner?
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Money
they are on a win win situation come in on top money doesn’t really matter if they fail as if sacked get a wedge too go then get another job and repeat
Obviously we weren’t offering enough to temp RK
We’re we not giving the great escape managers 1 million bonus to stay up them days are gone
 
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Karl said:
People should 've listened to ME whenever I pontificated on the Keane question. I had perfect a priori insight into what drives this particular irish gobshite and why we ought to pull the trigger on this animal.
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:lol: ;)
 
Sons of The Wear said:
It’s not. It’s paying good money to incompetent people on and off the pitch. Byrne, Bain, Moyes, Grayson, Coleman, Parkinson etc etc etc….

Invest in quality, not on third rate shite who should never have been anywhere near SAFC.
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Notice you never mentioned any players, the likes of Rodwell and the rest of the shite getting paid premiership wages as we plummeted through the leagues
 
ToneSAFC73 said:
Nobody knows what he asked for but im pretty sure he would know he couldn't get 50k a week in league 1 and nobody knows what he was offered. Lets be honest it wouldnt be suprising if the club offered him a crap deal knowing fine well he would reject it so they can come out and say they tried. I wouldn't put it past the club to do something like that.
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The £50k thing was from Storey, so I doubt it’s correct. That said, however, Keane would have wanted a considerably better package then LJ, which was always going to be a stumbling block.

I’m also not that convinced his heart was ever in it. I know all the “unfinished business” stuff but he has a very comfortable job and walking away wouldn’t have been an easy decision.

I’m not defending the club btw as they fucked up hugely. As I keep saying, they should have appointed Neil immediately
 
Hongkongphooey said:
Notice you never mentioned any players, the likes of Rodwell and the rest of the shite getting paid premiership wages as we plummeted through the leagues
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You should read more thoroughly. “Paying good money to incompetent people on and off the pitch”.

On the pitch..who did you think I was referring to? The groundsman and the tea wifey?
 
Hank Scorpio said:
The sad thing is mate, there are fans on here that would have handed Keane a ridiculous contact, no matter what the consequences were.
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Correct, already some have posted that the club should have paid and bowed down to what he wanted.
Sons of The Wear said:
You should read more thoroughly. “Paying good money to incompetent people on and off the pitch”.

On the pitch..who did you think I was referring to? The groundsman and the tea wifey?
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Well the groundsman is getting paid too much for a kick off, unless the owners asked for a potato field.
 
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Reading through the first few pages and seeing Keane getting nowt but pelters 🤣

And because he has turned us down, there seems to be some very fickle mag'esque type comments.

Maybe, the bloke turned us down after meeting Del, Boy and Salmon pants, only to realise that he wasn't going to get the backing he needed to succeed.

Sensible bloke imo.
 
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JaFlan86 said:
Reading through the first few pages and seeing Keane getting nowt but pelters 🤣

And because he has turned us down, there seems to be some very fickle mag'esque type comments.

Maybe, the bloke turned us down after meeting Del, Boy and Salmon pants, only to realise that he wasn't going to get the backing he needed to succeed.

Sensible bloke imo.
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At 40-50k a week it was never happening at this level.Iam sure he was aware of the owners financial short comings well before his interview,and all the more reason for him not to of bothered even turning up for the interview.
 
There was lots is excitement on here with the prospect of Keane coming back. But let's be honest, at the first sign of trouble the toys would've been oot the pram and he'd of buggered off yem.
 
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