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Roy Keane

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HoxtonMackem said:
2 good seasons*

Hardly bottled it. Was his first job in management. Was ultimately inexperienced in the PL and it was time for us to part ways at the time. Didn't disgrace the club like Moyes for example at the end either.

Some people talk utter dirt about him which is mental considering where he took us from.

Not been a feel good factor around the entire City like that since (maybe with BSA). People forget how exciting those times were.
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2007-8 wasn't a good season, we lost 21 games and only won 11.

They were exciting times, that doesn't mean they will be again.
 
Binxy said:
Not really they've just renamed it the high press.
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High press is what City and Liverpool play. It's completely different. We're using a data approach to recruitment and want to sign young players. Would Keane accept that? He also was critical of sports science and had a go at coaches like Klopp for using it. I don't think he's cut out for the modern game.
 
Twisted said:
A fair amount of his signings worked out, not sure i agree they far outweighed the bad but it's more than his scattergun approach led to us being stuck with alot of players on big contracts when they were no use to us (some were never even useful at all, did david healy ever even play for us? we were stuck with him for years iirc)
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Name them. This was far more true of Steve Bruce than it was Roy Keane.
 
Shibby Safc said:
I don't think so, many remember Keano for establishing high standards at the club, remember when we best shef wed away 4-2 I think it was and he went mental because we almost threw it away? He raised the entire professionalism and standards across the place and took us to promotion and kept us there. He is a massive character, tell me last time we had a manager do well here who wasn't a larger than life character? Keane, Sam, McCarthy to certain extent, Reid.

Grayson, Ross, Parkinson do not have the characteristics to succeed here.
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Was that the air guitar failed record game with saxon. Was a good day.
 
Twisted said:
nah you're ok thanks, it was nearly 20 years ago :lol:

if you think he was great in the transfer market thats fine, it's ok for us to disagree
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That's because you can't. He never really saddled us with anybody on a big contract that was no use. McCartney is the closest you'll get, but he featured regularly under Keane and Sbragia, and in Bruce's first season. It wasn't 'til he picked up a couple of injuries and fell out of favour that he disappeared.

Keane was actually quite decent at moving players on that either didn't fit in or weren't up to it.
 
Black Cat Gypsy said:
High press is what City and Liverpool play. It's completely different. We're using a data approach to recruitment and want to sign young players. Would Keane accept that? He also was critical of sports science and had a go at coaches like Klopp for using it. I don't think he's cut out for the modern game.
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Roy Keane got the cameras installed at the SOL to collect data on the players. Ground covered, etc etc. He isn't some dinosaur, far from it.
 
chriswallace85 said:
That's because you can't. He never really saddled us with anybody on a big contract that was no use. McCartney is the closest you'll get, but he featured regularly under Keane and Sbragia, and in Bruce's first season. It wasn't 'til he picked up a couple of injuries and fell out of favour that he disappeared.

Keane was actually quite decent at moving players on that either didn't fit in or weren't up to it.
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aye, except the likes of the already mentioned healy who sat on the bench for 3 of 4 years. seem to remember having high hopes for russell anderson anarl but not sure he ever made an appearance either. but you're right, i can't really remember random players from nearly 2 decades ago that barely made an impact on our team, i just remember at the time it felt like alot of money was wasted. his most successful signing id have said was kenywne jones, luckily nugent turned us down, and we barely made a profit on him in the end :neutral:

but it's all about opinions like. i think he did a tremendous job in his first season here, and did an ok job at first in the prem which slowly petered out. i just don't get the love in for him on here, especially wanting him back
 
Twisted said:
aye, except the likes of the already mentioned healy who sat on the bench for 3 of 4 years. seem to remember having high hopes for russell anderson anarl but not sure he ever made an appearance either. but you're right, i can't really remember random players from nearly 2 decades ago that barely made an impact on our team, i just remember at the time it felt like alot of money was wasted. his most successful signing id have said was kenywne jones, luckily nugent turned us down, and we barely made a profit on him in the end :neutral:

but it's all about opinions like. i think he did a tremendous job in his first season here, and did an ok job at first in the prem which slowly petered out. i just don't get the love in for him on here, especially wanting him back
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They cost buttons man. Squad players who wound up out on loan. Happens all the time.
 
chriswallace85 said:
They cost buttons man. Squad players who wound up out on loan. Happens all the time.
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If we loaned them out they weren't squad players? if you're gonna call his good signing good and his shite signings don't count then yeah, i can see why you'd think he was mint in the transfer market.

we don't agree, that's fine.
 
Drexl said:
You can guarantee he wouldn’t settle for anything less than everything the players have. On a 6 month contract. Option of another year or 2 if he gets us up. Let’s roll the dice.

There’s no one else I’ve heard so far that sounds exciting.
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That’s actually not a bad shout. He can’t sign anyone now so he‘d have to go with speakman’s squad. He‘d know by the end of the season if he can work in the clubs structure and we’d know if he’s any good as a head coach.
 
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