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Roy Keane

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Dilligaf60 said:
I’m not either. Not by a long chalk. But for where we are in the season and in the league, f**k it, why not. Shit or bust. It’ll either be a runaway success or an absolute disaster with nowt in between. I hate mediocrity on a football pitch so bring it on.
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Same here. For me I wanted someone who fitted into what we are trying to do - young, hungry coach with modern attacking ideas. Now that we are facing the prospect of Keane coming back I am pretty excited.
 
Publicly out there now that Keane is interested and being interviewed for the job which I think for what it's worth means it is practically nailed on for no other reason than how could you give the fanbase in one hand all the excitement emotion and belief in Roy Keane and then hand us Grant McCann....and this is no disrespect to McCann as it's a hard enough job but he would be seen as the man Keane was turned down for
 
Mallard said:
On the overlap Roy Keane said there were two professionals who were the worst he has ever worked with at Villa and now are on the media preaching about professionalism, I did always wonder if it was Gabby and Bent
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Even Stan Collymore called him out saying the senior players we’re taking the piss and trying to run the dressing room when they had Remi Garde as manager, obviously he wouldn’t have had it his own way with Keane their. Some players want to take the piss and have an easy life Keane won’t allow that but the players who work hard Henderson, Leadbitter etc love him says it all. Exactly what we need!
 
chriswallace85 said:
End of the day, Roy Keane is one of the players who invented and defined the modern game. Ok he doesn't like Abba in the dressing room and probably hasn't got a PS5, but so what? He'll have a lad there in the dressing room in Jermain Defoe who he just needs to point to and say look lads, this is what a footballer looks like. This is how you carve a career from the game. Let's gan out and win some games.
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Spot on. After the complicated, disoriented waffle from Johnson the players could benefited from some straight talking. I reckon the confidence and belief generated from Keane and Defoe would be infectious
 
cauldbairn said:
I'm not sure if personality clashes were the problem with the new signings or Keane's struggles to mould a team out of them, there were plenty of jokes about him using a lottery for the selection and I remember his substitutions being odd towards the end.

That said I'd have him back for the level we're at now, no doubt.
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I just think we all were overreaching at the time, Keane included. Great first two seasons and everybody became obsessed with 'the next level'. We were still banging on about the next level six years after he left.

Short upset the apple cart more than anyone, and everybody got impatient. The fans were anxious over his contract situation, which Keane has now addressed in the Neville interview, and you have to say he couldn't have really been fairer. But that's one of the nuances that us fans never get wind of 'til the books are written years later.
 
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