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Roy Keane

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TDalt said:
90% of jobs don’t have enough resource to fit the expectations though, so even a good manager will inevitability improve the clubs league position but then maybe go backwards. People get sold, players go off the boil, they get too old, get stale at a club, a new signing doesn’t work etc. I’m no big fan of Neil but he did a decent job at Preston, considering their infrastructure, income and budget. The big question for me isn’t between Keane, Neil, Lennon, McCann etc, who are all poor, poor choices, it’s why these people are even considered in the first place. KLD and Speakman have lost me on this one, whoever the manager is. They’re as bad as Short and all the rest.
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I agree, the whole idea of the structure is to have plans in place so a manager comes and goes and the players for the system are in place and it's a smooth transition. It's pure negligence not to have people in mind or lined up especially give the comment that it wasn't just the Bolton game why Johnson got sacked, it was an accumulation of things. If so then they should have been well down the road in planning.
 
LukeJH96 said:
Why are they interviewing candidates if it’s agreed. This is literally mental. There is no coming back for Speakman if this doesn’t happen.
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Of course if he Roy Keane is announced this afternoon that's a job for life for Speakman - imagine that sacking Johnson, bringing in Defoe and then appointing Roy Keane all in a week. Would deserve the freedom of the city.
 
It is not Keane’s way to rush things. Remember the Saturday morning that LJ was announced as Manager, he took charge of the game that afternoon (and lost).
When Keane was announced as Sunderland Manager he was in the stands as Quinn took charge of the game.
 
Pisses me off as well that the local media these days are literally just mouth pieces for the club. Look at Phil Smith from the Echo. There is hardly and opinion or exclusives. They just spout off whatever the club has told them.
 
The Situation said:
Another thing to note is that all of these managers we are interviewing/interested in, are currently out of work.

It should make the process a lot quicker/easier.

It really is beyond belief to sack a manager on Sunday, and not to have an (out of work replacement) sorted more than 7 days later, especially with a game tomorrow and Saturday upcoming.

As I said, I like a lot of what they've done to-date, but this is really amateur hour.
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They seem determined to make things more difficult than they should be
 
10 Gary Rowells said:
Of course if he Roy Keane is announced this afternoon that's a job for life for Speakman - imagine that sacking Johnson, bringing in Defoe and then appointing Roy Keane all in a week. Would deserve the freedom of the city.
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Depends what the "job" for Speakman entails. If it entails putting his nose in to first team affairs, he's not qualified for that job and he has no experience in first team football.
 
Nelson! said:
What a ridiculous thing to say. Given the position he relegated them from the last time he was in the Championship they have every right to worry he would do it again, they watch the team every week and can see the problems persisting. He’s a bluffer and I can’t believe so many can’t work that out.
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Better bluffer than we've hired of late. And better than Johnson too.
 
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