Roy Keane to Leicester City?

Squelchy

Is this just utter pony talk or has anyone heard anything concrete?

I hope it's true, just for the lulz.

Paully D

I know for a fact Lee Clarke spoke to the owners last week about it (I posted it on here IIRC). No idea about Keane though, hopefully it's true. Football's worse off without him involved.

Jax Teller

Heard he went from 5/1 to 6/4 today for the job .

James__10

Lee Clark is the bookies favourtie to succeed Sven as Leicster manager at 2/5 coming in at second is Mark Hughes at 5/2 then Roy Keane at 3/1 thats according to skybet.

Mitch Connor

Roy Keane is set to take over, just as he was at Forest, and Iceland.

premierstone

As a Celtic fan please, please, please let this be true and keep him away from paradise.

stooge

premierstone wrote: »

As a Celtic fan please, please, please let this be true and keep him away from paradise.

Is that because Neil Lennon is doing such a great job?? :rolleyes:

grenache

All i can say is thank fcuk Steve Cotterill got the Forest job ahead of Keane. Don't get me wrong, he can still be a top manager, he's shown he has ability through his spell at Sunderland. But until he learns to stop ruling by fear and cajole players other than by tearing their heads off, he'll never be anything more than a journey man.

ironbluedun

the faros a too good a job for him

Paully D

grenache wrote: »

All i can say is thank fcuk Steve Cotterill got the Forest job ahead of Keane. Don't get me wrong, he can still be a top manager, he's shown he has ability through his spell at Sunderland. But until he learns to stop ruling by fear and cajole players other than by tearing their heads off, he'll never be anything more than a journey man.

Says more about the modern day footballer than Keane, IMO.

premierstone

stooge wrote: »

Is that because Neil Lennon is doing such a great job?? :rolleyes:

Obviously Neil Lennon needs to be replaced and my worry is that Keane, who's record is as bad, would replace him.... now can you understand and whats wrong with your eyes??

ILikeBananas

premierstone wrote: »

As a Celtic fan please, please, please let this be true and keep him away from paradise.

lol what?

Mr.Crinklewood

ironbluedun wrote: »

the faros a too good a job for him

Did not know that Egypt were after a manager.

willowthewisp

Will he have the beard on?

Not sure he's suited to management tbh.

Can't imagine him ever staying for a sustained period as manager of a club.

I could be wrong of course...

Kingdom Bhoy

Paully D wrote: »

Says more about the modern day footballer than Keane, IMO.

Spot on works for Fergie and did for Brian Clough.

Neil3030

Paully D wrote: »

Says more about the modern day footballer than Keane, IMO.

Ehm... no it doesn't! Inflexible management style will only get you so far, regardless of what profession you are in.

That_Guy

Looks like Lee Clark is going to take over. Wish him the best of luck. Super manager.

premierstone

ILikeBananas wrote: »

lol what?

Celtic Park, Parkhead, Paradise..........its where Celtic F.C. play their home games, it has been known as Paradise since 1892 so please keep up

Mr Alan

Kingdom Bhoy wrote: »

Spot on works for Fergie and did for Brian Clough.

Clough was clearly a different era.

And Fergie panders to modern day prima donna footballers. He has "evolved".

Paully D

That_Guy wrote: »

Looks like Lee Clark is going to take over. Wish him the best of luck. Super manager.

Hopefully he fails miserably. The little coward.

Gillington

Lee Clark is doing a tremendous job at Huddersfield and I can see why Leicester want him but me personally i'd stay at uddersfield and finish what i started,I'd get much more satisfaction.

Leicester would suit Keane as he'd have a few bob to play around with but he could also fail spectacularly

premierstone

Paully D wrote: »

Hopefully he fails miserably. The little coward.

Wheres the hate coming from?? Are you a Sunderland fan?

Mountjoy Mugger

You don't have to be a Sunderland fan to despise him...

premierstone

Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »

You don't have to be a Sunderland fan to despise him...

I never really had any thoughts towards him either way tbh and wasnt aware he was somewhat of a hate figure, did I miss something?

Paully D

premierstone wrote: »

Wheres the hate coming from?? Are you a Sunderland fan?

Yep, I'm a Sunderland fan. Clarke played for us for a few seasons and at the end of one season he went to watch Newcastle play in an FA Cup final where he was pictured with a ''Sad Mackem Bastards'' t-shirt on.



He was sold immediately and over the next few seasons was due to face Sunderland 3 times IIRC. He always picked up a ''knock'' on the Wednesday or Thursday and never lined up against us.

Also, I don't see what people see in him as a manager myself. He's spent decent money and since 2008 has failed to get Huddersfield promoted, always bottling it when it really matters. This unbeaten record he has is all well and good but it means nothing if he doesn't do it at the business end of the season. I'd advise him to take the Leicester job while his stock is high as he'll get a nice compensation package when he blows it there.

WoollyRedHat

I have got it on authoriative advice ( Daily Mail, beacon of hope) that Lee Clark will not be leaving Huddersfield and that Roy Keane looks like to be frontrunner again-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2057083/Lee-Clark-staying-Huddersfield-Leicester-close-Roy-Keane.html

Paparazzo

Kingdom Bhoy wrote: »

Spot on works for Fergie and did for Brian Clough.

You need tatical awareness and ability to buy in the right players too. Fergie and Clough had that. Think the point was, that all Keane knows is to shout.

ironbluedun

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Did not know that Egypt were after a manager.

lol,, your right...sure he would only bollick them for building those pyramids :pac::pac:

amiable

Mark Hughes will get this job.

Get on now

Ulysses Gaze

Gillington wrote: »

Lee Clark is doing a tremendous job at Huddersfield and I can see why Leicester want him but me personally i'd stay at uddersfield and finish what i started,I'd get much more satisfaction.

Leicester would suit Keane as he'd have a few bob to play around with but he could also fail spectacularly

Keane had a few bob at Ipswich and failed.

It'll be no different at Leicester if he gets the job.

parker kent

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Keane had a few bob at Ipswich and failed.

It'll be no different at Leicester if he gets the job.

He did well at Sunderland. He was poor at Ipswich. Why do you just count the Ipswich role? Ipswich didn't have that much money either, I think they were offering relatively low wages.

Keane could do well at another Championship club. Given he has already won the league as a manager, he deserves at least one more shot at it.

grenache

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Keane had a few bob at Ipswich and failed.

It'll be no different at Leicester if he gets the job.

Keane was given relatively little money at Ipswich, in comparison to the 10 or 15 million he would be handed at Leicester. All the players he bought while at Ipswich, the likes of Daryl Murphy, were average at best.

farna_boy

The Leicester Fans don't seem to enamoured with the idea:

Some Quotes from the first page:

The bubble of illusion that because ‘he was a great player, he would be a great manager’ soon burst. I don’t hate him, I just don’t rate him as a manager

Do we really need to go through this again? Hes an obnoxious, arrogant cretin who was a wanker when he played football, and remains a wanker now hes a “manager”

You can always tell when he thinks the world is against him because he grows a massive beard. Very moody and not the sort of guy that builds team spirit. Could start a fight in a phone box

Don’t rate him as a manager and HATE him as a bloke

I’d rather have Kim Jong Il.

Paully D

Any Leicester fans who don't want Keane as their manager are obviously so far up their own arseholes they can't see things logically.

They're not exactly Manchester United, are they? They won't be attracting the likes of Villas-Boas, Mourinho or Sir Alex.

Keane has a record already of getting a club who'll give him a bit of money to spend out of the Championship and keeping them in the Premier League.

He'd give the club a bit of professionalism, get the players in line fairly quickly, and he'd certainly give it a better go than the likes of Lee Clarke.

Quite frankly they don't deserve him if that's their attitude.

Mr Alan

Mark Hughes is a better manager than Roy Keane.

Maybe they just want him instead?

paddy978

With the right players, Roy would have Leicester playing in the Barclays Premier League within 3 years.

Ulysses Gaze

grenache wrote: »

Keane was given relatively little money at Ipswich, in comparison to the 10 or 15 million he would be handed at Leicester. All the players he bought while at Ipswich, the likes of Daryl Murphy, were average at best.

..and a lot of the players he bought at the club he did "so well" at (Sunderland) were little better than average and how much did he blow there?

He'd give the club a bit of professionalism, get the players in line fairly quickly, and he'd certainly give it a better go than the likes of Lee Clarke.

...and he'll fall out with three quarters of the squad. Bring in players who he knows. Fall out with them and be out of there in 18 months (either sacked or he'll walk) having blown millions of pounds on average (or worse) players..

Mr Alan

Mr Alan wrote: »

Mark Hughes is a better manager than Roy Keane.

Maybe they just want him instead?

Hughes is a level or two above Keane alright

Paully D

Mr Alan wrote: »

Mark Hughes is a better manager than Roy Keane.

Maybe they just want him instead?

I agree, however, they need to get into the real world. Hughes wouldn't give them the time of day.

Paully D

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

..and a lot of the players he bought at the club he did "so well" at (Sunderland) were little better than average and how much did he blow there?



...and he'll fall out with three quarters of the squad. Bring in players who he knows. Fall out with them and be out of there in 18 months (either sacked or he'll walk) having blown millions of pounds on average (or worse) players..

Why the ''so well'' in brackets? He took Sunderland from the bottom of the Championship, gave us our pride back and kept us in the Premier League, leaving when he knew the time was right rather than hanging on another few months for a pay-off. Anyone he thinks he didn't do well at Sunderland is, quite frankly, a clown.

He spent about £6m on getting promoted which was the same as the likes of Birmingham, West Brom and Southampton spent in the same season. On gaining promotion he spent £10 on Chopra and Jones who scored the goals which kept us up and Jones was sold for a profit with Chopra at £500,000 of a loss. He overspent on Gordon but he's a cracking goalkeeper who's been desperatly unlucky with injury, and attracted the likes of Evans to the club on loan. Flops such as Prica, Anderson and Higginbotham were bought but no more than £2m was spent on either player.

Second season he got the likes of Cisse to the club, Malbranque too. Diouf and Chimbonda didn't work out but what manager doesn't make mistakes?

The wage bill was far too high but Keane's lack of experience along with a naive board when it came to footballing contracts mean the blame can't just be put on him for that.

I'm sure the Blackpool's, Hull's etc wish they had spent the money and still been in the league now rather than having a season in the sun and being happy with that.

parker kent

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

....and he'll fall out with three quarters of the squad. Bring in players who he knows. Fall out with them and be out of there in 18 months (either sacked or he'll walk) having blown millions of pounds on average (or worse) players..

Or get them promoted and keep them in the Premiership if he follows his first 18 months at Sunderland.

Le King

Mr Alan wrote: »

Mark Hughes is a better manager than Roy Keane.

Maybe they just want him instead?

Why would Hughes go to a Championship side? I suppose they have a few bob to spend but you get the feeling Hughes must be turning down a lot of jobs.

Keane wouldn't be a bad choice IMO.

Carcharodon

Paully D wrote: »

Any Leicester fans who don't want Keane as their manager are obviously so far up their own arseholes they can't see things logically.

They're not exactly Manchester United, are they? They won't be attracting the likes of Villas-Boas, Mourinho or Sir Alex.

Keane has a record already of getting a club who'll give him a bit of money to spend out of the Championship and keeping them in the Premier League.

He'd give the club a bit of professionalism, get the players in line fairly quickly, and he'd certainly give it a better go than the likes of Lee Clarke.

Quite frankly they don't deserve him if that's their attitude.

Or maybe they just don't see Keane as the right fit for their club, they are entitled to that opinion are they not.
The whole Keane thing has been done to death but he doesn't have an exactly unblemished managerial cv does he and I think fans have every right to question his ability to have a really positive influence on their club.

Thanx 4 The Fish

paddy978 wrote: »

With the right players, Roy would have Leicester playing in the Barclays Premier League within 3 years.

With the right players any manager would have them in the premiership. That is the thing about the right players.

Paparazzo

Didn't he sign Paul McShane at Sunderland?
And I remember an Ipswich fan on here saying he sold every half decent youth team player for a pittance and bought in a load of "experienced" dross.
His championship win with sunderland was a long time ago, and in fairness, I don't think any fan would be delighted with his appointment as manager to their club. Leicester mightn't be man-u, but that doesn't mean they should be happy with keane purely because he's a big name.

I’d rather have Kim Jong Il.

I laughed at that one

farna_boy

Paparazzo wrote: »

Didn't he sign Paul McShane at Sunderland?
And I remember an Ipswich fan on here saying he sold every half decent youth team player for a pittance and bought in a load of "experienced" dross.
His championship win with sunderland was a long time ago, and in fairness, I don't think any fan would be delighted with his appointment as manager to their club. Leicester mightn't be man-u, but that doesn't mean they should be happy with keane purely because he's a big name.


I laughed at that one

The best/worst quote I saw was about 5 pages in...

I'd rather have a threesome with my parents

To say he is not liked, may have been a bit of an understatment

Paparazzo

farna_boy wrote: »

The best/worst quote I saw was about 5 pages in...



To say he is not liked, may have been a bit of an understatment

Any English soccer fan I've met hated him. Respected him as a player, but didn't like him as a person.
Would anyone hear think he deserves another shot at management or Leicester should be happy to have him if he was a frenchman with the exact same managerial record?

farna_boy

Paparazzo wrote: »

Any English soccer fan I've met hated him. Respected him as a player, but didn't like him as a person.
Would anyone hear think he deserves another shot at management or Leicester should be happy to have him if he was a frenchman with the exact same managerial record?

I don't think the fact that he is Irish has anything to do with the way English fans view him although I think it is a reason why so many Irish fans feel like they should support him.

To be honest, I don't like Roy Keane, for reasons I won't go into here because every possible discussion about him has happened a million times before. Yes he was a good player for both United and Ireland but that is about all the good I can say about him (and even that is hard as an Arsenal fan ). His managerial record has been so-so as of yet but I can understand why so many people don't like him.

Possibly the best way I can describe it is he is not the type of person I would want to go drinking with. Not because he played for Utd, not because of Saipan, not even because of Alfie Haaland. It's just that I know that if we were on a night out and someone said something, even something flippant, he would probably blow it out of all proportion.

No matter how much you like him, I don't think that anyone can disagree he is a very angry man. Now using this as a managerial tactic can work but I would imagine it does have limited impact, in a similar way that some people work well under pressure whereas others just crumble. One of the major things of being a manager is knowing when being angry will work and for what players. If you are a one trick pony though, it is going to restrict your success.

Going back to why so many foreigners dislike him/ why so many Irish people like him. He played for Ireland. If someone of such a high profile as a player played against us, using the tactics Roy Keane did, it wouldn't be long before people were calling for his head.

We all remember what Henry did and many people hate him for that one occasion, that one disgraceful act on what was otherwise a blemish free career. But what if Henry did that week in, week out and used it to win games? What if he boasted about it in his autobiography, that given the same choice he would do it again and has no regrets about it and is in fact was almost proud that he did it? That is how some foreigners feel about Keane.

I am not trying to stir crap here. As far as I know Keane didn't even get this job. I am just trying to explain how other people see him and why he is so much disliked. He probably does deserve another chance at managing a team but I don't think people can be surprised that this discusion will happen every time he is linked with a new position and the hatred seen on the Leicester forum will happen each time.

Kingdom Bhoy

Paparazzo wrote: »

Didn't he sign Paul McShane at Sunderland?
And I remember an Ipswich fan on here saying he sold every half decent youth team player for a pittance and bought in a load of "experienced" dross.
His championship win with sunderland was a long time ago, and in fairness, I don't think any fan would be delighted with his appointment as manager to their club. Leicester mightn't be man-u, but that doesn't mean they should be happy with keane purely because he's a big name.


I laughed at that one

When Keano got took SAFC from the depths of the championship to winning the league it was one of the most exciting experiences I have had the pleasure of witnessing. Always be grateful to Roy for that he laid the foundations for our continued PL status.