Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[silhillvilla]

Can he play Left Back ?

[Steve kirk]

Roy Keane as assistant manager?, very strange times down at Villa Park so this could well be true.

[silhillvilla]

When lambert gets the chop around sept, Keano will step up to manager and Shay Given will become CEO and be handed the keys to Aston Hall.

[Gregorys Boy]

Its a entertaining rumor I will give the Mirror that, but I still call bullshit on it

I think he just wants to focus on helping Ireland out, that is a great chance for him.

Also I can see the point in signing players with everything else at the club still to be settled, but if you don't know the future of the manager then why bring in another assistant right now?

[Clampy]

Bring him in,he's a born winner

Winner? You should ask Sunderland and Ipswich fans. Great player useless manager no coach.

He didn't do a fat lot at Ipswich. He did get Sunderland promoted though didn't he?

[Toronto Villa]

it's not just in The Mirror anymore. A lot of other papers are now mentioning it, so I reckon there could be some legs in this. He removes himself from any contention at Celtic, gets an endorsement about Villa from MON (which I think he'd do despite being a spiteful bastard) and becomes assistant to Lambert. Very odd.

[brontebilly]

The last thing the club needs is another one of the management team not showing up at the training ground.

one of the best players and biggest hypocrites produced by the game in the past 25 years.

sad but Keane is nothing more that a rent a quote mercenary at this stage and a particularly ill-informed one at that.

[The Man With A Stick]

Can we not ban anyone with Old Firm connections from the club for the next, say, 10,000 years?  Bar one or two, they've all been a shower of shit.

[dave.woodhall]

There's definitely some truth in it. It doesn't exactly bode well for peace and harmony, nor for a more enlightened style of play. 

[silhillvilla]

I'd have him in just for the post match interviews .

[Toronto Villa]

We could do with a bit of Roy Keane in the Villa midfield.

I am willing to give him a chance but it seems quite the risk.

[Villa in Denmark]

There's definitely some truth in it. It doesn't exactly bode well for peace and harmony, nor for a more enlightened style of play.

Can I be the first to say "Oh fucking Hell."

[PaulWinch again]

I really don't think his time in coaching has proved to be any great success, but to be honest at the moment who knows what's going on.

[Monty]

This makes sense. You get rid of Culverhouse and Karsa, with all the rumours circulating about why, and for contrast you bring in Roy Keane and, presumably, either Mike Tyson or Russell Crowe.

I have to say, I'd love to see how the Villa hierarchy would do if you sat them down with an A-level logic paper and gave them an hour. This would not be the first decision they've made which betrays a lack of particularly ordered thinking.

[PaulWinch again]

Yes there doesn't seem a lot of sense to what's going on at the moment, I really hope a takeover happens soon.