Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[Clampy]

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.

In fairness Lerner can't exactly choose Lambert's backroom staff for him so this would be Lambert's choice if it is true.

[brontebilly]

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.

Keane's connections with Glasgow are tenuous at best. He got a huge contract there and quit after less than six months.

[kiddylion]

Bring him in,he's a born winner

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

Indeed.

He got Sunderland promoted as champions & hadn't won a game when he was appointed.
Admit he didn't do anything at Ipswich though.

[Toronto Villa]

We need this takeover to happen quickly so that we can move past a lot of this.

Optimistically, this is just a short term step and he doesn't sign any long term deal. He is staying as Republic assistant so may be this is just to help out at the club until there is some degree of certainty. It could be just Lambert's old boss lending a hand and helping out by sending Keane.

*desperately clutches at straws*

[Monty]

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.

In fairness Lerner can't exactly choose Lambert's backroom staff for him so this would be Lambert's choice if it is true.

Quite, though Lerner's shown himself perfectly capable in the past of reason-defying balls-ups. It's quite a pair we've got in charge.

[PaulWinch again]

We need this takeover to happen quickly so that we can move past a lot of this.

Optimistically, this is just a short term step and he doesn't sign any long term deal. He is staying as Republic assistant so may be this is just to help out at the club until there is some degree of certainty. It could be just Lambert's old boss lending a hand and helping out by sending Keane.

*desperately clutches at straws*

I agree, we can't keep drifting along like this.

[Jimbo]

Didn't see that coming. But they could dig up the mouldering bones of the late Larry Grayson and install them as part-time assistant manager and it still wouldn't surprise me. These are surely some crazy days at the club.

[cdbearsfan]

I wouldn't necessarily mind Keane as assistant manager the more I think of it. He's had a mixed record as manager, gaining promotion with Sunderland before failing eventually (like just about every Sunderland manager I can remember) and then did just about bugger all with Ipswich. However, his failings seems to have been in the transfer market. That remit doesn't lie with the assistant manager anyway. For a while we've said we lack a bit of fight and desire and I think he could perhaps inspire a dressing room in a way that Lambert seems unable to on a regular basis. So I would never really want Keane as manager but he might do a job as assistant.

My main gripe with appointing Keane is that it would almost certainly seem to indicate that we're sticking with Lambert for the foreseeable future.

[Nastylee]

I think this would be a great move. Someone who is massively respected in the game, a player that would get into most all time Prem elevens and a proven winner. It's about time someone shook our complacent sqaud up. Players like Gabby need someone like Keane giving them kick up the arse. For those that say having the job in addition to the Ireland job wouldn't work then realise that during international week there are very few players around the place anyway. I certainly wouldn't be against it and being a psycho on the pitch doesn't make you one off it.

[Monty]

I see absolutely nothing in Keane's background and record which would indicate a shake-up in the style of play. In fact, if anything, he might help make it even worse.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Can Keane please take the snide interviews from Pat Murphy and radio WM? That I would pay to see.

[SamTheMouse]

The guy is a nasty piece of work and has never shown any aptitude for either coaching or management.

Seriously, what the hell are they thinking?

[Chris Smith]

Given the uncertainty around the club it might not be that easy to attract a coach other than one with another job to fall back on. So if it happens I'd see it as another pragmatic choice, in the same vein as keeping Lambert on while Lerner looks for a buyer.

[silhillvilla]

I think he's exactly what is needed down there. If nothing else he will speak openly about what the hell is going on. Bring it on .

[Gregorys Boy]

Assistant manager is a good role for him to develop in while he learns to be a better manager, just not our assistant manager.