Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

As I see it Lambert desperately needs help.
Would love us to bring in a well-respected coach...
...hate to say it but this is clutching at a sort of straw to me.
Big name, part-time, and if it all goes tits-up, we're no worse off!?

Except we will be.

[silhillvilla]

In a sense , I'll be disappointed if this doesn't happen now .

[SoccerHQ]

Some earlier poster mentioned that his contacts might help us in the transfer market. 

For the love of McGrath, I hope he would have absolutely no input into that side of things at all. 

He spunked a phenomenal amount of money at Slumberland on some absolute tat. 

It's quite amusing to me given how he's supposed to fall out with players he went back to Man. United and signed a whole raft of them like Richardson and Bardsley.

Honestly he made MON look like some continental mastermind as all his signings at Sunderland and Ipswich seemed to be Man. United rejects or old players from the Ireland team like Andy Reid and Ian Harte. Darryl Murphy was another incredible mediocre player who seemed to follow him around.

Honestly Lambert looks like a Wenger if you compare his deals to Roy Keane.

[SoccerHQ]

I'd also disagree that it was a "much weaker league than we have now." I think the likes of Ronaldo, Bergkamp, Zola and co would have something to say about it.

Yeah I think the Prem has got worse in the last 10 years. We're not blessed with quite as many standout, world class players as years gone by. Even then they tend to find the grass is a bit greener and fudge off to Spain.
The lower end sides are a lot worse than they used to be too.

I think there are more skilful attacking midfilders/strikers than before like Silva, Aguero, Hazard etc but yeah pretty weak in terms of world class central midfielers and certainly defenders compared to 10 years back.

[SoccerHQ]

What I want from a new assistant manager is someone who can organise us well as even though our defence held up for 2/3 of the season reasonably well we still conceded 60 premier league goals.

I also want someone who you'd be reasonably confident could step into the number 1 role for a period of time on a frugal budget as it currently stands as to me there is little chance of Lambert surviving this season, takeover or no takeover.

I don't see indications Keane is that man, a perfect fit to me would be someone like Steve Clarke but appears he could get the Celtic job.

[Sexual Ealing]

This is a genuine question, because I honestly don't remember the same level of scrutiny being applied say, 15 years ago, but when did we all start giving a shit about who the assistant manager was? Apologies if everyone always did, obviously.

[Louzie0]

This is a genuine question, because I honestly don't remember the same level of scrutiny being applied say, 15 years ago, but when did we all start giving a shit about who the assistant manager was? Apologies if everyone always did, obviously.

When it was Roy Keane.

[KevinGage]

This is a genuine question, because I honestly don't remember the same level of scrutiny being applied say, 15 years ago, but when did we all start giving a shit about who the assistant manager was? Apologies if everyone always did, obviously.

When it's a fruitloop that will draw much unwanted attention to us?

[DeKuip]

This is a genuine question, because I honestly don't remember the same level of scrutiny being applied say, 15 years ago, but when did we all start giving a shit about who the assistant manager was? Apologies if everyone always did, obviously.

Who'd give a shit about Roy Aitken, Gary McAllister, Peter Grant or Ian Culverhouse? I think the last decent assistant manager we had was John Gregory - who was better as a No.2 under Little than when he came back as manager.

[dave.woodhall]

This is a genuine question, because I honestly don't remember the same level of scrutiny being applied say, 15 years ago, but when did we all start giving a shit about who the assistant manager was? Apologies if everyone always did, obviously.

Who'd give a shit about Roy Aitken, Gary McAllister, Peter Grant or Ian Culverhouse? I think the last decent assistant manager we had was John Gregory - who was better as a No.2 under Little than when he came back as manager.

He was number three. Allan Evans was two.

[PeterWithesShin]

I thought the number two was always Steve Harrison? Well when there was a wardrobe around.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Maybe its the Stockholm syndrome kicking in but I am getting excited by this.

[Steve67]

Fuck it. Feel the fear and do it anyway. It's a yes from me.

[Dante Lavelli]

This is a genuine question, because I honestly don't remember the same level of scrutiny being applied say, 15 years ago, but when did we all start giving a shit about who the assistant manager was? Apologies if everyone always did, obviously.

Have the roles changed slightly over time (genuine question)?  The manager becoming more of a 'suit' whereas the assistant takes over a lot more of the day to day duties?  Therefore the assistant manager's influence may be greater hence the level of scrutiny.  Maybe we've adopted the more european system of General Manager and Head Coach by stelph i.e. adopted it in principle but without changing the job titles?

[Chris Smith]

This is a genuine question, because I honestly don't remember the same level of scrutiny being applied say, 15 years ago, but when did we all start giving a shit about who the assistant manager was? Apologies if everyone always did, obviously.

Around the time sites like this developed which meant people having to find things to moan about for 24 hours a day. Up to that point we only had limited moaning opportunities, perhaps during a break at work or an hour or two in the pub so had to make the most of them ;-)