Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[RussellC]

So Arison would leave the current Manager in place but insist on a specific Assistant Manager being brought in to work alongside him?

I'm sorry, but that sounds like utter nonsense to me.

[PaulWinch again]

Agreed, that would make no sense at all.

[RussellC]

Looks like this one is a goer...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/10929725/Aston-Villa-to-appoint-Roy-Keane-as-Paul-Lamberts-assistant-by-early-July.html

[Holte Sweet]

I look upon Villa as more of a soap opera than a football club theses days.

Can't wait for reports of the first training ground bust up, flounce out in a hissy fit ets, etc

[Ron Manager]

Hmmm. That,s something for the players to look forward to. A nice gentle introduction to season 2014/2015.

[Monty]

Frankly I think this is a disgrace. The guy is utterly, utterly horrible. Never mind the arguments about anything else, it's shameful that such a person would be on the payroll at Villa Park.

[pauliewalnuts]

"Culverhouse and Karsa are gone! HURRAH! The strict teachers nobody liked have left the school!"

Then, first day back after the summer holidays, they meet the replacement.

[Jon Crofts]

"Culverhouse and Karsa are gone! HURRAH! The strict teachers nobody liked have left the school!"

Then, first day back after the summer holidays, they meet the replacement.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk run away

[MoetVillan]

thats the look my three year old daughter gave me this morning when I asked if she was ok eating rice krispies as the coco pops had run out

[supertom]

Do our squad just don't like being worked hard? Are they just princesses? Our side didn't appreciate Houllier and McCallisters methods.  Then something, and we'll probably never know anything specific until one our players releases a piss poorly written bio, wasn't right with Karsey and Shithouse.

Do our players just need to man the hell up? I think there's a lot of our squad that need a fecking good kick up the arse to be honest. If Keane provides that in a positive way then he'll work. If our players run off home crying to their mummy's then it's going to be a disaster.

I think it'll be the latter, and I give it a month before Roy Keane is having a fist fight with Concrete Ron.

[The Laughing Policeman]

Do our squad just don't like being worked hard? Are they just princesses? Our side didn't appreciate Houllier and McCallisters methods.  Then something, and we'll probably never know anything specific until one our players releases a piss poorly written bio, wasn't right with Karsey and Shithouse.

Do our players just need to man the hell up? I think there's a lot of our squad that need a fecking good kick up the arse to be honest. If Keane provides that in a positive way then he'll work. If our players run off home crying to their mummy's then it's going to be a disaster.

I think it'll be the latter, and I give it a month before Roy Keane is having a fist fight with Concrete Ron.

You could put that on at the NIA and sell the place out.

[dicedlam]

That stare is enough to scare the shit out of the devil himself.

I don't think there will be many slagging off the team from behind the dugout this season.

[silhillvilla]

That stare is enough to scare the shit out of the devil himself.

I don't think there will be many slagging off the team from behind the dugout this season.

Nope. The old trinity lower Daily Mail reading brigade will be sat silent  nodding all season.

[Chris Jameson]

Frankly I think this is a disgrace. The guy is utterly, utterly horrible. Never mind the arguments about anything else, it's shameful that such a person would be on the payroll at Villa Park.

I'm not sure if that's sarcasm.

[Monty]

Frankly I think this is a disgrace. The guy is utterly, utterly horrible. Never mind the arguments about anything else, it's shameful that such a person would be on the payroll at Villa Park.

I'm not sure if that's sarcasm.

I don't get why everyone's so into Keane coming along. Okay, I can understand the praise of him as a player, but so far as a coach he's shown himself to be fluky, inept, flaky and self-aggrandising, and I have not forgotten that he not only ended Alf Inge Haaland's career, with a premeditated assault, but far from showing remorse actually boasted about it afterwards. With all the opprobrium Suarez is getting for a nip on the shoulder, I'd have thought Keane being banned from all football ever would have been a proportionate punishment.

Are there really no assistant managers at least as good as Keane (described by a friend and supporter as 'not really a tactical guy or one to get the team playing in any particular way' - with friends like that...) who also aren't essentially evil, thuggish arseholes? Is there really nobody?