Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[pauliewalnuts]

"Mick, you're a liar... you're a fucking wanker. I didn't rate you as a player, I don't rate you as a manager, and I don't rate you as a person. You're a fucking wanker and you can stick your World Cup up your arse. The only reason I have any dealings with you is that somehow you are the manager of my country! You can stick it up your bollocks.

That's straight talking.

I appreciate he can do that bit, it's what he can do in terms of making the players actually play something that looks like football that bothers me most. Fingers crossed.

[Jon Crofts]

Shudder.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-13-memorable-roy-7352786

I don't see a lot wrong there apart from the Halaand tackle, it's about time some of our lot grew some bollocks.

[supertom]

"Mick, you're a liar... you're a fucking wanker. I didn't rate you as a player, I don't rate you as a manager, and I don't rate you as a person. You're a fucking wanker and you can stick your World Cup up your arse. The only reason I have any dealings with you is that somehow you are the manager of my country! You can stick it up your bollocks.

That's straight talking.

I appreciate he can do that bit, it's what he can do in terms of making the players actually play something that looks like football that bothers me most. Fingers crossed.

I'm just hoping Lambert will be going some way to addressing that part himself with the right sort of players. We never really had any guile or nous in midfield to play a more modern type of game. Signing a player like Joe Cole suggests he's going to finally adopt a formation to incorporate the number 10. I'd hope we'll sign another option too, or make use of N'Zgobia too.

I'm not expecting tactical brilliance but I would hope we'll at least address the issue of having enough personnel who are able to trap, pass and run with the ball so that we'll naturally keep the ball more efficiently.
If Roy Keane can provide a bit of motivational thrust, even by dishing out a few well taken rollickings, then things will be (a bit) better.

[Jimbo]

I won't believe it until I see a picture of Keane outside Bodymoor Heath, ripping a Villa shirt in half.

[Tuscans]

Good luck Roy boy. I for one have always actually liked you, as a player and a pundit, a man's man who tells it like it is something that seems to be fading away and we all now have to pussy foot around football.

I think the real players at the club will and can only become better, if not technically then mentally. Look forward to rants and tantrums on the touchline next season.

[PaulWinch again]

Welcome Roy, but that's the end of the side show now we need to sign some players of the required quality.

[Deano's Mullet]

I cant help but think that he will be our manager by the end of the season, to me its inevitable. Can you see him agreeing with some of Lambert's "tactics" and selections from last season? I think it puts extra pressure on Lambert - and whos to say the new owners - whomever they turn out to be - will want the staff they inherit? We are a complete mess and as of the moment I think we are nailed on for relegation this season, especially with only ten million to spend if the reports are true.

[paulcomben]

Does Roy still have any friends at Old Trafford? Some of their unwanted players on loan might plug some gaps.

[villa `cross the mersey]

I can only ask - Why?

[paul_e]

Welcome Roy, but that's the end of the side show now we need to sign some players of the required quality.

I think another backroom appointment is more important than any players we might bring in.  We need someone on the training ground who will get us working as a team in attack and defence.  Defensively we get far too many players isolated and the other way too many players go missing or run away from the ball.  I avoid most of the slagging off of Weimann because he's one of the few players who makes himself available even when things aren't going well, he has a lot of problems but if the rest of the team had his will to be involved we'd be better straight away.

If Keane and someone else can bring that to us then we'll be a much better side next year even with the squad we have now.

[N'Rexy]

There is often a fine line between genius and stupidity. We'll see which side of the line this falls in the coming months. It might be a masterstroke.

[nodge]

"You can stick it up your bollocks" still makes me loff.

[brontebilly]

Welcome Roy, but that's the end of the side show now we need to sign some players of the required quality.

The sideshow is only starting I'm afraid. Roy is a rent a quote clown of epic proportions.

[ChicagoLion]

There is no way that Keane is going to play second fiddle to Lambert, it just aint happening.
So either there is more to this, or the relationship with Lambert will be short lived.

[AGRIPPA]

Can't see it working, the only thing he is interested in is himself......a bloke who walks out on his country, a bloke who deliberately injures another player, a bloke who admits the last comment, a bloke who talks shite most of the time.....not for me thanks!!