Roy Keane has left

[LTA]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3069820/Roy-Keane-claims-Tim-Sherwood-laying-groundwork-Aston-Villa-job-long-Paul-Lambert-sacked.html

Hmmmmmmm.............

[fbriai]

Something and nothing, really.

The last line of the article is the most revealing:

An updated version of Keane's autobiography 'The Second Half' is published later this month.

He's just drumming up a bit of publicity.

[PeterWithesShin]

Birmingham Mail

Former Aston Villa assistant Roy Keane has claimed Tim Sherwood was positioning himself to become the claret and blues boss before ex-manager Paul Lambert was sacked.

Sherwood was seen at Villa Park on a number of occasions before he took the role and in his updated autobiography, The Second Half, Keane explains how he felt the ex-Tottenham man was already laying the groundwork.

The Irishman, who was No.2 to Lambert before quitting after just five months said: “I went to watch Villa against Bournemouth in the FA Cup a few weeks before Paul was sacked and Tim Sherwood was sitting behind me.

“I just thought, “All right . . . ’

“I think some men go to matches if they think there’s a job there for him. I believe Tim had been at two or three games.

“It’s not a criticism of Tim. It’s part of the game, it’s the industry we’re in.

“I’d go the other way myself. If I thought the manager was under pressure and that I was somehow being linked to the job, I’d avoid the place.”

Sherwood has dragged Villa out of the bottom three since his arrival and also guided them into the FA Cup Final.

Rejuvenating Christian Benteke was the key as the big Belgian now has 11 goals in his last nine games.

Keane admitted he was not impressed with how the striker went about his preparation in training, though.

“I’d look at Christian and he wasn’t one for scoring many goals in training,” said the Republic of Ireland assistant.

“With all the top strikers I’d worked with, the top ones always loved scoring in training.

“I thought he’d give them a lift when he came back from injury . . . but I wasn’t thinking ‘The Messiah’s back’.

“He isn’t the type of personality that will get people together.”

[PeterWithesShin]

As I said on the Benteke thread. And he's a bellend.

Still, it gets people talking about his new updated book due out in a couple of weeks, so job done eh Roy. Unlike when you were employed at VP you twat.

[Small Rodent]

Birmingham Mail

“I’d look at Christian and he wasn’t one for scoring many goals in training,” said the Republic of Ireland assistant.

“With all the top strikers I’d worked with, the top ones always loved scoring in training.

“I thought he’d give them a lift when he came back from injury . . . but I wasn’t thinking ‘The Messiah’s back’.

“He isn’t the type of personality that will get people together.”

But the minute Man Utd come sniffing you'll be singing his praises.

[Toronto Villa]

not disagreeing with the bellend bit, because to argue that I'd need to resurrect Johnny Cochrane. However, it's not unreasonable those two views from where he was and where everything was really at the time. When you look back at the spell just after Benteke came back there was a lot of criticism of him on here for not putting in the effort/coasting through games etc. I put that partly on him and 90% on the environment at the club. Look how together the team looks now as contrast. And on the second point I think it was poor form to have Sherwood at the ground while Lambert was still manager. Now, in the end it has all worked out so far, but we all thought there was something up when it was more than one game that he sat next Fox, and then low and behold after Lambert was fired nobody else got an interview and Sherwood was hired.

[chrisw1]

Don't care.  If anything shows he wanted the job and he prepared well for it.  May have been better to not give him a seat next to Fox though.

But in reality, I think he went to a lot of PL games when he was inbetween jobs.

[PeterWithesShin]

Benteke played 4 games while Keane was here. So Keane saw him for a couple of months max which would have included his early training back from a serious injury.

And judging by the open training day, it would help if Keane ever looked at the players as they trained instead of looking bored and nattering to Lambert and other coaches. Fucking twat.

[Chris Jameson]

It wasn't Roy Keane who went to watch Sunderland when Poyet was under pressure then?

[fbriai]

Don't care.  If anything shows he wanted the job and he prepared well for it.  May have been better to not give him a seat next to Fox though.

But in reality, I think he went to a lot of PL games when he was inbetween jobs.

I think fair play to Sherwood.

He knew he was going to be in the running for a handful of jobs come the new year, so spent some time studying them a bit in preparation. I think it reflects pretty well on him; shows a bit of fore-thought.

[papa lazarou]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....................

[PeterWithesShin]

Better than the disinterest shown in Villa by Keane while he was pocketing his wages.

[Malandro]

what about changing the thread to 'Roy Keane has left and is still an arse'

[tom jennings III]

Keane is an absolute benny, of that there is little doubt. He p*ssed his chance away at Villa and is very unlikely to get a chance at a big club like us again given his dire managerial record. He is also an egotistical, hypocritical dullard, how dare he talk about Sherwood when he did exactly the same when Poyet was under pressure at Sunderland. Luckily he is also exceedingly dimwitted leading to extreme transparency in everything he says. It is so painfully obvious that he is only doing this as some kind of half-arsed profile-raising either to sell books or get his name out there for some crappy job (probably the former at the moment). Utter buffoon.

[PeterWithesShin]

The updated version of his book is out in a couple of weeks. In some fairness to him, these quotes are actually extracts from the book rather than an interview he gave. He's still a total cockwomble though.