Roy Keane has left

[passport1]

There is an expression in Ireland reserved for people like Roy that he will be familiar with. Gobshite.

[Mister E]

And there is more.

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Roy Keane slams 'tired club' Aston Villa and their woeful strikers who 'couldn't finish their dinner' in new chapter of memoirs


    Roy Keane calls Aston Villa 'a tired club' in new chapter of his book
    Former assistant to Paul Lambert blasts complacency of Villa players
    Keane left the club in November to concentrate on Ireland role
    Takes swipe at Lambert's replacement, Tim Sherwood, in new chapter
    Claims Sherwood was positioning himself for job before Lambert sacking
    Criticises striker Christian Benteke for not scoring enough in training


By Mike Keegan For Mailonline
Published: 16:38, 6 May 2015 | Updated: 16:47, 6 May 2015


Roy Keane has branded Aston Villa 'a tired club'  ...
'My job with Ireland wasn’t really affecting my role at Villa – that wasn’t the problem,' he says. ‘But my role at Villa was certainly affecting my work with Ireland. I felt it wasn’t fair.

all this is so-oo-oo boring.
What the f**k does he think he was doing at the club if not to add some value, instead of condoning an apparently-corrosive training attitude?!

[Ian.]

Mick McCarthy had Keane worked out and stood up to the prat. The blokes a nutter and pretty useless now he's not playing football. Savage talks more sense than him and is far better at trying to wind up people.

[Toronto Villa]

I don't think everything he says about the club while he was with us is wrong. We all felt the club had lost its way on a number of different levels. What absolutely discredits this is how he views Lambert in all of this. Fair enough, have an opinion but have the intelligence to know where a lot of the problem stems from. He's an arrogant prick of self publicist which we all knew anyway. I don't have an issue with criticism because for us much has been deserved. But if it comes them make sure it isn't selective which he is clearly being.

[aj2k77]

What exactly is this journey or plan bollocks they talk about? Is it like some sort of biblical journey, where the fans are tested by hordes of locusts and a famine of goals and then at the end the remaining few are rewarded with the holy grail of a trophy?

I love it when a plan comes together.

Forgive me for not having faith brother, I was blind but now I see.

[fbriai]

Do you think that he realises that going and working somewhere for six months and then leaving and publicly slagging off the people you've been working with and for, might just make other potential employers in the future wonder whether taking him on would be sensible or not?

It be interesting to know what the Ireland players think of it all. Will they be more wary of him now? After all, they could easily end up in a chapter of his next update.

[Des Little]

His time here feels like years ago now. Which is a good thing.

[Tony Erdington]

well with the amount of guff Roy has put into print, I would have thought he could have worked out, the idea in producing books , is to sell books. But not even a mention, of "gulls following trawlers", or "Dogs barking at the caravan as it moves down the road to the cess pit in west London"

[Malandro]

poor old Roy, how can one man be so unlucky? Everywhere he goes he meets arseholes.

[LeeB]

poor old Roy, how can one man be so unlucky? Everywhere he goes he meets arseholes.

Especially in the hall of mirrors.

[kippaxvilla2]

I'd like to thank Roy for providing Tim with his easiest pre match team talk of the season.

[SoccerHQ]

I respected Keane a lot as a player but I never felt comfortable with him as assistant and was pretty happy when he left.

That said I do think some of the comments that are getting lost like complacency in the squad hint at one of the reasons we've been struggling the last few years with a lack of direction from the top.

The problem here is Keane can't adapt. He thinks he can get the same reaction from a squad by playing the bad cop when the best managers mix it up and realise some players will need encouragement and support rather than being shouted at all the time. When he manages or assists he can't transform himself into that mindset hence fall outs start developing.

[PeterWithesShin]

Roy Keane always has been, and always will be, a ******.

[Matt C]

Sounds like a man desperately trying to patch a tattered reputation.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Sometimes Roy, it really is better to just be silent.