Roy Keane says he is eyeing up a return to administration, and there is one job he’d significantly like to take.
The Manchester United legend, who beforehand managed Sunderland and Ipswich, has spent a piece of the final decade as an assistant coach to Martin O’Neil, although hasn’t held a senior managerial place since 2011.
Several groups have approached him in the previous few years making an attempt to coax him again to the dugout, however none have succeeded. However, talking on the newest episode of Stick To Football podcast, delivered to you by Sky Bet, Keane revealed he’d be concerned about taking the Ireland supervisor’s job, ought to it ever be supplied to him.
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“I enjoyed international football when I was a coach there, I like the dynamics of it where you’re not in everyday and it’s not about brining players in and dealing with the board every week,” Keane admitted. “That does appeal to me, I did enjoy the dynamics when I was coaching with the Irish team – that could be an option.”
The ex-Ireland skipper left the door open for different choices too, however insisted it’d should be “the right challenge” to ensure that him to take it. He added: “Not that you’re going to get the Real Madrid job, but it’s got to be the right challenge, the right club, and the right contract.
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“I’ve had opportunities, but sometimes you get offered a contract and you have to look at it with self-worth, is it the right deal for you? I’d like to go back in [to management], but I’m not desperate to sign any contract for anybody.”
Keane, 52, acquired his first style of administration just some months after hanging up his boots in 2006. He acquired Sunderland promoted to the Premier League in his first season on the helm, and guided them to a Fifteenth-place end the next season. However, he give up in December 2008 following a poor begin to his third marketing campaign.
Four months later was appointed Ipswich boss, however in contrast to with Sunderland he was unable to carry them out of the Championship and was sacked mid-way by means of his second full season in cost. In the years since he is cut up his time between an assistant function underneath O’Neil with Ireland, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest, and varied punditry roles with the likes of Sky Sports and ITV.