It's a bit sad really. Keane was a fantastic player but the more he opens his mouth the more you can see the bitterness and failure to accept the inevitable that Fergie talked about in his book.
""I could have played for Manchester United easily for another couple of years." - you really really couldn't Roy, and he's talking about other people living in cloud cookcoo land? He retired 6 months later because by that time he was too past it to even play in the Scottish league.
If it was his job to "manage the dressing room" he should have done that. Not publicly criticised his teammates. That has nothing to do with managing anything and only really served to massage Keanes own ego. If it was his job, then the most damming thing for Roy is the fact that players felt better able to emerge and what the team went on to achieve when he was gone.
I loved Keane, and god knows we could do with a prime Roy Keane in the team now but what he's become isn't much more than a media whore these days.
If you'd have told me 10 years ago that Roy Keane would be sat beside Dixon, Southgate and Adrian Chiles as an ITV pundit. And making dramatic program's about his battles with Vieira for ITV4 I'd have laughed in your face. Particularly when half the time he's sat there looking like a charicature of Roy Keane and like he'd rather be sat anywhere else.
If it was up to me Roy Keane would have never gotten old and would have captained Utd forever but football is a brutal business (getting paid tens of thousands to play football really isn't brutal obviously) and i would have thought Keane more than most would understand that he was 34, injured and quite obviously having a negative influence - it was time for him to go.
Keane deserves his place among Utds history but history is what it is now. Bar increasing the viewing figures for his ITV4 program, I'm not sure why he feels the need to keep telling people the same thing over, and over, and over or what he wants to achieve. It's not as if he's going to damage Fergies legacy.
Players stay at clubs while they contribute, when they stop contributing they go, it's been that way forever and it's got nothing to do with Utd, Fergie or loyalty.
I'm really not sure what he expected, to be able to do/say what he wanted for as long as he wanted? Never gonna happen Roy.
Justified or not he was obviously shocked and hurt when he was shipped out, and I would have no problem with him saying so but still reacting 10 years later and still spitting out these bitter outbursts, blaming everyone but himself just make him look like an angry little cartoon character.
I'd say the vast majority of fans read this sort if stuff and just think 'bitter, loony Keane' rather than be shocked that Fergie was ruthless and concerned with power and control.
It's all a bit sad and unnecessary. I'd say his new bosses at ITV are delighted though.
