Myself and Roy have had many differences in the past and I will never fully warm to him if he becomes manager of Celtic.
Plus his cv isnât good enough to become Celtic manager imo
What does he have down for his hobbies and interests?
Football punditry and dressing up as a leprechaun
[QUOTE=âthedancingbaby, post: 951700, member: 48â]Myself and Roy have had many differences in the past and I will never fully warm to him if he becomes manager of Celtic.
Plus his cv isnât good enough to become Celtic manager imo[/QUOTE]
Surely his cv is better than many ex celtic managers(prior to their appointment).
Funny listening to off the ballâs take on it. Keaneâs management career has dipped so much that this is about as high as he can hope for apparently.
Interesting fact. Forest have been through 7 different managerial appointments in the last 3 years(8 if you count Billy Davis twice). At no point was Keane seriously considered to take over.
A real pity in my own opinion, I think heâll do well at Celtic although any success would be difficult to quantify because of the crap standard in Scotland. It will take some big nights in Europe for proper clubs to take an interest in him again Iâd say
Well that rules out Owen Coyle anyway.
Iâm rowing back a little from my full support on this. Iâll make my mind up once any appointment is confirmed.
There are so many pros and cons itâs almost impossible to make a definitive call, but letâs just go through them for a laugh:
Positives:
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[]OâNeill rates him and he doesnât just hand out coaching jobs easily
[]His first season at Sunderland was first class
[]His subsequent season wasnât an unmitigated disaster either - keeping them up was a decent achievement
[]That was a pretty poor Ipswich team he managed
[]He is probably better suited from a profile point of view to attracting players to Celtic than any other candidate, other than Larsson
[]He has at least as much managerial experience as any of the other realistic candidates (Mackay, McNamara, Clarke) other than Moyes
[]RTĂ will likely show more Celtic CL games with Keane in charge
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Negatives:
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[]He still seems like a headcase
[]His transfer signings have been incredibly unimaginative and generally very poor
[]He has only had one season with a decent win rate
[]The last thing the manager of Celtic needs to be is a chippy guy with an attitude
[]He doesnât seem to be able to stay in the same job for very long
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If it wasnât for his miserable transfer record Iâd be happy enough to see him joining. I think all the mentioned candidates are risky, other than Moyes who is the least likely anyway. None of them are established or proven managers with long track records. The job Keane did at Sunderland is at least as good as anything Mackay or Clarke did. And he isnât Owen Coyle. Thatâs an enormous positive. Coyle has saved Celtic from slipping Mark McGheeâs name to the press, like they used in past years so weâd accept whoever got the job instead.
But those signings at Sunderland were so bad and so unimaginative: Yorke, Richardson, Bardsley (FFS), Miller, McShane, Varga, Wallace. And when he went outside the players he knew personally: Prica (the Sunderland Pukki) and then he bought Darly Murphy and David Healy to Ipswich and that Leadbitter lad.
Me too.
To my very core!!!
Unimaginative newspaper headlines to follow:
Roy The Bhoy
Bhoy Roy
Keane Bhoy
The Bhoy is Keane
Iâm not entirely sure he is stable enough for the bile that will spill his way from the rangers supporters and their allies in the media. This will be mitigated by the fact that they wonât be playing each other regularly yet, but if and when sevco get back into the top flight Roy is likely to boil over entirely. I just canât see him dealing with some of the shite neil Lennon had to deal with without incident.
Celtic Underground saying that, following some rebuffs, itâs down to Keane, Petrescu and one other unknown candidate. 
I never liked Dan Petrescu. He had an unusual head which offended me.
Dan Pet Rescue would be an infinately better choice than than utter cunt Keane
I am reliably informed that John Delaney says yes to Roy Keane and Celtic:clap:
http://www.irishexaminer.com/media/images/j/johnDelaneyThumbsUp_large.jpg
It would be a bad appointment for Celtic, make no mistake. Heâs too much of a hot head and wouldnât have the patience or verve to deal with top players. Imagine him flying to Paris or Milan to eat dinner in a fancy restaurant and try to woo a top player to Celtic, he wouldnât have the skills necessary. And as Rocko pointed out, he has a bad record when it comes to signing players with ability. He is best suited to a coaching/assistant job where he doesnât have to be the main man dealing with big egos/press/agents etc. He was a top, top player. A top manager he is not.
Pros. He wonât get ÂŁ9m to waste on a injury prone Goalkeeper like Craig Gordon.
Cons. Craig Gordon is back in training after being released from Sunderland as a free agent.
I know Keane was scheduled to attend the Ireland press conference this evening. Speculation would have intensified with him not showing up even if OâNeill hadnât attended instead and confirmed Celtic made an approach for him. But I donât think OâNeill would have been so open in talking about it unless it was progressing to Keane taking the job.