Keane Walks Out On Sunderland

[seanfhear]

The Irish fans?

good one

[holidaysong]

Been watching Sky Sports News for the last hour. Loads of emails coming in from angry Ireland and Sunderland 'fans' - one guy said this was the second time Keane had stabbed Irish fans in the back..

Funny stuff.

[Drumcondra 69er]

In response to the original question posed, he hasn't been playing many of the Irish lads regulalrly so it won't do them much harm. All depends who the new boss will be....

[bennocelt]

I'm gutted - Cant believe he walked away from this - what a ****

As some one else said - 70 million
Look at Hull, look at Boro, look at Stoke, look at the job Kinnear is doing - so yeah he blew 70 million on rubbish players

(one up to the anti- roy brigade)
- maybe i was wrong about him after all

[gustavo]

This guy spends 80 million plus, mostly on sub standard players, eg Chimbonda, Yorke,Harte, Chopra, Tainio, Malbranque, Cisse, Diouf , McShane, Stokes, O Donovan etc. I have more than likely forgotten the rest, there has been so much money wasted. Then you lot say give him a chance! How many of you will be following Sunderland after he either jumps ship(again) or he is pushed?
Get off the stage!

I'd hardly call Cisse and Malbranque substandard

[OneRedArmy]

The burning question is where will all the noveau SundIreland fans go now?

[smasher]

he was in trouble last season yet saw it through and they stayed up so your comment is nonsense. he took them over when thay were near the bottom of the championship and steered them to a very impressive league win and promotion. how many other sunderland managers have managed promotion and kept them up the following season?

How many Sunderland managers have got the cash he got?
He walked in Saipan and he's walked away again. Do you not detect a vein of consistency here?

[Longfordian]

40 quid into the kitty for me, presuming he doesn't do a U-turn. All very necessary at this expensive time of year.

[Claret Murph]

Very simple he wasn't up to the job , he spent £70 million or what since he was there .

LOSER .

[Buzzer]

He indulged in a bit too much shopping therapy at Woolworths, afterwards complaining that the goods were faulty, also complained that there was no remote control in the package.

Meanwhile other managers who shopped at similar stores were able to repair any faults and embarrassed him. But Roy still persisted in complaining about the faulty goods.

He did provide a retirement home of sorts for our veteran players but then he would chuck them out in the middle of winter.

lost the plot...big time...putting players on t/lists 'cause they're late instead of calling them aside...buying chimbonda!!!! my god the man could 'cause friction in a silent order,not to mind a soccer club...5.5mil for chopra..loaned back to cardiff a year later...8.5 for "better then by brother" ferdinand....west ham were laughing all the way to bank..and a host of cork players who went out on loan as soon as they came in....christ he took cork out of a fair hole(where's the roy wonder from again??).
cancel the direct flights from cork...no more s/land jerseys at the cork matches.
think you will get those jerseys for about a fiver from tomorrow on.
wait you see the cork lads up in arms now about his departure....
like the hurlers"we may not always be right,but we are never wrong!!!!!"mindset

[lionelhutz]

Incorect, Keane had a bigger budget then anyone bar Birmingham that season (who sold Heskey, Pennant and then Upson to generate it) and had a higher net spend then anyone in that league. He was also able to offer lower level Premier league wages to attract the likes of Connolly, Miller, Kavanagh etc back down to the Championship.

The excuses being trotted out by those still blinkered for his failure are embarrassing at this stage. Is Sunderland any less attractive as a destination for a player then Wigan for example? Or Hull for that matter?

Exactly. Would Cisse, Chimbonda, Malbranque, Ferdinand or Richardson even consider signing for the likes of Wigan, West Brom, Hull, Bolton, Stoke or Fulham? I don't think so. And 5 of those clubs are ahead of Sunderland in the table - some considerably ahead.

As well as that, I don't rate the 5 players above or tbh any of the players he signed this season. His transfer dealings have been awful and he hasn't been able to get any consistency of performance out of his players. Damning indictment for any manager.

[pete]

Far from convinced that Keane will make a good manager. He seems to have a confrontational management style which rarely works.

Aside from getting Sunderland promoted he has not done anything else. He has not improved any players & his team do not play good football. From what I have seen seems to be a lot of long balls.

[OwlsFan]

The burning question is where will all the noveau SundIreland fans go now?

Go back to supporting Man U ?

[Billy-Green]

Got lucky with Andy Reid hitting form after he bought him last season, would've gone down otherwise.

Ye really lucky, imagine a manager buying a quality player to help them stay up and then the player actually playing to his abilty that the manager knew he had and keeping the team up total luck

[Razors left peg]

there a very few managers that are a total success in their first job ,he has made alot of mistakes at Sunderland but he has also shown in getting them promoted and keeping them up last year that he still has a big future in management. He will learn from this and be better for it in the future

[Drumcondra 69er]

Whatever you say about him the feat he achieved of a giant u-turn in his first season was nothing short of incredible. He did this without any top class players or expensive signings, just making the most of what he had and brought the best out of the likes of Connolly, Whitehead and Murphy. Then made a shrewd signing in Carlos Edwards and totally transformed previous waster like Nosworthy. He only lost once in 23 games in the second half of that season and it was nothing but sensational management that got them promoted.

The problems began after that when Keane was given money to spend. I think his single biggest problem was that he didn't show enough faith in the players he had, replacing most of them as soon as possible. What was initially a positive feeling soon turned negative, and even worse the season after with the likes of Diouf, Chimbonda and Cisse being dragged in. They could have been the makings of a great side otherwise.

As posted above.

Incorect, Keane had a bigger budget then anyone bar Birmingham that season (who sold Heskey, Pennant and then Upson to generate it) and had a higher net spend then anyone in that league. He was also able to offer lower level Premier league wages to attract the likes of Connolly, Miller, Kavanagh etc back down to the Championship.

[Ash]

Hard to see what job he'd go to next.

Cork hurling manager ... sound like they'd be a good match for each other

[Drumcondra 69er]

Ye really lucky, imagine a manager buying a quality player to help them stay up and then the player actually playing to his abilty that the manager knew he had and keeping the team up total luck

You think they'd have stayed up if Reid had been in his current form last season? After the amount of sh1t players he'd bought he was bound to get lucky once.....

[Razors left peg]

nice to see it gives all the Roy Keane haters something to be happy about for a while anyway!!
Maybe Sunderland should give the job to a good manager like Mick McCarthy..... oh wait, how did he do with them again

[SunderlandBohs]

he was in trouble last season yet saw it through and they stayed up so your comment is nonsense. he took them over when thay were near the bottom of the championship and steered them to a very impressive league win and promotion. how many other sunderland managers have managed promotion and kept them up the following season?

Peter Reid!