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Latest from BBC, Roy Keane says he'll quite when his contract expires in 18 months time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/4257537.stm
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from manutd.com::Originally Posted by green goblin
Keane Still Plans Summer 2006 Retirement
Roy Keane will bring a close to his Manchester United career when his
current contract expires in 18 months time.
The United skipper has been in tremendous form recently and admits
to feeling "physically fresh", fuelling rumours that he may extend his
stay at Old Trafford.
The 33-year-old Irishman insisted when he signed his current contract
that it would be his last, and says currently nothing has changed.
"When I signed this contract I believed that it would be my last playing
contract, and I still believe that will be the case," the Reds skipper told
us.
”I feel good in myself, I feel OK. We’ve probably got the balance right
this year with the manager, the medical side of things and missing the
odd game here and there.
"We’ve got a big squad so it’s only right everyone gets a game. The
games I have played in I have felt fresh and physically good.
"My hip feels good, and so do my knees. My left knee was sore over the
last week or two. Mentally, I’m always enjoying my football.
"With the few days’ rest I am having here and there, I do feel that bit
fresher going into games."
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So his last act as a player will be to lift the world Cup.
LIft as in raise after we beat Brazil in the final in Berlin
Well he seems to be assuming we will get to the world cup,
the retirement date seems to be just before the start of
the season which seemed a bit unusual to me, but maybe
not on second thoughts.
It would be a great way to sign out by lifting the world cup.
(I normally wake up at that point).
KC - someone from the U21's you fancy?
Suppose he is a better Captain than Gary Breen who furnished us with more below par performance's than the laws of mathematics would allow.
I'm not a big Roy Keane lover although I do admit to thinking he is a good player and feel we should let him see out whatever duration of a Club/International career he has left.
There is always going to be the tarnished record from Saipan but let's forget it until Roy retires then we can all let rip, no need to keep the debate going when it is for the greater good to have him in the team.
I'd rather die laughing than trying!
yes of course he is , whats the point of going if you dont intend to win it
Assuming he doesn't have a falling out at the training camp beforehand.
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thats very positive, sounds like you would almost wish for this to happen
'Assuming he doesn't have a falling out at the training camp beforehand.'
Gobs_-_e, well assuming we treat the World Cup in a professional manner and arrange proper training facilities and arrange to have the squads training gear sent over to germany in time for the World Cup in order to help us win it we should be alright
Thankfully we know Kerr wont make the mistakes a former manager did - a proper pro is Kerr it seems looking from the outside in. Seems to have a good attention to deail.
Oh yeah, all providing we get there of course - still some very tough matches ahead of us yet
^^^
well said cosmo.
roy will be crucial to getting us to the world cup (like last time! selective memories people!!) as said before kerr will do things in a professional manner. at present we are seen as one of the more prominent forces in european football (we have the results to show it) and therefore the squad should be looked after in a professional way like our european counterparts.
the negativity from some people in relation to keano is down-right stupidity. ya lets bash our most influencial player. typical irish attitude, knock your own..
You Cork boys really do have short and selective memories where this guy is concerned.
Keane has been our most influencial player all right, but as much negatively as positively. Players can only be postively influencial when they are out on the field. Don't remember him being too positively influencial in 2002 WC finals. Don't remember him being too positively influencial last Wednesday against Portugal, due to a knee injury! Not surprisingly there didn't seem to be much wrong with his knee today, but pandering to the Mancs has always been far more important to Roy than playing for lreland.
I don't hear many people 'bashing' or 'knocking' the likes of Givens, Cunningham and Duff. Did you ever wonder why?
If being negative in relation to Roy Keane and his commitment to playing for Ireland is stupid, then until I'm proved wrong, I am happy to be stupid.
Honest! I am not a secret Tim nor a closet Sham - I really am a Seagull.
Seems like you have an infantile and irrational dislike of all things Cork, even your location says "Not Cork (thank God").
Grow up kid and stop being a dick.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind
Yes indeed your stupid
you say that roy 'panders' to the mancs ya?? i'd rather to them than some t.o.s.s.e.r from yorkshire. mick let personal vendettas get in the way of preperations for a world cup. not only that but how many people on this board whine and b.i.tch about the FAI!? roy wasnt going to put up with sub-standard facilities and poor treatment to the players. people moan about the amateur attitude of the FAI. roy simply brings it to the attention of his manager and what happpens, micky boy interrogates him in front of the old guard (quinn, staunton and co.)
things have changed with the national side now. down to who initially.. ROY!
given, duff, cunningham. they don't get stick u no y?
cos roy has been at the top4years wit manu- ABUs and the cork culchie brigade love knockin a man for being passionate and sometimes outspoken
roy has his rough edges granted but he wouldnt still be performing at such a high level at his age if he wasn't so passionate
and not all us cork lads have time for roy.. as they say knock your own..
and at his age (with his hips and knees) i'd rather he play games for points than meaningless friendlies. roy has a positive influence on the squad, thats a well documented fact. roy was a key factor in getting us to WC2002 and he will be again in getting us to WC2006
i no this post is gonna be scrutinised to the last but really i don't care, its just my opinion.
my sentiments exactly.
bet he even has a 'cork culchie brigade' membership card!!
clown
I think (some) people should remember that Roy did not quit the world
cup, Mick sent him home!!!
Mick sent home his best player because he didn't think he showed him
enough respect.
It goes back a long way.
Mick (when Roy turns up late or drunk or something on the coach):
"Call yourself a professional footballer?"
Roy: "Call what you have got a first touch?"
Well there are few who would doubt Roys professionalism and commitment
when it comes to football, but there some who might doubt Micks
professionalism when it comes to World Cup preperation.
Square that circle you Keano knockers!!
And to the people who say Roy should cripple himself playing meaningless
friendlies I think you need get your priorities right!.
Dont really like going over old ground, but is it not obvious that both McCarthy and Keane were at fault in Saipan.
The facilities were a disgrace, and Mick should have demanded more off the FAI - having to go via Amsterdam and then Tokyo (or where ever the change was in Japan) was disgrace, as was the fact the players went economy. And if the rumours that the FAI big-wigs went business/1st class are true then its even worse - its these gravy-train blazers who should be going steerage class, not the players. Almost of this is the direct fault of the FAI but it had been happening for a while, Mick had a duty to his players - he should have (and for all we know might have) asked the FAI to put the players travel first; and if this didnt/hadnt worked he should have publicly on the record complained himself via the media or whoever. None of us will ever know the exact ins and outs of the arguement in Saipan, if it was engineered or just happend or whatever. But Mick should have know Keane was a volatile player and any sort of public (ie in front of the squad) debate/argument with Roy in front of the team always had the potential to turn out the way it did.
Keane could have kept quiet till after the WC. Other experienced players like Quinn, Staunton, Alan and Gary Kelly, were probably as dismayed over the lack of facilities in Saipan. They had all been to World Cups before with Ireland and they clearly knew that the training facilities in Saipan were a joke. But they obviously took the view that complaining was going to achieve nothing at that stage, and it was better to wait till it was over. Quinn said afterwards that he pretty much agreed with Roy's points over Saipan, but felt it was in appropriate to bring it up during the WC Campaign. What Roy said to Mick, and the way he said it, was unprofessional. He may be passionate etc, but when he called him a ****** etc (esp. in public) it was always going to mean either him or Mick would have to go - and in that situation the manager is always the one that stays. Another thing I'd say is why didnt Roy come back after Mick left (after the 2 games for Euro 2004)., ie once Kerr was in charge. If he'd come back for our games vs Albania away, Russia home and the Swiss away he might have made the difference and if we'd won all them we would have been at Euro 2004. Given Greece won that, I think we could have gone far. [i](Im assuming he wasnt injured at the time, if he was out for those games then fair enough).
Ultimately both Roy and Mick put their own egos ahead of the team, they let themselves down, and let the country down.
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