Roy Keane is the Manager of Ipswich Town as well as the former Manager of Sunderland FC and the former captain of Manchester United. Keane is considered one of the best players to ever play in the Premier League and won countless trophies under Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford during his playing career. Keane started his playing days in his native Ireland before being picked up by the legendary Brian Clough to play for Nottingham Forest in 1990.

Keane impressed everyone at The City Ground and did enough to impress Manchester United who bought the tough tackling midfielder in 1993 and he would go onto become an Old Trafford legend.

Achievements

Keane signed for United for a then British record fee of £3.75million and he quickly displaced the ageing Bryan Robson in the United Midfield. Keane was a big success as Man Utd and eventually became club captain after Eric Cantona’s retirement. Keane was a big part of the treble season in 1999 as United won all three trophies but it was with mixed emotions as Keane was suspended for the Champions League Final.

Keane was a controversial figure at Old Trafford and was sent off on various occasions as well as openly criticising his teammates when he felt necessary which meant his relationship with the boss at Man United became frayed. Keane left United in 2005 by mutual consent and had a brief spell at Celtic who was the team he supported as a boy and he also made 66 appearances for the Republic of Ireland during his career. The next time we saw Keane was at The Stadium of Light in 2006 when he was the surprise choice of Niall Quinn to become the next Sunderland Manager.

When Roy Keane took over at Sunderland they were languishing in the relegation zone of the Championship but the Black Cats would go on a miraculous run that would end with promotion for Keane in his first season as a Manager. This was a remarkable turnaround for Sunderland and Keane rightly took the credit for the vast improvement. Sunderland had a decent season in the Premier League in which Keane kept them up reasonably comfortably and they were expected to kick on the following term.

However all did not go to plan the next season and with Sunderland struggling Roy Keane resigned as manager in December of 2008. Keane was out of the game until April 2009 when he was tempted back into management by Ipswich Town saying it was just the sort of challenge he was looking for in The Championship.

Job Security

Roy Keane is sure to be a man on a mission this summer as he looks to build an Ipswich team capable of winning promotion to the Premier League at the first attempt. Keane has signed a two year contract and he will be hoping along with the fans that the team show dramatic improvement during that time which will see him extend his stay at Portman Road. Keane will be safe in his job as long as Ipswich do show improvement next season and are at least in and around the play-off places hunt come the end of the campaign.

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