Manchester United legend and Champions League hero makes big Roy Keane claim
Teddy Sheringham played alongside Roy Keane for four seasons at Old Trafford and believes the Irishman should have managed the Red Devils.
Roy Keane should have managed Manchester United, says Red Devils legend and 1999 Champions League final hero Teddy Sheringham.
The treble winning star lined out alongside the Ireland international between 1997 and 2001, scoring 46 goals in 153 appearances for the Old Trafford giants.
Sheringham won three Premier League titles, a League Cup and an Intercontinental crown, along with the 1999 Champions League title, when he scored an injury-time equaliser in the final against Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou.
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His honours list is in stark contrast to the club’s current woes, where they have started the new Premier League campaign with two defeats in their opening three games under Erik ten Hag.
He reckons Keane has the “aura” to manage his former club.
“I do think there's another job out there in management for Roy Keane,” he said, speaking at the launch of Ladbrokes' 'Gaffer of all Accas'.
“I'd have actually liked to have seen him in charge at Man United at some stage; I think he just has that aura about him.
“I don't think you're going to get him out of the position he's in now, though; I think he's found a lovely little niche for himself, what he's doing with Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher.
“I'd be very surprised if he went into management now, especially with his track record of reacting to things when they're not going his way, as a manager.
“He could very easily be in a job and out of it again in six months, and find himself with nothing.
“I'd have loved to have seen him in charge of Man United, but I don't think that's going to happen now.”
Sheringham and Keane also played briefly when the Corkman first arrived in the Premier League.
He moved from Cobh Ramblers to Nottingham Forest and the former England striker said: “I knew Roy from my time at Nottingham Forest, before we became teammates at Man United later on down the line.
“There was definitely a change in him as a player, without a doubt.
“When I was at Forest, he'd only just broken into the first-team when I arrived there, and he was an absolutely phenomenal, up and down, central midfielder.
“I played up-front with Cloughie [Nigel Clough] and so there wasn't a lot of pace up there at all.
“And so every time the ball came up to me or Nigel, he'd be running beyond us and giving the centre-halves problems.
“He was such a different player, by the time I got to Man United. He was a sitting midfielder who controlled the game, he didn't go forward half as much as what he used to.
“Whether he was told to do that, or whether his game had just changed, I don't know.
“But at Forest, every time the ball came up to me, he'd be running beyond me, whereas at United, that just didn't happen.
“Fergie [Sir Alex Ferguson] had probably had a chat with him, or maybe he'd worked his own game out himself, and he just thought he'd end up running himself into the ground if he didn't change his game.
“But he was a phenomenal youngster, and changed his game perfectly to lead Man United.”
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