One of the toughest Manchester United players of all time, Roy Keane played alongside Mikaël Silvestre, played together at Manchester United from 1999 to 2006 when Roy Keane spent the last six months at home in Ireland for Celtic.
Silvestre, who with his 10 years at Old Trafford has the right to speak out about the internal conditions of the club.
The idea of bringing in Roy Keane from Manchester United’s coaching staff has been circulating for a while. Mikaël Silvestre wants to see it happen. “That would be amazing,” the Frenchman told yaysweepstakes.com.
Roy Keane seems to have put his coaching career on the back burner. The tough Irishman hasn’t had a job since he was assistant to Martin O’Neill at Nottingham Forest in 2019 and now works as a TV pundit.
However, there are those who want to see him return to the coaching bench. More specifically: to the one at Old Trafford. Former Manchester United teammate Mikaël Silvestre would like to see Keane join Rúben Amorim’s staff.
“It would be fantastic if he could get a role at Manchester United.” The thing about Roy is that he always treated everyone equally. It didn’t matter if you were a new signing, an experienced player or a coach. All. That’s how he deserved everyone’s respect. That’s how Sir Alex (Ferguson) got respect.”
“If you treat everyone the same – then there will be no problems. The new generation of players has a harder time accepting criticism and that is a problem. But if Roy Keane was involved at Manchester United, if he was on the inside and in the group, he would have protected them and worked for them.”
“You wouldn’t see him criticizing players in public (like on TV). So there would be no problems. But the truth is that as soon as you say something to the players today… they don’t collapse, but it affects them much more (than previous generations).”
Manchester United face Real Sociedad tonight at the Reale Arena. – Winning the Europa League is in reality the only possibility of playing in Europe left for next season. Manchester United are currently in 14th place in the Premier League.
