Former Blues boss Roy Keane has admitted he deserved the sack at Town, citing his recruitment and poor results.

Keane, who was in charge at Portman Road from April 2009 until January 2011, was speaking on the Overlap podcast when he, Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher and Ian Wright were joined by Jaap Stam.

While discussing managers always asking owners to bring in more players, Keane conceded he was backed at Town but that results weren’t good enough.

“Of course, you've got to see it from both sides, 100 per cent,” he said. “You can criticise owners all you want but sometimes they do give the manager their backing.

“And if your recruitment is not right, again, when I was down at Ipswich, I brought in players and I look back and I deserved the sack, absolutely 100 per cent.

“Could I have done with a little bit longer? Yes, of course, but when you look at the players I brought in, I didn't win enough games and you go yes, that's no blame on the owner for that, absolutely not.

“But you hope sometimes when you're going through a difficult spell that you get that backing.”

The Town job was Keane’s last as a manager, although he subsequently assisted Martin O’Neill with the Republic of Ireland and Nottingham Forest, and Paul Lambert at Aston Villa.

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carlo88 added 10:36 - Dec 18 His results weren't too dissimilar to Lambert's, who got a five year contract. Work that one out.
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trncbluearmy added 10:50 - Dec 18 Wrong, he didn't deserve to be appointed
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JackNorthStand added 10:57 - Dec 18 As a manager at Ipswich it didn't work out. And that taints him for some, but his footballing legacy is up there with the best, a great as a captain and a serial winner.
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bucket99 added 11:03 - Dec 18 Thing is, he left us in a worse state than we were when he arrived. Good riddance.
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trncbluearmy added 11:10 - Dec 18 The only thing I remember about him as a player intent on maiming other players
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johnwarksshorts added 11:15 - Dec 18 Rubbish Manager imo.
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muhrensleftfoot added 11:15 - Dec 18 Marcus Evans' first managerial appointment. He made the mistake of thinking a great footballer automatically makes a good manager. It's a common mistake - Lampard, Rooney, Gerrard etc etc
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baxterbasics added 11:29 - Dec 18 Appreciate the honesty - but that's about all!
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JackNorthStand added 11:34 - Dec 18 trncbluearmy that is ridiculous. He was key to manchester uniteds dominance in English football for a long period under Ferguson.
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number8 added 11:37 - Dec 18 As a manager the jury is out. However, one bit of evidence is he was appalling with us. Recruitment was awful he purchased a lot of guff. As a player, right up there with the best the premier League has seen. As a captain do they get any better?? A winner!
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Woolfenthen added 11:39 - Dec 18 only taken him about 13 years to work this out???
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trncbluearmy added 11:44 - Dec 18 Jack Northstand To be honest couldn't give a toss what he did or didn't do at manure He was a thug on the pitch and a crap manager
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ChrisR added 11:44 - Dec 18 Disaster buys Lee Martin and Martin Fulop , disaster sale Jordan Rhodes !
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FrankMarshall added 11:57 - Dec 18 Civelli was a good buy, can't predict an injury like that. Martin was brought in once Civelli left.
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TimmyH added 12:01 - Dec 18 He deserved it...the dark lord was clueless! the amount of times I saw him in the dug out during games looking not particularly bothered...
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fifeblue added 12:07 - Dec 18 ChrisR: Disagree about Marten Fulop - he was an excellent goalkeeper. How about Priskin? And one or two he brought in from his time at Sunderland?
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Broadbent23 added 12:10 - Dec 18 It is interesting out of Fergie dream team Keane's manager record is the worst. The League cup semi final made him slightly better than team Paul. Never darken PR again.
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Wonky added 12:15 - Dec 18 Only memorable for the car stickers that hung around for years after he'd gone.
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Stu_boy added 12:39 - Dec 18 Civelli was a magilton signing not a keane signing, keane wasted millions though on players like priskin and martin along with dire loan signings like that new sealand lad from plymouth, cant even remember his name. Keane was a legendary player at united and had won the league with Sunderland, his man management was poor though and it just didnt work out
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Generic added 12:57 - Dec 18 I don’t like Keane but I do worry for him. If he starts developing self-awareness then he could become a danger to himself. Best blame it all on Jon Walters and carry on thinking you’re brilliant, Roy!
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ImAbeliever added 13:02 - Dec 18 Roy Keane 0 - Jon Walters 1 ..
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JewellintheTown added 13:14 - Dec 18 Love the players we've got and how the way KM gets the best out of them working together but imagine if he'd inherited this list of players that RK spent an estimated £8.5Million on (in 2009/10 money). https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ipswich-town/transfers/verein/677/saison_id/2009 Some gambles but a solid prem capable team in the making there if KM had worked his magic and got the best out of them. Shows how spoilt and bad RK as a manager must have been & how good KM is with what he has.

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SpiritOfJohn added 13:24 - Dec 18 One of those players you love if they are on your team, but hate if they are against you. Got dirtier as he got older - his talent waned and he revelled in the 'hard man' label. Deliberately set out to injure another player and seemed to have got away with it, until the emergence of Haaland junior who will be paying him back on the pitch for the next ten years. Surprisingly good as a pundit where he has a dry sense of humour and can be a good talker. His shortcomings as a manager could have been down to trust issues and an inability to listen to his players. Not a good judge of a player - selling Rhodes for peanuts and buying Priskin and Martin for over a million quid each - unforgivable business!

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Europablue added 13:48 - Dec 18 You couldn't really get a better contrast to KM. The signings and the results were not the worst of it, it was the destruction of the club and wasting of resources that set us on the way to relegation and peeing off our own players and fans. Why exactly was Magilton sacked? It was probably similar to the Rooney case, ex-player with half-decent managerial experience at one club brought in as a glamourous option when the league position really wasn't that bad at the time of the sacking.

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shenfieldblue added 14:05 - Dec 18 The rot started with Keene, he ruined our club. Has taken us such a long time to get back.
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