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Keane Not Looking for Assistant - Ipswich Town News

Blues boss Roy Keane says he’s not currently looking to add an assistant manager to his backroom staff. Keane was looking for a deputy in the summer but with new Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers understood to be his number one target, called off his search in pre-season.

The Town boss says that position hasn’t changed, although he isn’t ruling out a change of heart at a later date: "Not at the moment, but I don’t have my head in the sand and if there is a person out there that I think can help take the club forward [then I’ll bring them in]. I talked to one or two people over the summer but it didn’t pan out.”

Keane says that despite the recent back-to-back losses, he isn’t panicking: "After a couple of defeats, I haven’t been getting out my black book and phoning people who I think can come and help us.

"There’s no panic or emergency. We don’t like losing football matches, but I think it’s the first time in a long while that we’ve lost two in a row.

"We don’t like it, but I’ve got great faith in the staff and I have with me and we need to do a slightly better job.”

Keane admits that he may have made errors at Watford: "We made changes the other night and sometimes it’s not about the players getting it wrong, it’s about the manager and the staff getting it wrong.

"We never shy away from that and maybe we got it wrong the other night and on Saturday."

"It’s not just about the players doing their jobs properly, it’s about the manager doing his job properly and I’d have to say looking at the last week, I haven’t done it well enough.

"But there’s always another game. In terms of an away game we couldn’t have picked a tougher one because Forest are very, very strong and I still think they’ll be in the mix right at the end of the season.”

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