Keane May Not Manage Again - Ipswich Town News
Former Town manager Roy Keane has admitted that he may be “missing certain skills ever to be a boss”. The 42-year-old left the Blues in January 2011 and says he may never take on another management role.
Speaking about the vacant Republic of Ireland position, with which both he and current Town boss Mick McCarthy have been linked, Keane said: "First of all nobody has approached me about the job and secondly I do not know if I will ever return to management.
"I loved my time at Sunderland and had a bad experience at Ipswich. But when I look at the pressures associated with football management I ask myself do I really need it.
"Football management is a 24-hour task and maybe I am missing certain skills ever to be a boss.”
Like McCarthy, Keane says frontrunner Martin O’Neill would be perfect to succeed Giovanni Trapattoni, who departed by mutual consent earlier in the month: "I know a little bit about Martin O'Neill and I think Martin would be a very, very good choice.
"I think the FAI have done the right thing in stepping back, taking their time and seeing what is out there. A lot of managers have been linked with it. A lot of good managers.”
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