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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yorksblue added 10:49 - Sep 28 Hes
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yorksblue added 10:50 - Sep 28 He's admitted what we all knew after just a few games
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whosroundisitanyway added 10:51 - Sep 28 Damn! Hoped he'd get the Norwich job when they get relegated.
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Robbie12345 added 11:01 - Sep 28 Why couldn't he have told us that before being our manager?! Sigh..
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kerryblue747 added 11:08 - Sep 28 Very wise me thinks unless he goes to norwich .
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TrueBlue93 added 11:10 - Sep 28 I could have told him that... Great player, average pundit, poor manager
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bluethroughnthrough added 11:11 - Sep 28 No sh*t
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big_gaz67 added 11:22 - Sep 28 I would say Average player, poor pundit, atrocious manager.
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NoCanariesAllowed added 11:27 - Sep 28 I don't think any of us were in doubt that he lacked certain skills, though it is quite surprising to hear him admitting it too. One of the differences I always felt existed between him and Paul Jewell was that PJ held his hands up, admitted he made mistakes and couldn't do it anymore. I seem to recall Keane's post-sacking comments including a certain element of "I still think I could've made it work," even though it was obvious to most of us that he was making a total pigs ear of it. Another one down on the Ireland job though - fingers crossed the FAI just take Martin O'Neill or find someone completely off the radar.

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Garv added 11:38 - Sep 28 Well even if clubs were thinking of taking a punt they won't now, unless they're really stupid. Credit for admitting this, but the bloke set this club back 5+ years. Can't say I'll ever be too fond of him.
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ericclacton added 11:38 - Sep 28 That man gives me the creeps.
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riley26 added 11:45 - Sep 28 You decided to flog Jordan Rhodes. Injudicious and sickening in equal measures, no management team with any inside knowledge would have done the same. Sigh. Please let Marriott gloss over that mistake...
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Michael11 added 12:14 - Sep 28 Worst manager in Ipswich Town's history. Just thinking about his time as our manager makes me angry. Now we have to watch his ugly mug talk about the England team as if he actually knows what he's talking about. By the way, you won't manage again because nobody is surely stupid enough to put their faith in you.
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Keaneish added 12:21 - Sep 28 Could you have not realised and admitted that to Marcus Evans before you presided over the sale of Jordan Rhodes and donked the cash on Tamas Priskin!? The worst transfer decision in our history?
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Taricco_Fan added 12:49 - Sep 28 The man comes across as having limited 'interpersonal' skills, unapproachable and takes himself so....very....seriously. These kind of 'rule through fear' managers don't last long in the modern game. Just look at Paolo di Canio.
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JustSpivvyChops added 12:50 - Sep 28 Cost the club £multi millions, sacked several club stalwarts (some of which have now returned thankfully), sold one of the most prolific talents seen in British football for years without giving him a game and set our development back at least 5 years.........should have had the balls to admit he was a fookin shoite manager before ruining our club!!!
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BillBlue added 12:55 - Sep 28 Riley, you mention Jordan Rhodes but hat about Bryan Klug possibly an even bigger obvious error?
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itfchorry added 13:16 - Sep 28 Best chant ever at Portman Road - When the Forest fans sang your getting Sacked in the morning and we all joined in ! Great news for Football
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bluefeast added 13:28 - Sep 28 he suffers no fools , so to manage players of lessor ability is a problem. Managing himself is also something he wouldn't be able to suffer
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neillrumsey added 13:51 - Sep 28 I can't agree with some of these comments to call RK an average player is nonsense he was a world class midfielder and proved it at every level. Football management is a different kettle of fish. His man management skills appear to be poor and to blame him for Rhodes when he clearly had to keep either Rhodes or Wickham we robbed Sunderland with the fee for Rhodes so yes it would have been good to keep him as he's a natural goalscorer. Keane made some great loan signing if you look back. I would say PJ was alot worse with no passion....

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BlueMachines added 14:07 - Sep 28 Crap pundit too!!
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shefkuqi32 added 14:33 - Sep 28 Every skill. He set us back 5 years, I'll be the first to admit I was confident when he came after Sunderland but that quickly changed. Plus nothing can forgive Jordan Rhodes, still makes me angry.
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dannysigma added 14:35 - Sep 28 In other news this week, the Pope has admitted to being Catholic...
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patrickswell added 14:36 - Sep 28 As honest as ever from Keane, but shows he has the inability to learn from his mistakes or try and develop those skills.
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KBsSocks added 14:42 - Sep 28 I must confess to having nothing to do with ITFC while he was in charge. A thug and a bully, and not very intelligent, either. Couldn't wait for him to go.
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