Louis Saha is in two minds about Roy Keane replacing Erik ten Hag at Manchester United.
Keane cuts a more relaxed figure as a pundit after a couple of spells as manager, at both Ipswich Town and Sunderland, and he was assistant at both Aston Villa and Ireland.
However, he occasionally is linked with a return to management, and with Erik ten Hag under pressure in a poor second season at Old Trafford, former United team-mate Saha said that Keane’s abrasive style could cause problems.
He said to OLBG : “Roy Keane would have a big impact as Manchester United manager, that’s for sure. But he’d need to have a different kind of communication than 20 or 30 years ago. You can’t just destroy players anymore, it won’t work.”
He added: “But he would have an impact, when I was at the club there were so many local boys who were so focused and wanted to win so badly that you didn’t have any other choice.
“The manager then doesn’t need to have as much communication because you have 10 to 15 players that lead the way for foreign players. Now it seems like they only have a few players that provide that kind of leadership.
“I got to play with Keane, Ferdinand, Evra, Vidic, Van der Sar, Gary Neviille, Phil Neville, Ronaldo, Rooney, so if you have Ji Sung Park for instance come into the club then he will soon learn the way to win.
“So what I’m saying is that Roy Keane alone is not going to be enough, United need 15 players to have that calibre and that kind of approach. I do see players with passion like Varane, Martinez and Maguire but they are outnumbered.”
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