Kenny Cunningham's keen insight into Roy Keane's true qualities
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- At the weekend on BeIN Sports, Richard Keys questioned Roy Keane's reputation as a truly great footballer.
His former Ireland team-mate Kenny Cunningham has his say about what Keane was really like in matches and in training technically and otherwise
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In my opinion, Roy Keane is the best player in premier league history. Now, before my head bitten off, he's the best leader I've ever seen, the most consistent passer, an underrated dribbler, tackled like a center half, and won games. Never has somebody put the team on their back like Keane, never has a man rallied a team, never has a man commanded a pitch like Roy Keane. I haven't seen anybody like him since, and I miss it.
until he played against fernando redondo thats when keane found his level
I love and respect Keane, but Stevie G could do everything Roy could, Scholes could and Lampard could, he was a leader, aggressive, passing range was unbelievable, and he scored his fair amount of goals! Was he as good a leader as Keane? No! Was he as good a passer as Scholes, no, was he as consistent on the goal front as Lampard? No! But he could do ALL of them to a top level! Keane was a great player, but not the best! He’s the best commentator though, love listening to him talk about football as well!
Andy McKay really ????
@@davidrowan3853 gerrard wasnt on the same level as those three. He was ill disciplined, reckless in possession and selfish. Theres a reason why Benitez put a couple of proper midfielders behind him in Mascherano and Alonso. He doesnt belong in the same sentence as Keane and Scholes.
B T gies piece mate! Away tae yer bed
I remember in the late 90s people consistently talking about Keane being denied Player of the Year because of his temperament before he won 1. It was remarkable the difference between Utds performances when he played and when he didnt. When you consider the players they had.
What a player.
A game that really showed keane's quality was Ireland vs Holland 2001, he dragged Ireland through the game against a Dutch team loaded with talent.Same vs the portugese, he was main reason we got to WC 2002
The more I hear him talk in interviews and as a pundit, the more he impresses me.
Top man
Roy Keane the player is the most underrated player the premiership has seen......a true great..... and its used too much...... Keane was class
So true. can,t beleive there is even discussion about him being a great player.he is so good that i beleive he can play in any football team since the invention of football,Roy one of the best
Not only class he had an impact on the everyday outlook of the modern Irish man..... question any sporting Irish great in the last twenty years and Keanes impact runs through them..... there isnt a player in his position that he did not DOMINATE..... KEANO
Brian Fitzgerald
Keane was class. I watched him week in week out for United and he was 8 or 9/10 every week. Pogba isn’t fit to lace his boots.
no he isnt very rated
Roy Keane basically had Man Utd 1-0 up in the tunnel before the game.
@Enoch Powell No he has a point. Keane more often than not won the psychological battle before even a ball was kicked.
Good to hear Kenny Cunningham's views on Keano - he knows.
Keane might be a difficult person but he was & still is one of the greatest midfielders the Premier League has ever seen. He was also the greatest in his position in the world for 2/3 years. I’m not a United fan either.
He is the closest player to Lothar Mattheus ive ever seen
was he?
steveetienne not sure about that he wasn't as dirty and was capped about a 150 times for Germany 🇩🇪 scoring 23 goals only German player to get world player of the year and European player of the year was faster than Roy had a better shot on him, more intelligent, definitely more creative passing the ball better reader of the game . Roy in the Premier league was definitely a great player but not a match for Matthaus & koeman , but hey just my opinion and two of the best at that all round kinda holding midfielders plus they could play sweepers and did for the latter part of their careers the German at 38 and the Dutchman managed to bag about 240 goals playing as a defensive midfielder or centre half .
Try 10 years
@@johnmcintosh5465 1999 although didn’t play final but medals is what counts
Roy Keane in my opinion was probably the best midfielder in Europe in his career
After watching the opening minute of this I was like "yep... knows what he's talking about ".
Some individuals have had more skill or more pace or scored more goals but no one has played as well as consistently as Roy Keane during the Premiership era. Without doubt the most influential player and best captain the PL era has seen!!! WTF does Richard Keys know? lol
oh please
Bhoy was a winner ,the position he played for the team there wasnt a better player in world football for about 5/6 seasons bhoy was world class player best captain epl has ever seen HH💚🍀
Imagine Ngolo Kante but better at passing, tackling and with more energy. That was Roy Keane.
No it wasn't. Keane was a brilliant, brilliant player but he wasn't anything like kante. And I'd take a guess that kante covers more ground than Keane did. Keane was a great leader, was better going forward than people give him credit for and was one of the main reasons old Trafford was a fortress for 15 years
@@charlielumley8889 itd be close. keane covered quite a bit of ground.
@Mark Sesum agreed boxto box in his early days however believe the amount of ground covered in the modern game is a decent amount more than early/mid nineties.
I hated Man Utd because of Keane, He was MUFC. But you look now and realise how good he was.
Most important player United had in the time he was there. There were more naturally talented players - Beckham Giggs Scholes Rooney Schmeichel etc but United were nothing without Roy Keane.
His commitment, leadership and standards on the pitch turned United from a good team into a great team.
Keane going on about the mentality a player should have after walking over the white line of the pitch had me welling up inside. How there's fallouts in any industry but that you have to give your absolute all regardless.
Playing forward and simple is exactly what United lack today. The tangibles and intangibles Roy brought just don't exist today. Everyone's way too PC and sensitive.
Legend end of.
Anytime any pundit even suggests something negative about Keane's playing career, they always follow it with a " don't get me wrong" or some other form of apologetic phrase, as if not appreciating keane's brilliance is some sort of sin
Don't get me wrong now!
Soooooo true
Kenny was great at Wimbledon. Very underated always gave 100%
THIS IS IT: 'Experts' and football fans alike, drone on and on about stats these days, as if to suggest the player with the most goals and assists is the most vital player in the team. Keane's killer stats are unimpressive, but as Cunningham said, he kept the ball moving, always played it forward, broke up and ignited attacks. Without that quality, you don't win football matches very often. So, yeah, I'd say Keane was the best player in Premier League history. Shove your highlights reel
Keane in todays game would totally lauded... i guarantee it!! there hasnt been another player since him across the globe who can do what he did. they are a different breed. The man covered every blade of grass on the pitch and rarely did the wrong thing on the ball.
Difference between Keane and Carrick, Keane always creating, going forward, Carrick was the barber, short, back and sides..
He was a very poor replacement really.
@@laidbackjack3166 I don't think Ferguson was looking to replace Keane with Carrick.
@@siddharthjoshi861 Well ill change my sentence then.
He was poor in comparison. Very poor.
@@laidbackjack3166 I don't think so. He didn't have the aura of a Keane or a scholes but he did his job well enough to consistently feature in that utd side
No, Carrick was consistently among or the highest forward passers in Europe
It's much easier to 'get' Keane when you play competitive games as a forward, even if it's just Sunday league. He's the player who you make a run for every single time he gets the ball because you know if and when he picks you to pass it to, it's going to be quality.
How many motm awards has Roy won in his career, seemed like he was motm almost every time
Soooooo true
This was great. Well said fellas
Bobby Charlton possibly gave Keane his greatest compliment by saying he was the only player he had seen that could be compared to Duncan Edwards.
Wow
If Roy Keane was English he would have been mentioned as one of the world's best 👌 but British media which we all listen to they wouldn't say it enough.. I am a life long Liverpool fan that Always respected and was afraid of Roy against us .
Im a Spurs fan but i can only imagine how good Glenn Hoddle would be with Roy next to him
Great shout.
Keane would be worth 200 million in todays market
@@epektasis242 Yes you are right.....he would be worth more.
more
he would b worth nothing now because there all pussys now red card every time he plays
@david henry ur a puff
Ohhh Roy Keane's fuckn magic wears a magic
Hat 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
these days we wax lyrical about kante, well Keane and Vieira were few levels beyond kante. cover as much ground, get the ball back as much as kante, didnt give the ball away, winning headers, score the odd goals, in addition to being a leader.
Even Makelele has a position named after him in a sense. We think of hm as defining the midfield anchor role. In my mind, Roy defined the box to box role.
Agree with you both 💯 %
what are the games on the shelf behind Kenny?
At this particular moment in time or at any particular moment in time. King Kenny.
Love kenny gave his all for us
First name on the team sheet.
Very best player ever my God look at his games my God his pace fight to the very last second please don't be ridiculous A warrior
That was a really good side 2000 - 2002. Such a shame what happened with Keane at the wc.
Johnny Giles named, Dave Mackay & Souness as two of the hardest and best he's seen at that position and he was a great footballer himself ✌️
Johnny Giles? The same Johnny Giles who didn't want Jack Charlton as ROI manager? Unless you are from Dublin, Johnny hasn't much good to say about anyone.
That bit about Kilbane 😀
Richard Keys always shows himself as someone who does not understand football, he has the views of a star struck teenager. Roy Keane is doibtedly the greatest midfielder in PL history. Only Scholes and maybe Gerrard get close.
benito tommassi No way is SG to be talked about in same regard as RK. Keane win 7 premier league title. He bossed the premier league for a full decade. SG doesn’t have a PL medal. Roy is the reason why
He done what you want off a midfielder ,he bossed the game , win your battles first ,end of
Brian Clough knew how good he was the first time he saw him play a reserve game as a teenager. Brian knew a thing or two about football.
He signed trevor Francis and then won the European Cup
@@davidkavanagh8175 Yes, but won promotion, the league, the league Cup and reached the final of the European Cup all before Francis had kicked a ball in a red shirt. The club didn't have a benefactor. The Francis money came from success.
@@Lazarou73 point taken, but you can't say that Francis never played a part in the success of forest when he was there?
As a man united fan i wish paul pogba would watch videos of roy keane and learn how to pass a ball .
even though pogba is a better passer lol
@@shesbaldbutiwould Pogba has a better passing range but keane kept the ball much and better he was better at playing passes that would break the lines .
Keane also had much better positional sense as well which enabled him to dominate the midfield in a way that pogba could only dream of.
@@greengrass811 Keane kept the ball better because he wasnt that ambitious with his passing thats great but if youre looking for a pass like for instance the one pogba supplied for rashford against tottenham youre never going to get it. Yes Keane was great at passing through midfield but he couldnt open a defence like pogba with his passing but i suppose thats fine when you have paul scholes and david beckham as midfield partners. Also Keane was dominating midfields bereft of world class opposition,giving dennis wise and rob lee the run around is wonderful doesnt make him the second coming of christ.
@@shesbaldbutiwould Yep. Keane never did the business against world class opposition. Inter, Juventus, Real Madrid etc. just packed their midfields with plonkers. Ask Dino Baggio and Demetrio Albertini how they went against him in the World Cup SMH
@@bahyasta I didnt say never but he never dominated europe midfields regularly you're talking one off games dont know why youre bringing up real madrid saw keane get outplayed by redondo then zidane,rob lee and david batty and steve stone he was lords against them
Cunningham was a legend at blues. Him and upson, KRO king kenny
There’s a lad who knows football. The way he is talking you just know he has played 100’s and 100’s of games of football
Saw the Keys comment, was ridiculously poor and I was screaming these examples - Rooney etc. Well done guys.
Best there is...best there was...best there ever will be 😎
He was one of the last perfect box to box player aside from his leadership
the one who criticized roy the player is the one that hates united or the one that hasn't seen him play live, or simply doesn't understand football. roy the manager/assistant manager is a complete houseburn though, he has neither the management skills or the coaching skills.
Roy kean ALWAYS gave 101% !!!
His first touch was up there with the best.
killa was a gent and if you gave a pass back to the keeper he would praise you that's just the way he is so that's why they said it
Best player I've seen too, Xabi Alonso had a lot of his traits, and I think Fabinho and Fernandinho are close too
For me the only 2 other players that are like Keane are Vieira and Gerrard. They were very different in many ways but they are the three all out box to box midfielders that could do everything to a top level. Defend, run, play it forward, tackle, dribble, score tap ins, headers, screamers, leaders, all 3 of them
@@fruityguyxxx I wouldn't class Gerrard in the same league defensively as Keane and I'm a Liverpool fan. Gerrard, I would liken more to Cantona, he could get forward and win you a game with a piece of magic. But he couldn't control a game like Keane.
Alonso could control the game, the tempo. And watch Fabinho now, he's an absolutely brilliant player in the mould of Keane. Always there, shielding the centre halves, linking the play, controlling the game
Yes I agree, Alonso is a good comparison, more like Keane in that was always in the right place and moving correctly, but he lacked the engine. The really important part of both Gerrard and Keane was their ability to tackle, burst and create attacks, and you needed an engine they both had in their younger days.
@@fruityguyxxx keane and dribbling? give me a break
Keanoooo forever...
Let's not forget Kenny cunningham was a quality centre half
Richard “it was just banter” Keys is just a bitter old man. Anyone new at Sky, who’s successful (Keane, Neville, Carra), Keys is envious of.
better than scholes, gerrard and lampard
Well you never can tell, can you. It's a game of ninety minutes and we're only half way.
what richard keys knows about football could fit on the back of a postage stamp
I think that you are being to kind
100% !! Richard Keys clown !
He dresses like one for sure 😀
Why can’t Irish pundits let the legend of the man rest. Roy Keane is the best Irish footballer of all time. Always a debate, always about Saipan, always debate debate debate. All the time. Irish football needs to move on. My god.
Kenny Two Banks of Four Cunningham
Fantastic leader, with a superb engine but 33 goals in 12 years is not that of legends. Fine competitor but Gerrard was the far better footballer.
Look at the size of Kenny's glasses, they must weigh a tonne.
Roy Keane was a fantastic midfield player(At one time"Box 2 box")For Man Utd and Ireland..But unfortunately he w/b remembered for his Dirty tackles and challenges..And it does appear he could cultivate a argument in an empty Phone box!.And he always places himself as the injured party/victim..Not so sure about that,he enjoys the controversy &being at the centre of the attention..But as I said,when he was on form,he personified what a leader on the field is meant to be!
I wonder if their pants are on
Cunningham was nice to Keane but Keane didn't speak kindly of Cinningham
True, but what Keane said still wasn't that bad. He said Cunningham, as captain, wanted to be everyone's best mate rather than trying to win the game. Considering how Keane laid into Walters and Sir Alex he was relatively tame towards Cunningham.
Did i just hear "he wouldn't have the technical ability of Gerrard"?
This lad has never played football at any level if he's making statements like that. Long range shots which were few and far between and dried up in the second half of his career, and happened because his team was poor, which gave him license to shoot, mean he has superior technique?
Roy Keane has scored long range goals, he just played at a better team that won things so he never took it upon himself to smash from long range like Gerrard most games. Look up how many Gerrard missed.
gerrard easily a technically a better player than roy keane lol also scholes was popping them in from long range in the same team so what exactly are you talking about
@@shesbaldbutiwould You're proving my point, when you have Someone like Scholes in your midfield next to you along with other Utd cast members, then there's not as much on your shoulders to take all the hit and hope chances, that may sometimes go in.
@@zombievikinggaming4258 orrrr or the the players who are better at those things do that and you stay in your lane,keane was the weakest technically in his midfield so he had to forget about all that
@@shesbaldbutiwould Watch young Keane clips before he transitioned to a holding midfielder. He was a burst in the box and bagging goals type, like a Lanpard or Gerrard.
@@zombievikinggaming4258 I know that doesnt mean he was as good as them technically thats like saying inzaghi was as good as romario because he could score a goal in the box like romario could
While he was a classy player, he did have an aggressive, dirty side to his play that went over the edge at times, and his deliberately breaking Alfe Haagland's leg (and then boasting about it in his book, released around 15 months later) did take something away from his achievements and have a lot of people wondering "what the f*** is with this guy?" In addition, his cynical, shoot-from-the-hip criticism of the Irish defenders after the infamous Thierry Henry's handball in 2009 was uncalled for, as were his comments about Irish fans at Poland / Ukraine in 2012 (some of whom, no doubt, had made him richer by buying his shirts over the years) who deserve to be respected. As assistant coach he did give the players that bit of confidence that had been lacking, which I applaud him for, but all in all, he's a complex guy: God to Man U. fans, the devil to others; and this is coming from a die-hard Ireland fan...No offence intended to fanatical RK fans, but I'm simply stating some facts... peace brothers and sisters....
Roy Keane on Kenny Cunningham's true qualities : "Utter nonsense."
Roy Keane is a great player, coz his from Ireland.
The Ireland do. no. have. Any good player.. That's why the Irish people think his a good player.
In Brazil he doesn't play in our five player Street team. It is what it is.
Don't know what Dias is on? Are wtf he is talking about.
You know he captained one of the biggest clubs in the world right? In their most successful era?
Roy would have walked into the Germany team that spanked brazil 7-1. Fed up with the Brazil gods nonsense, remember Anderson?
He was far superior to Dunga
Oh dear god you are hilarious 🤣 you clearly have never watched him play for the world's biggest club at the time and captained them to so many titles. Go educate yourself