ROY KEANE has been left speechless after former rival Giorgio Chiellini picked his shirt over Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
The Italian legend gatecrashed a recent recording of Sky’s new show The Overlap on Tour.
Keane was joined by fellow analysts Gary Neville, Ian Wright and Jamie Carragher for the recording.
Seated in a restaurant, the quartet were left shocked as former Juventus centre-back Chiellini made a shock entrance.
The 40-year-old strode into camera shot wearing a vintage Manchester United strip.
Neville gasped: “You look great in that kit!”
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A visibly stunned Keane agreed: “It suits you.”
The former Juve centre-half spun around to reveal the strip had Keane’s name and number on the back.
Chiellini explained: “I was at an event of classic shirts and they ask me ‘Okay, pick one.’
“I look for the first one. It was not Ronaldo, it was not Messi.
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“I said I want Manchester United and Roy Keane.”
One fan laughed in response to the clip on X: “Chiellini got Roy Keane blushing so hard.”
Another said: “Keano! Greatest ever CM in prem history.”
While a third added: “That’s brilliant. Chiellini is a class act.”
And a fourth quipped: “When you see Keane smiling, you are already more blessed like when you see 20 unicorns.”
Chiellini later joked he almost left Juventus to “join Sunderland” when Keane was manager of the Black Cats in 2006.
Keane laughed in response: “You would have loved it!”
Ruben Amorim is ‘Mourinho 2.0’ who turned Sporting from ‘walking dead’ into Portuguese champs… he can revive Man Utd
WHEN Ruben Amorim took charge of Sporting Lisbon in March 2020, one club official compared their situation to the “walking dead”, writes Jordan Davies.
Optimism and hope was at an all-time low.
But the Amorim-effect was almost instantaneous, guiding the Portuguese sleeping giants to their first league title for 19 years in 2020/21, losing just once and only conceding 20 goals.
Since then, Sporting have lifted another league title in 2023/24 – as well as two League Cups – and currently sit top with nine wins from nine this term.
He may be young, but Amorim already has an eye for rebuilding and revitalising fallen super powers with his infectious charisma and intense tactical philosophy that hardly ever wavers.
The “walking dead” at Manchester United must be praying for a similar sort of revival.
And they may just get it from one of the most talented young coaches on the continent – a man accustomed to breathing new life back into crumbling institutions such as Old Trafford.
Amorim has spent the last decade dreaming of one day gracing England’s Premier League, such was his admiration for an ex-United boss in Jose Mourinho growing up.
Often nicknamed ‘Mourinho 2.0’, Amorim spent a week with his coaching idol in an internship capacity at United’s Carrington training base in 2018, going on to cite him as his “reference point”.
United should not be expecting a mini-Mourinho, as Amorim said himself: “Mourinho is one of a kind. There won’t be another Mourinho. Mourinho is unique.”
And yet, you cannot help but compare the two.
For all the mismanagement in the Old Trafford hot seats over the years, this would be a real get – finally a slap in the face United’s Prem rivals have no answer for.
Chiellini is widely regarded as one of the best centre-backs of his generation.
He started his career at Livorno, before joining Juve in 2004.
The Italian would go on to play over 400 times for the Old Lady, winning nine Serie A titles.
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Chiellini earned over 100 caps for Italy during his 23-year career, wining the Euros in 2020.
He finally hung up his boots last year at the age of 39 after a season in the MLS with Los Angeles FC.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
