ROY KEANE signed Dwight Yorke for Sunderland without knowing he had changed position.
The pair played for Manchester United and were part of the famous Treble-winning team.
Keane quit playing in 2005 and became manager of Championship Sunderland a year later.
And he signed his former team-mate Yorke just days into his tenure, but ended up playing him in a different role to the one intended.
Yorke explained he was a holding midfielder by summer 2006, and pointed out Keane would have been aware of that if he watched him play for Trinidad & Tobago at the World Cup that year.
He told Ladbrokes Fanzone: “I played in that holding midfield role for Trinidad and Tobago against England in the World Cup.
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“I captained the team and played in holding midfield; it wasn’t that difficult: just get the ball, hold it, and give it to the players who can run faster than you!
“Roy Keane didn’t know that I had made that transition he thought that I still played in the number 10 role.
“But when you’re playing at that level, it’s a frustrating role to play because your team-mates would very rarely see the pass quick enough to make it, and so I would drop deeper to get involved.
“I think something happened where one of our players had got sent off, and so I dropped into midfield and dictated the play for the rest of the game, and then the following game, he came to me and said I’d be playing in midfield.
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“But I don’t think he realised I was already playing in that position for my country and out in Australia.”
Keane, 52, has not managed since 2011 but has been linked with a return to the Black Cats in recent years.
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However Yorke believes he would be better suited to international management rather than club, suggesting modern coaches are required to do to much at clubs – something Keane is not cut out to do.
He added: “He’s got all of the ingredients, Keano.
“I just think that the individual I know, and what is required of a manager nowadays – a modern coach who deals with every aspect of the football club – isn’t Roy Keane.
“I don’t think he’s cut out to be that way; you’ve got to be more of a people-person, and Keano’s never really been that.
“I think international management is more suited to Keano, where he can have control, get the players for a period of time, and pretty much f*** them off for a bit when they’re done, and then get them again.
“He has that presence, and that aura… Keano has it all, but I just think an international job is much more suited to him. I’d take a chance on him internationally.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
