FORMER Aston Villa and Manchester United star Dwight Yorke can’t see Roy Keane forging a successful relationship with Paul Lambert.
Keane’s old teammate at United told the Irish Examiner: “To go to Villa under Paul Lambert, do I see that working? To be totally honest I can’t, knowing Roy Keane as a person. Unless it is a changed Roy Keane, which I can’t see.
“I have a long affiliation with Aston Villa, I spent 10 years there, and I want to see the club improve. They have not been able to do that in the past three years. They have come unstuck a little bit since Paul Lambert went there, with Martin O’Neill the last successful manager there.
“So I want to see the club do well, and if Roy Keane can add something to it and get them success, then I am all for it.
“But this is a person I know who has been a number one in his way of thinking. Now he is going to be number two under Paul Lambert, an individual whom I don’t think he knows. I could understand it if it was his mate, but it’s not like that.
“I hope I am wrong, that he can do it and they can have a good relationship, and hopefully prosper and turn it into something really positive, but I think it is a situation we will have to watch very carefully and see what develops.
“He [Keane] is a man I played with and have a lot of respect for as a player. He has had multiple opportunities as a manager, and has done reasonably well at some clubs. But to go from number one to assistant manager? I have never seen Keano in that light. He has always been a leader, always been his own man.”
