Roy Keane may have won 17 trophies during a highly successful 12-year stint at Manchester United – but when his shock Celtic transfer came around in December 2005, there was no guarantee he would be starter.
Keane supported Celtic as a child and the signing was deemed a huge coup at the time. But Gordon Strachan, the man who brought the Irishman to the Scottish top-flight on an 18-month deal, has detailed his first meeting with Keane prior to his grand unveiling and admitted that Keane’s facial reaction to being told he would start as a substitute didn’t match what he was telling his new manager.
“I used to play with two wingers and a forward player that would come back in and drop off the main striker, so I had no idea how I was going to fit him in there,” Strachan confessed, when asked about Keane retiring from football just six months into his Celtic move. “I had to speak to Roy Keane and tell him that he wasn’t going to be starting.
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