{"id":694795,"date":"2026-05-26T03:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694795\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:03:10","slug":"man-utd-roy-keane-shares-cryptic-donkey-post-after-bruno-fernandes-hits-out-at-man-utd-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694795\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd: Roy Keane shares cryptic &#8216;donkey&#8217; post after Bruno Fernandes hits out at Man Utd &#8216;lie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Keane has posted a cryptic message on Instagram just hours after an interview in which Bruno Fernandes slammed the Manchester United legend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-player-stats-2025-26-salah-haaland-isak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernandes has been Man Utd\u2019s best player this season<\/a>, helping Michael Carrick\u2019s side finish third in the Premier League table.<\/p>\n<p>Then Man Utd-manager Ruben Amorim deployed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/bruno-fernandes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernandes<\/a> in a deeper role in midfield, but Carrick, who replaced the Portuguese boss in January, pushed the 31-year-old back in his wonted number 10 role.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes flourished under Carrick, ending the 2025\/26 Premier League campaign with a record-breaking 21 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old also scored nine goals in 35 Premier League matches for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd<\/a> this season, winning the Premier League Player of the Season and the FWA Footbaler of the Year awards.<\/p>\n<p>What Roy Keane said about Bruno Fernandes<\/p>\n<p>However, Man Utd legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/roy-keane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Keane<\/a> recently took offence at too much being made of Fernandes\u2019 new assist record.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/rooney-picks-shock-man-utd-star-as-most-improved-premier-league-player-i-know-hes-experienced-but\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rooney picks shock Man Utd star as most-improved Premier League player \u2013 \u2018I know he\u2019s experienced but\u2026\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keane said on The Overlap last week: \u201cAfter the [Forest] game he got interviewed and he said, the captain of Manchester United said: \u2018A few times, I probably should have shot but I made them passes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow. How can your mindset of a footballer be going into a match to be about an individual record?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won\u2019t be winning trophies, not with that mindset of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Bruno Fernandes actually said in post-match interview<\/p>\n<p>Keane was referring to Fernandes\u2019s comments after the match between Man Utd and Forest at Old Trafford on May 17.<\/p>\n<p>What the midfielder actually said was, according to BBC Sport: \u201cThere were probably moments today when I should have passed instead of shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy for the assist, but more than that, I\u2019m happy for the win and to finish the season on a high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/ferdinand-man-utd-wonderful-ex-barcelona-star-might-be-crazy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferdinand urges Man Utd to sign \u2018wonderful, humble\u2019 ex-Barcelona star \u2013 \u2018Might be crazy\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What Bruno Fernandes said about Roy Keane<\/p>\n<p>During an extensive interview with The Diary of a CEO, Fernandes was asked about Keane\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>The Man Utd midfielder said: \u201cLike I\u2019ve always said, I don\u2019t mind criticism. I\u2019ve always taken criticism from everyone and anyone and I never reply to anything or whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have an opinion; they think it\u2019s good, bad, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I don\u2019t like is when people lie about things and [in] this case that you said about Roy Keane basically what he said is a lie because\u2026 either he saw some other interview or he can\u2019t say that I said one thing that I\u2019ve just not said and luckily for me is everything on record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI accept his criticism, I accept that he might like me as a player or not, like me as a person or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what I don\u2019t like is that he puts words in my mouth that have not been said. That\u2019s the only thing I don\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes added: \u201cObviously, I think I\u2019ve always showed a lot of respect for Roy Keane and for everything he\u2019s done for the club and for everything he\u2019s always said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never ever had something to say, I\u2019ve never said something wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI even asked Ole his number to text him to be honest, to have a word with him to say that I don\u2019t mind the criticism [but] I don\u2019t like when people lie about things that I say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause this is like\u2026 it goes a little bit over the top of the things that I think are acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI accept criticism. I accept that he can say things that I don\u2019t like and I don\u2019t like to see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as I said before, that improves me. What I don\u2019t like is that people make their own words on what I say and it\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, I prefer Roy Keane to give me some praise sometimes because I\u2019ve achieved something that not many players have achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that this club is about winning trophies and I have never taken that off my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy Keane\u2019s cryptic post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after Fernandes revealed his opinion on Keane\u2019s comments, the Sky Sports pundit made a cryptic post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The former Republic of Ireland international posted a drawing of a braying donkey, with the caption \u201cToo much attention makes a donkey think he\u2019s a lion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-team-season-25-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man City 5 Arsenal 3 in Premier League XI of season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Keane has posted a cryptic message on Instagram just hours after an interview in which Bruno Fernandes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,62966,585,818,1525,44,1614,53958,85,13852],"class_list":["post-694795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bruno-fernandes","tag-front-page","tag-home-page","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-roy-keane","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}