Keane was among the names on bookmakers\u2019 lists before Wilfried Nancy emerged as Brendan Rodgers\u2019 permanent successor.<\/p>\n
The Irishman will get a brief taste of Scottish football on Thursday when his Ferencvaros team host Rangers in the Europa League.<\/p>\n
The former Hoops forward has led Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Budapest side to league titles during the early years of his managerial career but he says he is not looking for a challenge beyond Hungary.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mind is just here,\u201d he said. \u201cI am very happy here. It has been a really good year, it\u2019s been a successful year. We won the league last year. We are doing well in Europe now. We are at the top of the league. I am really enjoying it. I work with good people here.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t help speculation. My time at Celtic was great. Of course, I went there, we were already 12 or 14 points behind. So it was obviously going to be a difficult task to win [the league]. But just the chance to play at Celtic was huge for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had an unbelievable time there for the six months I was there. I was personally successful in what I did.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, you would want to win something when you\u2019re at Celtic but the team was certainly in a transitional period at that time. But it was great. The years after that, they\u2019ve been dominating for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if he would like to return one day, the 45-year-old said: \u201cListen, you can never say never in football, of course, but I never think too far ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t. I have to concentrate on what I do, because you take your eye off the ball here, and then you start losing games, you lose your job.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, never say never, of course, but at the moment I\u2019m very, very happy here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keane is not the only member of the Ferencvaros set-up with experience of Scottish football.<\/p>\n
Former Aberdeen player and manager Stephen Glass is his assistant and goalkeeper David Grof spent two years with Hibernian early in his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI moved to Scotland when I was 16 years old,\u201d Grof said. \u201cIt was a big step in my life. It was a great place where I could learn a lot.<\/p>\n
\u201cScotland is very close to my heart. To this day, I have a lot of friends in Scotland with whom I still keep in touch. In fact, there will be people who come and visit me now.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s special that I can play against a Scottish team, but I also thank the country very much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferencvaros v Rangers, TNT Sports 2, 5.45<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keane was among the names on bookmakers\u2019 lists before Wilfried Nancy emerged as Brendan Rodgers\u2019 permanent successor. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5082,61,60,26592,47632,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-185921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-celtic-fc","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-rangers-fc","12":"tag-robbie-keane","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}