{"id":251040,"date":"2026-01-18T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251040\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:27:12","slug":"why-roy-keanes-endorsement-of-eddie-howe-to-take-over-at-manchester-united-will-almost-certainly-fall-on-deaf-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251040\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Roy Keane\u2019s endorsement of Eddie Howe to take over at Manchester United will almost certainly fall on deaf ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Howe has Roy Keane's stamp of approval. Photo: Stu Forster\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6feb4605-7036-4bf2-b567-24b917b9c062.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Howe has Roy Keane&#8217;s stamp of approval. Photo: Stu Forster\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Roy Keane has not offered up too many managerial endorsements amid his headline-grabbing TV appearances down the years, so his nomination of Eddie Howe to be the next Manchester United boss was something of a left-field intervention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Keane\u2019s post-football career has been built around his persona as the Mr Nasty of punditry, with his rare moments of praise tending to be bestowed on the true greats of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howe has Roy Keane&#8217;s stamp of approval. Photo: Stu Forster\/Getty Roy Keane has not offered up too many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15135,35471,61,60,917,1102,271,919,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-251040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bournemouth","9":"tag-gareth-southgate","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-roy-keane","15":"tag-ruben-amorim","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251040","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=251040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}