{"id":467876,"date":"2026-05-26T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:12:14","slug":"bruno-fernandes-accuses-roy-keane-of-telling-lie-after-assists-record-remarks-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467876\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes accuses Roy Keane of telling lie after assists record remarks \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruno Fernandes<\/a> has accused Roy Keane<\/a> of telling a \u201clie\u201d about his pursuit of the Premier League<\/a> assists record. Manchester United<\/a>\u2019s captain secured the outright record for assists in a season by taking his tally to 21 in Sunday\u2019s 3-0 win at Brighton.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old had equalled the previous record, shared by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne, a week earlier during United\u2019s 3-2 victory over Nottingham Forest. Keane suggested Fernandes was prioritising individual glory over the team\u2019s interests, describing him as being at the centre of a \u201ccircus act\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Overlap podcast, Keane said: \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 Wow. How can your mindset of a footballer be going into a match to be about an individual record? He won\u2019t be winning trophies, not with that mindset of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Where do Leinster and Ulster go from here?<\/p>\n

Fernandes\u2019s actual post-match remarks were: \u201cThere were probably moments today when I should have passed instead of shot. I\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

Fernandes said Keane, a former United captain, had put untrue \u201cwords in my mouth\u201d. He told The Diary of a CEO podcast: \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

\u201cPeople have an opinion; they think it\u2019s good, bad, whatever. What 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 everything is on record.<\/p>\n

\"BrunoBruno Fernandes says that Roy Keane has twisted his words. Photograph: Michael Regan – The FA\/The FA via Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201cI accept his criticism, I accept that he might like me as a player or not, like me as a person or not. But what I don\u2019t like is that he puts words in my mouth that have not been said.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keane then appeared to stoke the feud by posting on Instagram: \u201cToo much attention makes a donkey think he\u2019s a lion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fernandes said he had contacted the former United manager Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r to ask for Keane\u2019s phone number so he could address the issue. \u201cI 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,\u201d Fernandes said. \u201cWhat I don\u2019t like is that people make their own words on what I say and it\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes has accused Roy Keane of telling a \u201clie\u201d about his pursuit of the Premier League assists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7815,61,60,917,1102,271,112],"class_list":["post-467876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bruno-fernandes","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-roy-keane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467876","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=467876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}