Manchester United icon wants to be Roy Keane’s assitant on management return

Jaap Stam wants his erstwhile Manchester United teammate Roy Keane to instrumentality to absorption and has offered his services arsenic his assistant.

The Irishman has been successful coaching roles much precocious but has not been a manager since leaving Ipswich Town successful 2011.

The 53-year-old made a precise agleam commencement to his absorption vocation astatine Sunderland arsenic helium led them to promotion into the Premier League, but near aft 100 games successful complaint and his spell with the Tractor Boys was underwhelming.

Keane has suggested helium would beryllium unfastened to a instrumentality to the dugout and Stam would beryllium precise overmuch down that decision, hoping to enactment with the legendary midfielder if helium does instrumentality complaint of a nine again.

Speaking to BoyleSports, who connection the latest Champions League odds, Stam said: ‘I would emotion to spot Roy Keane backmost successful absorption and I’d emotion to beryllium his adjunct manager. I deliberation helium has the imaginable to beryllium a large manager due to the fact that helium knows truthful overmuch astir the game.

‘He tin springiness a batch of idiosyncratic proposal to players and however they tin improve, but the determination volition beryllium up to him. He is doing good successful punditry astatine the moment.

‘It’s a precise antithetic beingness successful management, time and night, you person to beryllium acceptable for the manner and the nine successful question and the players. I’m definite helium enjoys his existent relation but I’d emotion to spot him successful the dugout again, if helium needs an adjunct past I’ll beryllium there.’

Stam is presently connected his ain travel successful absorption having spent clip successful complaint of the likes of Reading, Feyenoord and FC Cincinnati.

The memorably imposing defender is presently successful complaint of DOS Kampen successful the sixth tier Dutch football.

Stam is unfastened to different opportunities, though, talking up Scottish shot and his involvement successful moving determination astatine immoderate constituent successful his career.

‘My adjunct astatine Reading, Andries Ulderink, is present moving for Rangers, he’s a bully guy. There person been a batch of Dutch managers and players implicit there, including Dick Advocaat,’ helium said.

‘When I was moving with Advocaat astatine PSV helium tried to bring maine to Rangers, but unluckily for him Manchester United came successful for maine the aforesaid summer.

‘I’ve ever followed Scottish shot and erstwhile I played for Willem II I had the accidental to articulation Celtic. I had an accidental but I wanted to enactment successful Holland and support learning.

‘But some Celtic and Rangers are large clubs and everyone recognises their grounds, everyone is ever reasoning astir shot implicit there.

‘One time I’d emotion to negociate successful Scotland, possibly for Rangers oregon Celtic oregon for different club. It would beryllium astonishing for maine due to the fact that the fans are truthful passionate astir the crippled and I emotion that.’

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