Roy Keane confirms next career move and his thoughts on quitting Sky Sports punditry

Manchester United fable Roy Keane has outlined his plans for the aboriginal aft putting a timeframe connected his punditry career, which includes ongoing enactment with Sky Sports and ITV

Former Manchester United skipper Roy Keane has disclosed his plans to relocate overseas successful the coming years.

Keane, who spent astir of his illustrious vocation astatine United nether the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson, near the nine successful a astonishing determination successful 2005. After starting his nonrecreational travel astatine Nottingham Forest, helium aboriginal had a stint astatine Celtic station his United departure.

Following his status from shot successful the summertime of 2006, Keane took up managerial roles astatine Sunderland and Ipswich Town. However, aft leaving Portman Road successful January 2011, the present 53-year-old transitioned into punditry, moving with ITV and Sky Sports.

Keane is simply a regular connected The Overlap, and during a caller occurrence helium revealed to Jamie Carragher, Ian Wright and Gary Neville that he's considering a determination to a spot similar Switzerland successful the adjacent future.

"In the adjacent mates of years, I reckon I volition beryllium moving abroad... putting it retired there," helium told the trio successful the On Tour occurrence successful Turin. When Carragher asked astir his imaginable destination, Keane responded: "Do you cognize what, Switzerland, maybe? Switzerland is beautiful."

Back successful August, Keane expressed his volition to discontinue from punditry wrong the adjacent decade. He said: "I emotion football, but the hassle of matches, getting to games, and the hassle of fans.

"I was successful tribunal a fewer months agone with idiosyncratic headbutting maine bash you deliberation I bask that broadside of it? Absolutely not.

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"The games are fine. Getting to the games, parking up, radical shouting your sanction bully stuff, atrocious worldly it's a nuisance. Being a pundit successful 10 years, not."

Keane was assaulted by Arsenal instrumentality Scott Law, 43, pursuing a lucifer betwixt the Gunners and United successful September 2023. After the lawsuit went to trial, Law, from Essex, was banned from entering a shot crushed for 3 years.

The fracas began erstwhile Keane and chap Sky Sports pundit Micah Richards were making their mode pitchside to behaviour post-match analysis, with the ex-Ireland planetary being headbutted done doors by Law.

A justice ruled Law had been “untruthful astir what happened” and helium was recovered blameworthy of assault. As good arsenic the three-year banning order, helium was ordered to implicit 80 hours of unpaid enactment and wage ineligible costs of £650 positive a unfortunate surcharge of £114.

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