Roy Keane has admitted he’s willing to go for dinner with new Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim ahead of today’s Premier League clash with Ipswich Town.
Amorim recently replaced Erik ten Hag and will take charge of his new side for the first time later today.
Speaking earlier in the week, the 39-year-old admitted he’d love to go for dinner with Keane.
“He was a player that I really liked,” the Portuguese told Sky Sports in an interview with Gary Neville.
Roy Keane has admitted he’s willing to go for dinner with Ruben Amorim ahead of today’s clash
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“I know he’s a little bit crazy! But he was a massive player and I like players with character.
“It was not just what Roy Keane did on the pitch, it was the way he influenced the others. I think that is very important.
“You must have this kind of player in the big clubs and I hope we’ll have, in the future, players like Roy Keane.”
Neville then offered to arrange dinner for Keane and Amorim.
And Keane has now admitted that’s something he’d be open to – so long as the new United boss pays!
“If he wants to take me out for dinner and he wants to pay for it, that is well and good!” he joked.
Amorim is undoubtedly facing the biggest challenge of his career with United.
The fallen giants haven’t got anywhere near winning the Premier League title since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013.
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United have splurged millions in the time since, while also hiring and firing the likes of Ten Hag, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal and David Moyes.
But they remain a long way off competing for the Premier League title with rivals such as Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal.
Keane has been impressed by how Amorim conducts himself in public.
Yet the former United skipper also fired a warning surrounding the expectations being placed on the former Sporting Lisbon boss’ shoulders.
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“You’re always hopeful when a manager comes into United he can come in and get United back up competing at the top,” he said. “It’s not quite happened the last few years.
“I think the PR over the first week from the new manager has been good, he’s spoke well, been very positive, a lot of talk about changing systems.
“He’s a young manager, very hungry, looks like he can hopefully deal with the pressure.
“But being honest, nobody knows until he gets into the job properly and that’s getting games under his belt.
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“You hope today they can come and beat Ipswich, put a marker down, get the team competing.
“It’s probably just more hope than anything else until he gets into the job and he sees what the real problems are.”