Soccer Central

After Jim Magilton’s sacking yesterday; Roy Keane has now been named as the new manager of Ipswich Town. Having guided Sunderland to the Premier League in 2007, Keane will now be looking to do the same thing with Ipswich, and firmly believes that he has the squad strength and resources to do so.

Keane has signed a two-year contract with the club, and the Ipswich board obviously feels that Roy Keane is the right man to do the job of returning Ipswich Town to the Premier League for the first time since 2002.

£12 million has been spent improving the team since Marcus Evans became the club’s owner in 2007, and last season Ipswich finished just outside the play-offs in 8th. This season has not been so strong as last though, and the highest Ipswich can possibly finish now is 9th, and with two games to go; the club is currently 12 points off the pace of the play-offs.

Ipswich is not doing so well in the league as owner Marcus Evans had perhaps anticipated, the fact that Roy Keane is now the club’s manager should mean more success for next season though, and with a quality manager like Keane at the helm; the club’s fans will no doubt be feeling that anything can happen next season.

Roy Keane showed supreme strength as manager of Sunderland, and did fantastically well to turn the club’s season around and take the club back to the Premier League. Will Roy Keane accomplish his aim of achieving promotion with Ipswich next season though? We shall see, he’s definitely an excellent manager though, and will no doubt give it his best shot.