Payoff for O’Neill and Keane may cost €3m

Having scaled the highs of Lille, and Long versus the Germans, and having sunk to the lows of Denmark and a tepid Nations League campaign, the O’Neill-Keane era has come to an end “by mutual agreement”.

The Football Association of Ireland has remained tight-lipped on the terms on which Martin O’Neill and assistant manager Roy Keane’s time in charge of the national team has ended.