Niall Quinn backing Roy Keane for club management role

As his former chairman at Sunderland, Niall Quinn says he would have no hesitation in recommending Roy Keane for a management job should the Corkman decide to return to club football after the Euros.

But while former international Quinn thinks that Keane could well move on, he reckons a good showing by Ireland at the tournament would make it more likely that Martin O’Neill would remain as manager for the 2018 World Cup campaign.

“I would be certain that they’d like to see how they did at the tournament before they make that decision,” said Quinn yesterday, “but if Martin brings this team into the next stages, I think the lure of maintaining that and making the team great over the next two to four years would be enough to make him stay on.