'You're going to be working in McDonald's!' - Roy Keane told ex-Premier League star 'I don't like nothing about you' in extraordinary dressing room 'hammering' as Man Utd legend is called out for 'insecure' management style

Former Ipswich striker Kevin Lisbie, who played in the Premier League at Charlton, told the Under The Coshpodcast that he had tried to erase Keane's tenure at Portman Road from his memory as it was so difficult. But he lifted the lid on some of the former Manchester United captain's craziest moments in his two-year period as manager, including his outbursts against individual players.

Lisbie said: "We had a pre-season tour in Ireland, we lost 2-1, and he spent 40 minutes just hammering players. [He said to certain players] 'You're going to be working in McDonald's in a couple of weeks... I heard we turned down a £1million bid for you and I would've snapped their hand off for it now.'"

Lisbie revealed that despite scoring in the match Keane took one look at him and told him he would never play for Ipswich again. He explained: "I'd actually scored on that day so I was sitting with a smile thinking he's got nothing to say about me, he's going to compliment me, but he just walked up to me and said: 'And I just don't like you. I just don't like your body language and I just don't like nothing about you. Yeah, yeah, you suck your teeth at me, you'll never play for me again'. We went back, and I never played for him again, so at least he was a man of his word! Literally that was it, and he just said: 'Try and find a club.'"

Lisbie said Keane only wanted to work with young players as he could influence their careers more than veterans, which he saw as a sign of the manager-turned-pundit's low self-esteem. "I don't think he was too interested in having senior pros, I think he much preferred to have the younger generation that he could mold. I don't know if it's an insecurity," he said. "Ben Thatcher was there at the time, he tried to get Ben out but he was retiring that year. Roy said to him he might as well leave but Ben wanted to stay.  He got him in at 6am everyday and he lived about two hours away. I remember when he told him he had to come in over Christmas. As we were walking out, there was a helicopter over our training ground. It lands on the ground, and Ben Thatcher runs out in his boots! And Roy Keane was just like [shaking his head]."

Keane never had another head coaching job after being sacked by Ipswich in 2011, although he later worked as assistant manager of Ireland as well as having brief spells as assistant at Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest. He said last year that he still misses not being involved in football, but believes a return to management is unlikely. He told The Overlap: "Obviously, I have been out of management for a number of years now, but still on a Saturday, I’m still agitated every Saturday, about not having a team, and I haven’t managed for nine, 10 or 11 years, so it never goes away. But it’s about what opportunity you were going to get."