‘Two weeks ago Jonny Evans was on the beach – now he’s first team coach!’ Seething Roy Keane ruthlessly dismantles Man United’s new coaching set-up in tense exchange with Gary Neville

Roy Keane brutally dismantled the new Manchester United coaching group during a tense row with Gary Neville.

Michael Carrick has been named to replace the sacked Ruben Amorim and his new squad includes former England assistant Steve Holland, Carrick’s former Middlesbrough No 2 Jonathan Woodgate, retired defender Jonny Evans and Under-21 team boss Travis Binnion.

During a tense exchange punctuated by lighthearted moments, Keane quizzed Neville on the make-up of the coaching group, dismissed the idea that Holland’s experience made him some kind of ‘guru’ and criticized Evans’ complete lack of coaching experience.

Evans left his role as head of loans and pathways at United in December but was rehired in a more prestigious role just a month later.

Speaking in the last episode of the program Stick to football Neville said: ‘Steve Holland, I’m not saying this will bring success but he’s a serious operator. I think it made Carrick’s team better.’

Keane quickly followed up and asked: ‘What about the other coaches he brought in?’

Roy Keane bemoans Evans’ lack of coaching experience for Manchester United role

‘The other two seem like people he sort of trusts. ‘I don’t know I’ve never seen the other two coaches,’ Neville admitted.

Keane continued: ‘Two weeks ago Jonny Evans was on the beach. Jonny Evans left Man United as loan manager four or five weeks ago and then Darren Fletcher gave him the job, oddly enough he gave him the job.

‘It’s two games, Fletch leaves and Carrick gives him a job, isn’t it great? We should all go to Barbados for a week.

‘You’re busy recruiting the coaching staff, praising one of them as having experience and then we let the other two go, Jonathan Woodgate and Jonny Evans. What did Jonny Evans do to become the coach of Manchester United’s first team?

‘He left work four weeks ago; loans manager and ironically returned to work with the first team. Isn’t this a big step?’

“This is a huge step,” agrees Ian Wright.

Keane sarcastically replied “Thanks Ian”, much to the amusement of the panel, which included Jill Scott and Jamie Carragher.

Neville then tried to clarify his opinion, adding: ‘When Michael was announced I think ‘okay, he’s going to be under a lot of pressure, he needs to make sure his knowledge of the training ground is very hot’. ‘I think if he had just brought in Woodgate and Evans it would have made it a lot more difficult for him.’

Evans, who was photographed training with the team on Wednesday, left the club and returned last month.

Keane then wanted to delve deeper into Holland becoming assistant manager.

He said: ‘Going back to what I said earlier with Steve Holland, do you think what United need right now is just coaching?’

Neville replied: ‘My point is that if Steve Holland is on the training ground at least you know they’re going to get first class training sessions. I’m not saying they weren’t like that before, because they probably were. I don’t know how Evans or Woodgate are as coaches, I don’t know how Carrick is as a coach.

‘I mean he has a lot of experience, are you against the appointment of Steve Holland?’

Keane thought Neville was deliberately ignoring the counterpoint to his argument about experience.

“On the one hand, you sit here and say, ‘I’m so glad they brought in Steve Holland,’ but they brought in two other staff members and you fire them by saying, ‘I’m not really bothered by them,'” he said.

‘I wish we could sit here and say he brought in three staff and they were all great, so now we think that man is Steve Holland?

“I think he’s got a lot of experience, he’s got a good coach,” Neville reasoned.

Gary Neville and Roy Keane had a tense exchange on the podcast with Ian Wright (right), Jill Scott (centre) and Jamie Carragher (second from left).

Keane pointed out that experience does not guarantee coaching success and gave examples of previous staff members who did not work in the post-Ferguson era.

‘Steve McCLaren was experienced, Mike Phelan was experienced, these are all players from the last few years,’ he added.

Throughout the rest of the discussion the exchange went something like this: ‘When David Moyes came in I felt he needed to have some experience around him,’ Neville said.

Keane: ‘Who did he bring with him?

Neville: ‘He brought my brother and John Murtough with him…

Keane: ‘Absolutely, does that guarantee a place at Man United?

Neville: ‘I understand why you bring in a former player who knows the club, Mourinho did that at Chelsea, it’s not unusual.

Keane: ‘The idea of ​​bringing someone from the club doesn’t always work.

Neville: ‘I’m not saying it’s unusual, Carlo Ancelotti would do that…

Steve Holland (right) brings experience to the No. 2 position, but Keane said this was no guarantee of success and United had done this many times before.

Keane: ‘With Burnley and Brighton at home… Fletch knows the club, works with the academy, knows the girl in the canteen, calls Sir Alex Ferguson and asks what color socks he’ll be wearing in the morning. ‘How did the two games go?’

Neville: ‘They didn’t go so well.’

Keane: ‘Absolutely.’

Neville: ‘But I’m happy he brought in Steve Holland!’

Keane: ‘But you don’t know anything about Jonny Evans’ coaching because he’s never coached! That’s what I mean! But he went to Manchester United – but that’s okay because we have our new guru Stevie Holland! You were so excited about these people’s experiences that you worked with them in England…’

Neville: ‘He did a great job.’

Keane: ‘What was he working with in England?’

Wright: ‘The best.’

Neville: ‘But it’s not easy working with England, he did a good job with the Under-21s and was in the first team.’

Keane: ‘Here we go with the Under-7s…’

The first game in charge for Carrick and his coaching group could not have provided more of a baptism of fire.

United face local rivals Man City on Saturday afternoon as they look to steady the ship and guide the team towards Champions League qualification for the remainder of the season.

United have been eliminated from all cup competitions this season and will bide their time to appoint a permanent manager following Amorim’s sacking.