With question marks hanging over Arsene Wenger’s future at his beloved Arsenal football club due to lack of silverware over the past few years, why not talk about a prospective successor at the Emirates Stadium! Well, many of my wise and knowledgeable readers would find this article to be too virtualistic to even comment on yet I persist on my futuristic assessment of a change in guard in the Arsenal dug-out. Take something unthinkable of at the very moment-Roy Keane is a major front runner to be the next manager at N5 if and when Arsene Wenger leaves his post in the foreseeable future.

Well, why not? Keano has the guts and knowledge of the game to guide a team like Arsenal to new heights. The former Manchester United favorite did have some serious battles with the Gunners, most notably with fierce opponent Patrick Viera, during the period when Arsenal and United battled for Premier League supremacy yet Keane’s battling attitude on and off the field is the real necessity at this very moment for the North London club.

Roy Keane’s experience as a manager is nothing compared to a stalwart like Wenger yet there is something in the former Republic of Ireland captain that has the hallmark of a future managerial great capable of winning silverware at a regular basis.

Keane’s departure from Sunderland last week was swift and unexpected. No one expected this to happen although results were going horribly wrong for the Northeast side and the manager took it on a personal note admitting full responsibility for the club’s free fall.

Given the full support that Roy Keane enjoyed from the club’s board, players and fans, it was surprising to see him go on an era when managers of football clubs crave for boardroom support. Yet after 100 games in charge at the Stadium of Light, the 37-year old Keane thought the time was right to quit Sunderland whom he guided from the foot of the Coca Cola Championship to promotion at the big league when appointed as manager in August 2006. He turned a bunch of serial losers into a group of fighters who never let go of a battle without a fight.

Roy Keane has to return to Premier League as soon as possible for football will be a loser with his absence from the game. According to Arsene Wenger, Roy Keane has the tenacity to be a brilliant manager. His understanding of the game and the participants of it would take him a long way to be an accomplished coach on the lines of Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Fergusson. Many has already tipped Keane to be the natural successor to Sir Alex at Old Trafford but you never know what’s next in football. If Roy Keane gets over the disappointment of Sunderland quickly, fans could see the Premier League great return to managerial duties a stronger and wiser man and it won’t surprise me if one of the big clubs, including Arsenal, go for his signing in the near future for herein lies a man that could match his illustrious playing career with an equally successful managerial one.