Agbonlahor reveals Roy Keane stormed over to Tom Cleverley’s house to accuse him of leaking stories

Roy Keane marched over to Tom Cleverley’s house and demanded to speak to the midfielder, believing he had leaked stories to the press, according to Gabriel Agbonlahor.

Sportsmail revealed this week that former midfielder Keane tops the list of many within Sunderland to be made their new manager, and will be spoken to about returning to the Stadium of Light 13 years after he quit as boss.

Ex-striker Agbonlahor reacted to the news of Keane’s potential return to management by saying the Sky Sports pundit was ‘disrespectful’ to players during his time at Aston Villa. 

Keane was assistant to Paul Lambert (left) for four months before leaving the post

Keane joined Villa as assistant manager in July 2014 under Paul Lambert but lasted just four months in the role before he quit to focus on the same position he held with the Republic of Ireland. 

And Agbonlahor has now shed light on his management style after claiming the Irishman took his anger out on midfielder Cleverley, who was on loan at Villa from Manchester United during the 2014-15 season.

‘He obviously left on bad terms with players,’ Agbonlahor – who scored 87 goals in 391 appearances for Villa between 2005 and 2018 – said on Breakfast via talkSPORT. ‘No goodbyes.

‘But, somehow the papers and the media got hold of what had happened in training. So Roy figured that it was Tom Cleverley because I think Tom Cleverley knew the guy who did the story.

Gabriel Agbonlahor slammed Keane’s man-management at Villa Part in comments this week

‘Clevvers didn’t really send any information to him, but Roy in his mind thought that it was Clevvers – but he didn’t.

‘Roy Keane turned up at his house and it was so funny because Clevvers said he could see him in his intercom.

‘I think Roy was shouting in his intercom, ‘Let me in.’ So it just shows that you’ve got that sort of temperament and you can see why it didn’t work at Villa.’

The comments come just a couple of days after Agbonlahor, 35, hit out at Keane’s man-management and suggested the ex-United captain could not cope at the West Midlands side.  

Now he has revealed he went after on-loan Man United midfielder Tom Cleverley

He told talkSPORT: ‘The problem with Roy Keane when he came to Aston Villa was he couldn’t understand we weren’t as good with the players he played with.

‘He couldn’t accept that we weren’t as good as Giggs, Scholes, Beckham and them players and just his way of coaching wasn’t the right method for players nowadays and players when he was at Aston Villa.

‘And just the way he spoke to players. There were times where there were experienced players like Joe Cole and he just didn’t speak to them right.

‘He spoke to them in a way that was disrespectful. His man-management I’d say was a zero out of 100 it was that bad.’