Gabby Agbonlahor reveals Roy Keane incident at Aston Villa amid Sunderland talk

Former Aston Villa captain Gabby Agbonlahor has put forward another reason why Roy Keane's time as Aston Villa assistant manager "didn’t work".

Paul Lambert 's ex-assistant is the favourite to be appointed Sunderland manager again following the sacking of Lee Johnson at the end of last month.

Keane managed the North East club from August 2006 to December 2008 before resigning due to differences with shareholder Ellis Short and club chairman Niall Quinn.

Since then and a subsequent stint in charge at Ipswich Town, the long-time Manchester United captain has been an assistant with the Republic of Ireland national team and at former club Nottingham Forest either side of a less than five-month spell at Villa Park.

Now Lambert's captain at the time has lifted the lid on another incident that took place in the aftermath of Keane's departure.

“He obviously left on bad terms with players,” Agbonlahor told talkSPORT Breakfast. “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 done the story.

“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.”

This is not to first such story that Agbonlahor has told recently, after also sharing a training ground altercation that he believes played a part in Keane's departure from the club the following day.