Micah Richards pokes fun at Roy Keane as pundit colleague set for Sunderland job

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Micah Richards could not resist poking fun at Roy Keane after he was linked with the Sunderland job.

The League One side are looking for a new manager after Lee Johnson was sacked on Sunday on the back of a 6-0 defeat to Bolton which has seen them drop to third.

Among the frontrunners for the vacancy is Keane, along with the likes of John Terry, Mick McCarthy and Grant McCann, but the Black Cats have made the Manchester United legend their top target.

That would be a sensational return to management, who has become synonymous with Sky Sports as one of their most hard-hitting pundits.

In fact, the 50-year-old has not sat in the managerial hotseat since 2011 after a two-year stint at Ipswich Town while it was Sunderland that gave him his first job as a coach in 2006.

But fellow Sky Sports pundit Richards has joked that he could be joining him as his assistant manager at the Stadium of Light.

Twitter account ODDSbible tweeted a picture of Keane which had emblazoned the 1/1 odds of him taking the job at the League One outfit.

Tagging the post, it read: “Wonder if he’ll get @MicahRichards in as his assistant.”

The former Manchester City defender replied with a reference to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano, saying: “Here we go