Man United’s 1998–1999 treble-winning team is among the most iconic teams in football history. The team was led by Sir Alex Ferguson, the most successful British manager in history, and featured a number of legends who are regarded as some of the greatest to have ever played the game.
Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s stoppage-time goals helped them defeat Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final, becoming them the first English team to win the treble in history.
The squad was full of homegrown talent, with members of the prestigious Class of ’92 dispersed all over the field. Among them were players like David Beckham, who played 394 times for the Red Devils, and Paul Scholes, who spent 19 years and made 716 appearances for United.
David Beckham, United Manchester In addition, United has a number of talents that they acquired from other teams. While players like Jaap Stam were imported from abroad, Aston Villa and Newcastle were the destinations for deadly center-forward tandem Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole.
One player, though, was an export from the Premier League as well and went on to become United’s club captain and one of the greatest Red Devils in history.
Numbers from Roy Keane’s Man United career Keane Roy Between 1997 and 2005, Keane led United for eight years as captain, and many club members rank him as one of the greatest captains in club history. United won 10 trophies, including the treble, when he was captain. But in all, Keane left Old Trafford with 17 trophies in his trophy case. Tenth on their list of all-time greatest appearance makers, the former Ireland international made 479 appearances for United in total.
Three of Keane’s teammates from the 1999 triple squad are also included in the top ten, which serves to highlight just how good that team was. Although it was not his primary duty, he contributed more than his fair share of goals to the Red Devils’ total of 51 goals and 39 assists when he was at Old Trafford.
Keane was a relentless ball player who never shied away from a challenge or refused to give up. His well-known midfield skirmishes with Arsenal’s Patrick Vieira serve as the ideal illustration of this. The Irishman was a player who never let up and ran tirelessly for his team.
Beck, Roy, Keane, and Vieira Keane was an excellent distributor when he had the ball and could find players with ease. Because of his notoriety, he was especially good at line-breaking passes, an aspect of his game that is frequently overlooked. Against Juventus in the second leg of the 1999 Champions League semi-final, he played one of his best games. Despite receiving an early yellow card, which would have prevented him from playing in the final if United advanced, he continued to put in a lot of effort for his team and scored the game’s opening goal, which spurred United on to victory.Keane, Roy Once, Scholes, his midfield partner, called him “unbelievable to play alongside.” Later, Keane’s previous number 18 for United talked about some of the leadership qualities that made him famous, saying that he “drove us on” on numerous occasions. How much, though, would he fetch in the current transfer market? We know the solution. Roy Keane’s estimated net worth in 2024 When United acquired Nottingham Forest’s Keane in 1993, they shattered the British transfer record. They broke the previous record when they paid £3.75 million for the Irishman, topping the £3.6 million paid for Alan Shearer when he joined Blackburn from Southampton. Although that established the British transfer record more than three decades ago, a conversion tool from The Transfer Index estimates that Keane’s deal would have been valued at an astounding £118 million if he had joined United today. That would have been a better deal than the £115 million Chelsea paid Brighton in the summer of last year to get Ecuadorian international Moises Caicedo and the £105 million Arsenal paid to sign Declan Rice, a master midfielder. It would have surpassed PSG’s deals to buy Kylian Mbappe from Monaco for £166 million and Neymar from Barcelona for £200 million to become their third most expensive transfer ever.Mann-Utd, Beckham-Keane-Giggs Out of all the players in the current Red Devils roster, Keane’s transfer to Manchester United was the most valuable. Marcus Rashford is currently Erik ten Hag’s most valuable player. The attacker is reputedly valued at £100 million, and there are rumors that United may sell Rashford shortly. Rasmus Hojlund and Alejandro Garnacho, two young stars, are valued at an estimated £85.5 million by CIES Football Observatory. When everything is taken into account, United’s acquisition of Keane ranks among the club’s greatest transactions to date. He was their midfield’s lifeblood, a multiple trophy winner, and an incredible leader up front. One of the best midfielders in Premier League history, he will always be remembered.
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