Former Ipswich striker Pablo Counago has described Roy Keane as a "mess as a football manager" and a "coward".

Counago was responding to Keane's claim in his new book that the Spaniard was "dead lazy" during their time together at Portman Road.

In a statement given to independent Ipswich Town website TWTD, Counago said: "It seems like he needs to criticise players, managers and directors etc to keep selling books as he is not able to do anything else in football."