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Former Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray could walk away from broadcasting for good when they leave beIN Sports at the end of season, it has been claimed.

Keys and Gray have spent the last 13 years in Qatar fronting coverage of the Premier League and Champions League after leaving Sky. The duo, who are now 68 and 70 respectively, are understood to have reached a mutual agreement with their employers to part ways at the end of the 2025-26 campaign and will depart on amicable terms.

The Telegraph report that both men are planning to return to the UK, with Keys set to move in permanently with his wife, Lucie Rose, whom he married in 2013. Neither Keys or Gray, the report adds, are expected to continue broadcasting upon their return.

As things stand, Keys and Gray are not expected to anchor coverage of this summer's World Cup despite fronting beIN Sports' offering back in 2022, when the tournament took place in Qatar.

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Keys and Gray were the faces of Sky Sports' Premier League coverage until the latter was sacked for making sexist remarks about assistant referee Sian Massey in 2011. Keys later resigned after clips of comments he made were also made public.

Speaking in January 2021, Keys was recorded as saying: "Somebody better get down there and explain offside to her (Massey)."

Gray then replied: "Yeah, I know. Can you believe that? Female linesman. Forget what I said - they probably don't know the offside rule." Keys retorted: "Course they don't," to which Gray responded: "Why is there a female linesman? Somebody's f***** up big."

Keys has since claimed that 'dark forces' were working against them and that he and Gray were set up. “The incident, we should have seen coming,” he said, via The Athletic. “It was a set-up, of course it was. But they made capital out of it.”

“Don’t forget, neither of us were caught behind an open mic,” he added. “What happened to me was recorded on a telephone in that studio, it seems to me it was done with a specific purpose. Andy wasn’t live when he was stood pitchside.

“That anger that I carry in my back pocket, I will never, ever put away.”

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