West Ham are looking for a new manager after sacking Avram Grant after the the defeat to Wigan on Sunday.
“I’d love to be given the job. I’d love to be given that sort of opportunity,” said Keen.
“At the same time the owners are experienced and they know what they want for next season.
“They’ve been chairmen in the Championship before with Birmingham and they’ll have a vision of how they want to take the club forward.
“I’m claret and blue through and through, I played for the club for nine years and I’ve coached for nine years so I’d love to be given the opportunity.
“I feel I’ve served my apprenticeship.
“I’ve worked with Tony Carr at the academy, I spent four years with the young lads and then I spent a couple of years in the reserves until Alan Pardew made me first-team coach.
“I’ve worked with Alan Pardew, Alan Curbishley, Gianfranco Zola and obviously Avram Grant this year.
“I look at what Brian McDermott has done with Reading this year, someone who’s very loyal, very hardworking, very humble and maybe it’s time for West Ham to go for someone like that.”
