Kieran McKenna / Ipswich manager

3 games into a Championship season with a side that should never have been in League One and heavily backed by American investment. If they get promoted this season fair enough but way too early to be praising him. Just another dig towards United by journalists.
 
Big Ben Foster said:
Shitting on the assistants is always the go-to approach for our fans when results aren't going our way. Happened with Moyes as well in the early months, before most finally admitted he was out of his depth.
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Does this happen any other club?

I'm sure Dorris the tea lady might eventually be blamed for the clubs underperformance.
 
Didn’t watch the game but it looks like they absolutely destroyed them and somehow conceded two goals from 0.27xg for Wimbledon.
 
This will always happen with the way teams who try to dominate the ball higher, but you have to obviously hope on the whole it doesn't happen very often.

It does look bad when it does and people tend to remember these results more.
 
I'd be on the McKenna train. None of the other touted names are inspiring.
 
He'd be my top choice actually.. Would love to bring him back
 
VP89 said:
He'd be my top choice actually.. Would love to bring him back
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Mine too. Intelligent. United fan. Has been at the club and only gone and achieved a miracle with Ipswich.
 
Would he leave Ipswich before the end of the season?

He's probably my pick either way. I can't see us getting Alonso. Klopp and Ancelotti will never happen. And I doubt that Zidane would be a success for us.
 
McKenna in, I haven't got a wedge of money riding on him from the summer influencing my decision.
 
How long would people be prepared to give him to turn it around is my main concern with him. He doesn't have a CV or reputation to fall back on with the media. When we get the bad spells, I would worry about how the media treat him.

There are no standout candidates, and whoever is next is more likely to be chewed up and spat out than they are of making a long term success of the job.
 
He's still very new to management so ideally I'd like a United manager to have a few more years under their belt, but if it's a choice between him and Southgate there's only one winner!
 
I'll be for McKenna.

Know the club. Has a definite gamestyle. Shows that it doesn't take loads of money to play attractive football.
 
Can't see Ineos taking a punt on a guy with so little managerial experience. If they did bring him in, how much time and money would they give him? What if results and performance don't change after 3... 6 months? They'll be called out for appointing a bloke who clearly wasn't ready to step up to the 'biggest' job in club football. I don't see them taking this risk.

Which unfortunately makes me fear that Southgate will be seen as the safe pair of hands with all the relevant man management, experience and expertise to get the team back to winning ways. If Ashworth in particular is a big fan, then I'd need some serious convincing that they'll consider someone else. Southgate is deluded enough to think his style of play will be enough to win over the fans, the media, the team and put trophies in the cabinet.
 
I'd take him over Potter or Southgate, or going back to begging Tuchel to take a job he doesn't want, but I still wouldn't want Mckenna, it's got disaster written all over it.
 
He did well at a level lower than the Prem and plays modern football. But there's an awful lot of managers who can say as much. The only differentiator seems to be "knows the club". Given our recent history, its debatable how much of a strength that is. Feels like wishful thinking that this guy can turn around a club of this size, even with the help he'll get from above.
 
TrailMonkey said:
Can't see Ineos taking a punt on a guy with so little managerial experience. If they did bring him in, how much time and money would they give him? What if results and performance don't change after 3... 6 months? They'll be called out for appointing a bloke who clearly wasn't ready to step up to the 'biggest' job in club football. I don't see them taking this risk.

Which unfortunately makes me fear that Southgate will be seen as the safe pair of hands with all the relevant man management, experience and expertise to get the team back to winning ways. If Ashworth in particular is a big fan, then I'd need some serious convincing that they'll consider someone else. Southgate is deluded enough to think his style of play will be enough to win over the fans, the media, the team and put trophies in the cabinet.
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Southgate lost about 50% of his premier league games as a manager and averaged about a goal a game. I wouldn’t be so sure you could sell that to Sir Jim.
 
Still don’t feel he’s quite ready yet for United. The pressure at United now is at an all time high - fans’ patience is wearing thin and he will feel the pressure as soon as he drops any points.
 
Should have hired him in the summer. We'd be no worse off than we are now.
 
We won’t go with Southgate, he’s too much of a soft touch for these premier league personalities.
 
We finished 8th and the manager was kept and supported with another 200M. I refuse to believe McKenna could do worse. He coach a team with shoestring budget which outplayed Villa with attacking football. Give the same team to ETH we would be pumped 5-0 or 6-0 every game.
 
I'm kind of hoping he's on our shortlist of managers for the new owners, Dyche steers us to safety, Ipswich are relegated and he wants to try and take a new challenge, with other clubs like Chelsea, United etc. in a good place with their respective new managers they've changed to mid season.

Don't ruin this fantasy for me.
 
quadrant said:
He did well at a level lower than the Prem and plays modern football. But there's an awful lot of managers who can say as much. The only differentiator seems to be "knows the club". Given our recent history, its debatable how much of a strength that is. Feels like wishful thinking that this guy can turn around a club of this size, even with the help he'll get from above.
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He's not merely done well at lower level, he's done remarkably well. Look at their points tally from last season in the Championship. That's mostly a League One team. He's special.
 
Bastian said:
He's not merely done well at lower level, he's done remarkably well. Look at their points tally from last season in the Championship. That's mostly a League One team. He's special.
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A team that gets promoted from the championship clearly isn't a league one team. That's pure hyperbole to try to boost your preferred option.

McKenna has done well, but to ask him to come in and turn the current mess at united around is borderline career suicide and an unfair one for us to expect for him to do.
 
ErikElevenHag said:
A team that gets promoted from the championship clearly isn't a league one team. That's pure hyperbole to try to boost your preferred option.

McKenna has done well, but to ask him to come in and turn the current mess at united around is borderline career suicide and an unfair one for us to expect for him to do.
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Its not hyberbole is was a league one team. They were bottom half of the table in league one before he took over and they didnt spend any money. If you don’t know what you are talking about its best to keep quiet

Would he be good at United? Who knows
 
RedinIndia said:
I'll be for McKenna.

Know the club. Has a definite gamestyle. Shows that it doesn't take loads of money to play attractive football.
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It’s alright saying this but it’s one thing getting Ipswich towns players motivated and a hell of a job getting our lot motivated and to play a certain style
 
ErikElevenHag said:
A team that gets promoted from the championship clearly isn't a league one team. That's pure hyperbole to try to boost your preferred option.

McKenna has done well, but to ask him to come in and turn the current mess at united around is borderline career suicide and an unfair one for us to expect for him to do.
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Not really. 14 of their 25 man squad played in League One with them.
 
ErikElevenHag said:
A team that gets promoted from the championship clearly isn't a league one team. That's pure hyperbole to try to boost your preferred option.

McKenna has done well, but to ask him to come in and turn the current mess at united around is borderline career suicide and an unfair one for us to expect for him to do.
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It’s a team that was relegated to League One, which he then got promoted back-to-back. That doesn’t need sugar-coating, it’s a fantastic achievement and his start this season has been decent too considering the quality available to him. If he came in he would need patience like Ten Hag has had, but for all we know he could do a great job here.
 
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