Tag: Kieran

Chelsea manager: Kieran McKenna, Enzo Maresca & Thomas Frank on shortlist
23 May 2024 Off

Chelsea manager: Kieran McKenna, Enzo Maresca & Thomas Frank on shortlist

By Total Football News

Chelsea have drawn up an early shortlist of managerial options, which includes Ipswich Town’s Kieran McKenna, Leicester City’s Enzo Maresca and Brentford’s Thomas Frank.

The Blues are in search of a replacement for Mauricio Pochettino after he left the club by mutual consent on Tuesday.

Contact has been made with McKenna, 38 – who won promotion from the Championship with Ipswich Town this season – but there is competition from

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Kieran McKenna: Ipswich manager likely to reject new deal
22 May 2024 Off

Kieran McKenna: Ipswich manager likely to reject new deal

By Total Football News

Ipswich manager Kieran McKenna is likely to reject any new deal amid interest from Chelsea and Brighton.

The 38-year-old is also believed to be under consideration by Manchester United if they decide to make a change with Erik ten Hag’s future in doubt.

McKenna – who is contracted to Ipswich until 2027 – is ambitious and is understood to be keen to take the next step in his career.

Talks

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Kieran McKenna guides Ipswich Town back to ‘promised land’
5 May 2024 0

Kieran McKenna guides Ipswich Town back to ‘promised land’

By Total Football News

To avoid the problems Luton, Sheffield United and Burnley have experienced in the Premier League following promotion last season, McKenna may need to improve the squad by more than the 20% figure Mills suggested last summer.

“When you go into the best league in the world, there will be changes,” former Ipswich, Liverpool and Scotland midfielder John Wark told BBC Radio Suffolk.

Town should be in a healthier state financially

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Kieran McKenna: Championship manager of season says Ipswich will ‘give it everything’
15 April 2024 0

Kieran McKenna: Championship manager of season says Ipswich will ‘give it everything’

By Total Football News
Ipswich's Kieran McKenna with his Championship manager of the season award
Ipswich’s Kieran McKenna is Championship manager of the season

Kieran McKenna says Ipswich will “give it everything” in their bid to clinch promotion after he was named Championship manager of the season.

Town are one point clear at the top of the table with three games left as they look to return to the Premier League for the first time since 2002.

Although they drew with Middlesbrough in their last

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EFL Awards: Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna and Leeds winger Crysencio Summerville win Championship prizes
14 April 2024 0

EFL Awards: Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna and Leeds winger Crysencio Summerville win Championship prizes

By Total Football News
Crysencio Summerville with his Championship player of the season trophy
Crysencio Summerville was named Championship player of the season at the EFL Awards in London

Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna and Leeds winger Crysencio Summerville have been named Championship manager and player of the year.

Summerville has scored 17 league goals and registered eight assists for Leeds, who are just one point below the Foxes.

Portsmouth’s John Mousinho was named League One manager of the year at Sunday’s event in London.

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EFL manager of the season: Kieran McKenna, Daniel Farke and Liam Rosenior nominated
3 April 2024 0

EFL manager of the season: Kieran McKenna, Daniel Farke and Liam Rosenior nominated

By Total Football News
Kieran McKenna, Daniel Farke and Liam Rosenior
Kieran McKenna (left), Daniel Farke (middle) and Liam Rosenior are the three nominees for the Championship’s manager of the season

Ipswich Town boss Kieran McKenna, Leeds United manager Daniel Farke and Hull City boss Liam Rosenior have been nominated for the Championship manager of the season at the EFL awards.

Ipswich are top of the table, while Leeds are second and Hull 10th.

Leeds’ Crysencio Summerville, Leicester’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and

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