Kieran McKenna

McKenna is a lifelong United fan as well 🙂

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - One man down, One nil up (U21434)
posted 9 minutes ago
Dont worry mate. Most United fans on here thought he was just an assistant to a PE Teacher who became unemployable.
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I will hold my hand up and admit I did question what Ole, he and Carrick were coaching.

McKenna is clearly doing something right at Ipswich. My cousins who are season ticket holders say they play good football to watch.
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The answer, it seems, is uncoachable players!

Turns out many of the fans were wrong about many of the managers in the past few years.

comment by Jalisco Red - Losing My Reguilón (U4195)
posted 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
McKenna is a lifelong United fan as well 🙂
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Away!

comment by CurrentlyInPoland (U11181)
posted 3 hours, 6 minutes ago
Turns out many of the fans were wrong about many of the managers in the past few years.
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Ole has deffo made fools of us all seeing how his career has progressed since leaving United.

We can thank Mourinho for McKenna 👏

https://m.allfootballapp.com/news/All/Meet-Jose-Mourinho’s-new-right-hand-man-Kieran-McKenna/781478

https://m.allfootballapp.com/news/All/Meet-Jose-Mourinho’s-new-right-hand-man-Kieran-McKenna/781478

Stupid link

Anyway….

‘In 2016 he moved on to Manchester United and spent a couple of years there before being brought fully into the first-team setup by Mourinho.

It was really good," he says. "I've said before it was a privilege for me to come onto his coaching staff, he's such an iconic figure for coaches of my generation.

"It was a relatively short period, but even then it was great to work and learn from him. There was a lot I took from him, and you can see why he's been so successful in his career."

Mourinho is a modern figurehead of McKenna's pathway. An icon of the managerial game who did not have an illustrious playing career on his CV.

McKenna thinks it is becoming a more common and understood pathway into management, and the game in this country has benefited from it.

"It's certainly becoming more prevalent," he says. "I think the coaches that have come before us, Brendan Rodgers, Mourinho, people of that ilk who went into management through different pathways, have laid the groundwork and shown what can be achieved by coaches from different backgrounds.

"I think the game has moved on and everyone understands now that there's different ways to gain experience as a coach or as a manager. I don't think one way or another is an advantage.

"There are obviously big advantages to being say, a Michael Carrick, who has 20 years at the highest level and those experiences to draw upon.

"But the other route which is probably becoming a bit more common, especially in Europe, is for coaches who have started early, or finished playing early for different reasons, accumulating a lot of knowledge and experience from an early age”

In his opinion

@Robb:

The football Ipswich play is so diametrically opposite to Mourinho's that one has to presume that McKenna's just too graceful to openly say that his time under Mourinho served to teach him everything football shouldn't be.

Mind you, I do like the fact that he placed Mourinho up there alongside the footballing icon that is Sweaty Brendan.