| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United 12:24 - Sep 23 with 4446 views | ITFC_Essex |
According to a few Manchester United facebook pages our fans are reacting to. Wouldn't surprise me if they were already holding talks about Carrick, but that Manchester United side, bar a couple of stars, isn't very good and a change of manager won't do much for them. It's McKenna's dream job, so nothing against him taking it, and if anything by leaving us early we have actually been able to get our house in order rather than scraping around in the season trying to find a boss.
It's interesting that our support is excited about the £8mil compensation though, even though that sort of money in 2026 gets you a George Hirst. Not really the sort of money worth losing your first class manager over, which begs the question, why are managerial compensations so low compared to fees these days? They don't seem to have caught up with the market. |  |
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| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 17:50 - Sep 23 with 671 views | SmithersJones |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 12:44 - Sep 23 by bsw72 |
It potentially opens up option for a £35M player and wages in Jan on a 5 year contract with low impact on SCR . . . |
Only for the first year. We’d be on the hook for £7m per year for the following four years. |  | | |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 18:16 - Sep 23 with 628 views | armchaircritic59 |
If players and managers have given good service here, for however long, I will always wish them well in their next endeavors. It's a fact that Football is a transitory occupation for both, and even for owners too. It's the way it is, no need for unpleasantness when it happens. |  | | |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 18:31 - Sep 23 with 617 views | carlo88 |
I can see him rocking up to somewhere like Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship next season, or maybe even this one. Big club that's reached its rock bottom. |  | | |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 19:13 - Sep 23 with 551 views | Len_Brennan |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 13:51 - Sep 23 by J2BLUE |
McKenna who showed nothing but class every time he spoke here has agreed to take over Man U while one of his best friends is currently in the job?
Holding talks with them while stabbing his friend in the back?
Not at all in line with his character. |
This post says it all & should end all other speculation & debate over such an outcome. | |
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| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 20:49 - Sep 23 with 479 views | bsw72 |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 17:50 - Sep 23 by SmithersJones |
Only for the first year. We’d be on the hook for £7m per year for the following four years. |
Obviously, but that is then built into the SCR planning in those years - right now an option to buy more this season is the critical need to avoid relegation which considering what we have spent cannot be ignored.
Technically it would likely only be 3.5m in this years books most likely then rest split based on contract term. |  | | |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 20:53 - Sep 23 with 468 views | vapour_trail |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 18:31 - Sep 23 by carlo88 |
I can see him rocking up to somewhere like Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship next season, or maybe even this one. Big club that's reached its rock bottom. |
I’d go for either Fulham, palace or Bournemouth as his next destination. |  |
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| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 21:13 - Sep 23 with 446 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 17:50 - Sep 23 by SmithersJones |
Only for the first year. We’d be on the hook for £7m per year for the following four years. |
And those additional years are offset by the revenue in those years. This is the entire point of amortisation vs outright annual costs. One has a much lower impact in the current year’s costs, and benefits from future revenues. | | | |
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| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 03:19 - Sep 24 with 324 views | tetchris |
He wont get that job. When he was a coach there previously under Mourinho/OGS, there were alleged rumours the senior pros didn’t enjoy his training sessions and didn’t buy into his philosophy. Training sessions weren’t popular and claimed to be to schoolboy level or similar. He will probably end up replacing O’Neil at Celtic. McK has been linked with many PL jobs but has never been offered any of those jobs or turned down any other PL managers jobs that we are aware of. Credit where credits due but it would be hard for McK to replicate the success that he had at town elsewhere. He’s a good coach/manager but I don’t see him managing a top six side at any point. I think a lot of PL club owners obviously feel the same otherwise he would have left ages ago! | | | |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 06:30 - Sep 24 with 283 views | MK1 |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 12:49 - Sep 23 by SaleAway |
Talking of the problem lying elsewhere... I was thinking the other day about Utd's recruitment, and over the last 10 years, I was trying to think of anyone that had left Utd and gone on to have a more successful career. The obvious one is Scott McTominay, but of course, he'd been at the club since he was 5, so his "recruitment" pre-dates the Utd banter years...
I really struggled to think of anyone.... perhaps this is more the issue, that over the last 10 years, they really really haven't bought well... |
I read somewhere the other day that Man Utd haven't made a profit on a player they brought for years. Ronaldo to Real was the last one. They have spent close to a billion in that time. Staggering. |  |
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| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 06:46 - Sep 24 with 269 views | LegendofthePhoenix |
Imho the biggest issue Kieran has is that his attention to the smallest details required him to be his own worst enemy, and hence working, reportedly, 100 hour weeks. That just isn't sustainable. It was his 1st managerial gig, and if true that he was working those sort of hours, then he needs to use this year to bolster the coaching team around him. He needs to have coaches he trusts as much as he trusts himself, so he can manage and guide them all, rather than doing every bit of analysis and coaching himself - in other words, delegation.
Lots of young managers in every sector go through this learning curve, and to be truly successful as a manager on a bigger stage, you have to learn how to delegate and set the culture, the strategy, standards and principles, and trust your team to carry them out. |  |
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| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 07:56 - Sep 24 with 224 views | RetroBlue |
I wish him all the best in whatever his next job is. But I do fear his mental health / survival if he is a manager at another PL Club. I think His personality trait lends itself to burn out again. |  |
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| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 08:27 - Sep 24 with 198 views | Billywitch |
He is nowhere near ready for MUFC, mentally if nothing else. If ITFC put too much on his shoulders that place would be 10 times worse | | | |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 09:42 - Sep 24 with 146 views | ITFC_Essex |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 13:09 - Sep 23 by Churchman |
Agree entirely. The trouble is, it’s his and many others dream job. If he gets the chance, he has to take it.
Anyway, up to him. If he gets the job or any other, good luck to him. |
He deserves a crack at it, it's worth remembering that Paul Cook with a similar budget and a chunk of the same players we ended up in the Premier League with, had us mid-table in League One.
McKenna took the core of those players in Walton, Burgess, Edmundson, Woolfenden, Burns, Morsy, and Chaplin and had them play in the Premier League. [Post edited 24 Sep 9:43]
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| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 10:53 - Sep 24 with 104 views | EdwardStone |
| McKenna fully recovered and ready to take over Manchester United on 06:46 - Sep 24 by LegendofthePhoenix |
Imho the biggest issue Kieran has is that his attention to the smallest details required him to be his own worst enemy, and hence working, reportedly, 100 hour weeks. That just isn't sustainable. It was his 1st managerial gig, and if true that he was working those sort of hours, then he needs to use this year to bolster the coaching team around him. He needs to have coaches he trusts as much as he trusts himself, so he can manage and guide them all, rather than doing every bit of analysis and coaching himself - in other words, delegation.
Lots of young managers in every sector go through this learning curve, and to be truly successful as a manager on a bigger stage, you have to learn how to delegate and set the culture, the strategy, standards and principles, and trust your team to carry them out. |
I was thinking this too
Stressing yourself into an early grave about the position of water bottles on the training ground is madness
He needs to focus on the clever stuff and build a team of highly capable subordinates who can sweat the small stuff on his behalf and to his very high standards
It is significant that many successful managers are usually the dominant one of a double-act [Post edited 24 Sep 10:57]
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