Remind me...but isn't he under contract here ?....at ITFC...?

...if so then we need to tell these headcase clubs where to go.

Prebbs007. Do get where your coming from. But if you were working somewhere and another company came along and offered you a better deal, are you saying you'd turn it down? End of the day, in general, football management is just a job. Unlike us fans, they don't have the connection to the club. So if something else comes along which they believe will advance their career, they'll likely take it. And can we really blame them?

To be honest if I was being unbiased, I would advise McKenna to take the Chelsea job. He will not be fazed by Chelsea being a bit of a basket case, I am not a Chelsea supporter either, his quiet steely immensely focussed disposition would make him ideally suited to this job. Pochettino was doing a great job at Chelsea and largely unappreciated until the end of the season, but Potch with his background would have definitely come with a big name tag expecting more respect than he was given. Chelsea need to sell players for FFP, but when you analyse the fact for the second half of the season 19 games Chelsea sit 4th in the form table and more lately in the last 12 moved up to 3rd. This was done with lots of injuries but an exciting young team. Potch has left a great squad for someone like McKenna to add the finishing touches withvery few prima donnas around, I can see Chelsea being top 3 under McKenna next season and only getting better. For me Man Utd is a far more difficult challenge and as I have said Potch is a shoe in for that if it becomes available.

I don’t want him to go but it is not inconceivable that this time next year Chelsea could be a very good bet for Premier League Champions!!! So for me this looks a much better deal than Brighton or Man U at this point in his career.

Whilst we may all feel like Liverpool fans loosing Klopp, who had ever heard of his replacement Arnie Slot? That may seem underwhelming for Liverpool fans but Liverpool are in a much better place now than before the Klopp era and his legacy will be a well oiled structure that minimises the impact of his loss. Much the same for us if we lose Kieron.

I would of course take Graham Potter in a heartbeat but if his demands were to great for the Ajax job then I can’t see him coming to Portman Road.

Carrick still my first choice by a long stretch but some decent names out there, but could be someone out of left field like a Cleverly but he has just been given the job permanently at Watford so I wouldn’t expect him but he organised them pretty impressively towards the tail end of the season. Manning also probably too soon to move from Bristol.

This does remind me when we got promoted to the top flight under Bill McGarry, my first season watching town. McGarry was a great manager and disciplinarian, we were all looking forward to the new season in the top flight and Wolves cam in for him and nicked him!!! Fulham had sacked a young manager who had struggled a bit one Robert Robson and the rest is history!!!

Kompany to Bayern proves he has absolutely nothing to lose by staying loyal to this fairytale journey we have all been on since he arrived. I would be really disappointed in him if he bailed at this point.

If there are any OpenReach engineers here, feel free to disconnect every phone line and mobile mast around the Portman Road area.

Don't deliver any printer toner.

Whatever it takes to stop him leaving.

Rob Edwards is his replacement

Sick of it all now , phil you just doing your job , as are talksport etc but enough is enough if yourgoing kieran go with our blessing , 100 grand aweek , no question , but its ruining the happiest time in my life , your comments showed no commitment and why should it , your legend status will always be here , just go and show the world how lucky we were to have you

Dissboy - totally agree with your post on the 1st page...something needs to be sorted pronto! if he leaves that's the Premier League in a nutshell.

our future looks decent whatever goes our way!!

Vincent Kompany to Bayern Munich!?!...now that IS crackers! what's he done to deserve that?

Joyous blue he will have no legend status in my view, he would be a hall of famer, but legend? No way!

Only last week, such was my belief in KM and the project he is in the middle of and his love of Ipswich I was prepared to bet a scum fan a grand he was going nowhere atm, now I wouldn’t bet a penny!

Legend? Don’t make me laugh, legends get statues and to think only recently it was thought he could become worthy of one.

Kind of feels if he stays now it was because the offer wasn’t good enough, I wanted him to show the same class as Kompany, his loyalty hasn’t put his career out of joint!

Carrick no.
This is the first time in the new era ITFC have made a mistake - make an announcement whatever the content is. We are all owed that, especially Season ticket holders.
Club statement immediately due.

I'll be devastated if he leaves but lets try and look on the bright side -
1) He'd have left anyway if we hadn't been promoted so at least he got us up before leaving.
2) This is happening early in the summer rather than just before the season starts which would have been even tougher to deal with.
3) Mark Ashton is very astute - he'll have plans A, B and C already.
Is it too late to cancel the statue by the way - I guess we'll lose our deposit?

Unsettling for everyone…..Current players, potential new players, supporters etc…..And needs resolving ASAP

I hope he stays. If he does go then I feel the last 2.5 years have served us both well. We have given Kieran the time and freedom to demonstrate his ability. In return he has got a mid table league 1 team to the premiership on a limited budget. We are now in the premier league. Ipswich is now a club, due to this success and the support of the ownership and management, an attractive proposition for managers.
So I hope Kieran stays but if he does leave I wish him well in the future and thank you for getting us to the premiership

The Club will no doubt make an announcement after they have had talks.
They can hardly say anything before hand so we have to trust their process and respect K McK.

Personally I think he will stay, he had a plan and he is no doubt on schedule.

I really hope he stays and makes good the commitment shown previously to the project and expressing his love for the club so if he leaves then it will leave a slightly sour taste for me at least. Great job so far but it has only just begun. I cant believe, if the rumours are true, that a 5m a year contract at Town is not enough to live on. Just think what possibilities could open up for him if he sees this through, and is successful in establishing us as a Prem club. There would be lots more doors open that just Chelski and Manure.

It’s time to be calm and patience and not come out with any knee jerk pony.
McK signed a new contract with us last season for what? It was to get us up to the prem and the fact he achieved that quicker than anyone could have imagined, then its job done.
Whether he stays or goes he’ll be a legend in Suffolk and a massive part of our history, whatever the more negative and unappreciative posters on here think!
The aim next year will be survival nothing else, and that won’t be as difficult as what we achieved last season.

He is still behind Burley in the legend stakes and will stay there unless he gives us a minimum of one season in the prem

If he was staying he would have said so , but clearly has not .
He is leaving for sure , we will only see him this season in the away dug out .

I really do hope he will stay. If not there are plenty of excellent, relatively young managers around. Gone are the days of us being linked with every OAP manager looking to revive a long-dead career. As for player recruitment, surely that depends on the style of play our head coach believes in, whoever that may be.

Chelsea have had, what is it, 6 managers in 2 years? Ipswich have the potential to become bigger than Brighton, and Man United would surely look for a big manager with very high level experience at this point, although I do get Len's point though. I think agents and media are trying their best to drive a narrative here and, from what Mark Ashton has told us so many times ... ignore the rumour mill, nothing is factual until Ipswich announce it. If he is going, we can be sure that MA will be absolutely ahead of this and doing the best for the club. In Mark we trust :)

... and, by the way, if Kieran, via his agent, is negotiating a new deal with Ipswich, he's very unlikely to come out and say he's going nowhere, that would weaken hi position. I sure we've all done it, go to the boss with an offer of another job elswhere on bigger money and, surprise surprise, you get asked how much do you need to stay? I think the whole thing is cat and mouse and the dust will settle in a few weeks. I'm going top [put my neck on the block and say 100% Kieran stays.

I just hope Kieran hasn't been reading any of the total cr@p that's been posted on here & the "forum" over the last few days.

Agree lightingboy. Live for the moment and enjoy the back to back promotions, cause that will probably never happen again. Mind you, who would have thought we’d be in premiership 3 years ago lol