Manchester United will likely be hoping to place what has been their worst-ever Premier League marketing campaign behind them on the weekend, once they tackle Manchester Metropolis within the FA Cup remaining.
However even a win over their native rivals at Wembley would solely supply momentary respite from the Crimson Devils’ eighth-place Premier League end that got here with a destructive objective distinction.
The problem of Erik ten Hag’s future within the Previous Trafford dugout stays beneath the microscope forward of what is going to be a summer season of transition on the membership, as Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his Ineos group prepare for his or her first switch window.
The newest identify to emerge as a possible alternative for the under-fire Dutchman is Ipswich City boss Kieran McKenna, who has simply led the Premier League-bound Tractor Boys to successive promotions.
Journalist Alan Nixon claims {that a} transfer for McKenna wouldn’t come low-cost, with the 38-year-old’s ‘switch payment’ now up by 50 per cent to £6million following Ipswich’s promotion-winning marketing campaign.
However he claims that Manchester United may make a ‘severe bid’ to carry again their former U18s coach within the face of competitors from Brighton & Hove Albion.
The Seagulls are looking out for a brand new coach after asserting Roberto de Zerbi’s exit on the weekend. Nixon warns that Brighton could have ‘swoop quick’ if they’re to carry McKenna to the south coast.
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McKenna spent two seasons because the Manchester United U18s coach earlier than being promoted to the first-team set-up previous to the 2018/19 season.
The previous Spurs prospect was appointed Ipswich boss in December 2021 and would go on to win promotion from League One in his first full season in senior administration, earlier than this 12 months’s second-place end noticed City safe back-to-back promotions.
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