I was United's secret coaching staff weapon... now I might become their manager

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What's it like to work with Kieran McKenna? The MEN interviewed two people who know the exciting coach to find out.

They entered the dressing room in high spirits and began to hit the showers, but a passionate Kieran McKenna was trailing behind one player and following into the inner sanctum.

"Kieran was compelled to tell the player that information and it could have probably waited, but he went clothed into the shower to tell him how to improve next time. To be fair, the players never told him to naff off, they always thought it was really helpful and were thankful." "To see them doing so well, it makes you very proud, seeing them become successful coaches and having an impact on the game. I’ve been coaching for 30 years and even at the time, you could see Kieran's talent and with opportunity, you could see he would go far. He stood out."

Following Mourinho's departure, he was retained by Solskjaer and also worked with interim manager Ralf Rangnick before accepting his first job in management with Ipswich. "He was a student of the game, very invested in understanding it and tactical ways of playing," Cushion adds. "He’d develop strategies and think how to counter and put team shapes together.

"You can imagine some would tell you to go away – they didn’t with Kieran. He had the whole package, his interpersonal skills, his relationship with the players, thinking about systems. You could he would be successful. I’m just pleased he’s had the opportunities and he's grabbed them with both hands.""He always had attention to detail and we did a lot of tactical work at the university.

"Kirean had reflective conversations about his coaching and was genuinely always interested in what he was like as a coach, trying to evolve and study how to get better." "When were in the second team, we played the first team in a friendly and absolutely battered them. They couldn’t get the ball of us because Kieran’s coaching was just so good.

"I’d been at professional clubs as a kid, being coached by good coaches all the way through, but Kieran was just different," Fallon says. "He’d pick up little things and what he was particularly good at was focusing on individuals and improving you.

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