The Seagulls are searching for a new manager this summer and the Northern Irishman's name features prominently on their listhas been told that news did not come as a surprise to many inside the club, the Italian having clashed with owner Tony Bloom over the club’s recruitment policy.
De Zerbi wanted to move the dial in the summer to more established players while Bloom is committed to the model that has turned Brighton from a Championship club into a regular in the upper echelons of In retrospect there was only ever going to be one winner and it has been an open secret in football circles that De Zerbi was open to new opportunities, having been heavily linked with theThe Seagulls carry out regular, rolling checks on possible managerial appointments and McKenna is understood to figure highly on the metrics they track. He achieved promotion to the Premier League on a budget outside the top 10 in the division.
While Ipswich will no doubt be desperate to keep hold of the 37-year-old, the job will surely appeal to McKennain the game for stability and being a platform for managers onto bigger things. The club are also one of the few able to invest heavily in the summer transfer window if they wish, having sold Alexis Mac Allister and Moises Caicedo for big money last summer.
He is a superb, methodical coach and an expert man manager and Brighton are not the only club in the Premier League who believe he has the potential to step into a top job. McKenna has also been linked with