Kieran McKenna is a manager that the club like and are interested in, the Daily Echo understands, but he is not the only man in the frame.
The club has a list of candidates but the search has ramped up and will intensify in the weeks to come.
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The Echo understands that the current Ipswich boss is admired by Bournemouth, and he has done a stellar job with the Suffolk club.
But McKenna, who took Ipswich from League One to the Premier League in successive seasons, will be eyeing up a return to the top flight this term, with the Tractor Boys currently in the automatic promotion spots.
Kieran McKenna. (Image: Richard Crease)
The Ipswich boss also has a lot of control over the football operations at the club, which would need negotiation as that has not been the case for Iraola at Cherries, and McKenna is on a deal that runs to 2028.
Marco Rose is also reportedly a target, with the German currently out of work having most recently managed RB Leipzig.
Rose has managed RB Salzburg, where he did not lose a home game and reached the Europa League quarterfinals and Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he reached the knockout stage of the Champions League.
He then led Borussia Dortmund to a second placed finish in the Bundesliga in his sole season at the club, before moving to Leipzig, where he won the DFB-Pokal.
He was sacked there in March of 2025.