4 hours ago Ipswich Town person named erstwhile Wolves and Bournemouth brag Gary O'Neil arsenic their caller manager.
The 43-year-old replaces Kieran McKenna, who stepped down from the Portman Road post earlier this month.
O'Neil has signed a three-year woody with Ipswich aft leaving Strasbourg, wherever helium has been successful complaint since January.
He guided the French broadside to eighth spot successful Ligue 1 past play and reached the Europa Conference League semi-finals, wherever they were beaten by Rayo Vallecano successful their archetypal last-four quality successful a European competition.
"It is an honour to beryllium appointed manager of this large shot club," said O'Neil, who volition beryllium joined by coaches Tim Jenkins and Neil Critchley aft moving with them successful France.
"I person followed the advancement the nine has made implicit the past fewer years closely, and to present person the accidental to pb Ipswich Town successful the Premier League is thing I americium hugely excited by.
"There is simply a beardown imaginativeness and ambition astatine this nine and I americium afloat alert of the work that brings, fixed however overmuch it means to its supporters and to the assemblage of Ipswich and Suffolk.
"We each cognize the situation up arsenic we hole for the play unneurotic and I'm excited to conscionable everyone and get to work."
Former Manchester United brag Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had besides been successful the moving for the Ipswich job.
BBC Sport reported Ipswich's involvement successful O'Neil earlier this month and helium has agelong been admired by the club's hierarchy.
Former midfielder O'Neil played astatine Bristol City erstwhile Ipswich main enforcement Mark Ashton held the aforesaid relation astatine Ashton Gate.
Strasbourg had initially been assured of keeping him pursuing his January arrival, but this assignment marks O'Neil's instrumentality to the Premier League - having near Wolves successful December 2024.
McKenna, 40, stepped down contempt starring Ipswich backmost to the apical formation by finishing 2nd successful the Championship past season.
He took complaint of the Tractor Boys successful 2021 and led them to 3 promotions successful the past 4 seasons, 2 of which person taken the nine into the Premier League.
McKenna was linked with the Fulham occupation aft Marco Silva's departure, but discontinue Town to instrumentality a interruption from the crippled and walk much clip with his family.
Ipswich unfastened their Premier League run astatine location to Sunderland connected 22 August.
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