Agreed. I'd give him a long contract and allow him to build a footballing identity, a way of playing that we can feed to the younger age groups too. He took a team of rejects and glorified plumbers through the Football League...and did so in a style that is not only pleasing to watch, but is also effective. If it has to be an English manager then I personally can't see past Howe. Everyone else is an anachronistic footballing relic.
Basically aye. Although I'd give it to Wenger ahead of Howe straight away.
I'm not even 100% convinced of Howe like, what he's done with Bournemouth is great, they play decent football and he's still young. But he's obviously not on the same level as the top managers. But then you'd have said the same about Low a decade ago.
It's all about the infrastructure to support him, something we said we were sorting out when we hired Hodgson and obviously never did.