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Yeah I could see that and Bournemouth disappearing.

 

Not much chance of that if Bournemouth keep spending what they have given Eddie Howe in the Premier League :lol:

 

Bournemouth spend midtable money even a half decent manager will keep them midtable with the money they spent.

 

We’ve spent £80m more the last 5 years.

 

Why you adding what McLaren spent? ???

 

Talking Rafa vs Eddie Howe here.

 

Rafa has been stripped of £160million worth of players since he joined while Eddie Howe has been stripped of just £40million and has spent over £100million net more than Rafa Benitez.

 

Eddie Howe isn’t doing some Premier League miracle with a League 2 squad and some tiny budget like people still think :lol:

 

How many more OVER £20million buys does Eddie Howe need to do for people to realise he isn’t working with a League 2 squad in the Premier League :mackems:

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Yeah I could see that and Bournemouth disappearing.

 

Not much chance of that if Bournemouth keep spending what they have given Eddie Howe in the Premier League :lol:

 

Bournemouth spend midtable money even a half decent manager will keep them midtable with the money they spent.

 

Ake £20million+ defender he bought.

Lerma £20million+ midfielder he bought.

Solanke £20million+ striker he bought.

 

Honestly where do people get this picture that Eddie Howe is working with some League 2 squad with the worst budget in the world? :mackems:

 

He isn’t doing some Premier League miracle every season spending that much.

I really don't get your weird hatred of Eddie Howe :lol:

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Howe has done an amazing job at Bournemouth and is the best obvious non top manager in the PL IMO. Saying he’s spent a lot of money is stupid because he hasnt really and what he has spent he’s achieved great things with. He’s at the right club mind, if he were to manage us for example, I think the job would overwhelm him. He’d still do a far better job at a club like ours than the likes of Pardew, McClaren and Big Sam ever could as we saw first hand when they were here.

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Yeah I could see that and Bournemouth disappearing.

 

Not much chance of that if Bournemouth keep spending what they have given Eddie Howe in the Premier League :lol:

 

Bournemouth spend midtable money even a half decent manager will keep them midtable with the money they spent.

 

We’ve spent £80m more the last 5 years.

 

Why you adding what McLaren spent? ???

 

Talking Rafa vs Eddie Howe here.

 

Rafa has been stripped of £160million worth of players since he joined while Eddie Howe has been stripped of just £40million and has spent over £100million net more than Rafa Benitez.

 

Eddie Howe isn’t doing some Premier League miracle with a League 2 squad and some tiny budget like people still think :lol:

 

Because Bournemouth were starting as nothing, we ought to have been a mid-table Premier League side when he came up (plus the transfer table I use is the 5 year one). A typical Bournemouth side that first season was Boruc; Francis, Daniels, Cook, Smith; Ritchie, Arter, Gosling, Pugh, Stanislas; King...and they never looked like going down.

 

He had a few poor windows but it was always going to be difficult to attract good players but he's slowly improved them into a comfortable mid-table side. They've only spent £12m more than Brighton and they've had 2 extra years in the top flight, less than the likes of Watford, Leicester, West Ham, Wolves and even ourselves. He's done class, man.

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Yeah I could see that and Bournemouth disappearing.

 

Not much chance of that if Bournemouth keep spending what they have given Eddie Howe in the Premier League :lol:

 

Bournemouth spend midtable money even a half decent manager will keep them midtable with the money they spent.

 

Ake £20million+ defender he bought.

Lerma £20million+ midfielder he bought.

Solanke £20million+ striker he bought.

 

Honestly where do people get this picture that Eddie Howe is working with some League 2 squad with the worst budget in the world? :mackems:

 

He isn’t doing some Premier League miracle every season spending that much.

I really don't get your weird hatred of Eddie Howe :lol:

 

He did wonders in the lower leagues but is doing just a decent job in the Premier League considering how many £20million+ players he has bought and how much he has spent £170million :snod:

 

Just not doing the Premier League miracle that people make out is my point :lol:

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Bloody hell just saw that Puel has been sacked, listening to him speak post match I do think his lack of personaity hasn’t helped him mind, if he had a big personality I think he’d be able to see out a run of poor results.

 

Leicester actually play good football and have had some very notable results user him, but Vardy especially doesn’t suit their possession game and I don’t think their fans are convinced by the style of play under Puel.

 

He’s a good manager IMO, but again, seems to lack a steely personality, he seems too nice and relaxed and Leicester play like that in many ways.

 

If they keep chopping and changing their managers after a few bad results it will catch up with them. I think Rafa would be a great appointment for them and would make them one of the best of the rest. I like the look of Barnes and thought bringing him off yesterday was the wrong decision as he was not only their best player, but most likely to create or score.

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Yeah I could see that and Bournemouth disappearing.

 

Not much chance of that if Bournemouth keep spending what they have given Eddie Howe in the Premier League :lol:

 

Bournemouth spend midtable money even a half decent manager will keep them midtable with the money they spent.

 

Ake £20million+ defender he bought.

Lerma £20million+ midfielder he bought.

Solanke £20million+ striker he bought.

 

Honestly where do people get this picture that Eddie Howe is working with some League 2 squad with the worst budget in the world? :mackems:

 

He isn’t doing some Premier League miracle every season spending that much.

I really don't get your weird hatred of Eddie Howe :lol:

 

He is doing a decent job just not the Premier League miracle people make out is my point :lol:

 

Sorry, but what he’s done at Bournemouth is kind of a miracle. Highlighting him spending 20m plus each on a few players to try and downplay what he’s done is a weak argument because the ammount he has spent and the players he has bought in are not deciding factors behind their rise and success, Howe is.

 

Pointing to conceding a high number of goals or losing streaks shouldn’t be used to demean what he’s achieved and how good a job he’s done either.

 

He’s built Bournemouth into a very competitive mid-table PL footballing side with a team packed with a nice blend of youngsters and unknown players capable of producing a lot more in ways other clubs big and small have struggled to achieve spending similar and even more.

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Bloody hell just saw that Puel has been sacked, listening to him speak post match I do think his lack of personaity hasn’t helped him mind, if he had a big personality I think he’d be able to see out a run of poor results.

 

Leicester actually play good football and have had some very notable results user him, but Vardy especially doesn’t suit their possession game and I don’t think their fans are convinced by the style of play under Puel.

 

He’s a good manager IMO, but again, seems to lack a steely personality, he seems too nice and relaxed and Leicester play like that in many ways.

 

If they keep chopping and changing their managers after a few bad results it will catch up with them. I think Rafa would be a great appointment for them and would make them one of the best of the rest. I like the look of Barnes and thought bringing him off yesterday was the wrong decision as he was not only their best player, but most likely to create or score.

I agree with you having no personality.

However Rafa would be a bad appointment for them. He doesn’t play the way the Leicester fans seem to want to play.

They do need to calm down with sacking managers though. Since their miracle title win all they have really needed was stability, and the same this season after what’s happened, they just are not doing that though, and like others have said it will catch up with them. They can’t expect to be the best of the rest or challenge to get back into the top 6 by swapping managers all the time and trying to change their style of play over and over.

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Rafa doesn't play the way we stereotypically want either but we love him.

 

Circumstances - after being shit for so long. Different when you are coming down the other way having recently won the title.

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Rafa doesn't play the way we stereotypically want either but we love him.

 

Circumstances - after being shit for so long. Different when you are coming down the other way having recently won the title.

 

I think it's more a personality thing with Puel rather than style of play. They'd love Rafa like we did.

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Bloody hell just saw that Puel has been sacked, listening to him speak post match I do think his lack of personaity hasn’t helped him mind, if he had a big personality I think he’d be able to see out a run of poor results.

 

Leicester actually play good football and have had some very notable results user him, but Vardy especially doesn’t suit their possession game and I don’t think their fans are convinced by the style of play under Puel.

 

He’s a good manager IMO, but again, seems to lack a steely personality, he seems too nice and relaxed and Leicester play like that in many ways.

 

If they keep chopping and changing their managers after a few bad results it will catch up with them. I think Rafa would be a great appointment for them and would make them one of the best of the rest. I like the look of Barnes and thought bringing him off yesterday was the wrong decision as he was not only their best player, but most likely to create or score.

I agree with you having no personality.

However Rafa would be a bad appointment for them. He doesn’t play the way the Leicester fans seem to want to play.

They do need to calm down with sacking managers though. Since their miracle title win all they have really needed was stability, and the same this season after what’s happened, they just are not doing that though, and like others have said it will catch up with them. They can’t expect to be the best of the rest or challenge to get back into the top 6 by swapping managers all the time and trying to change their style of play over and over.

 

I work a lot in Leicester (although I haven’t for a while) and I don’t think we of all people never mind anyone else should rush to a judgement as to what type of football Leicester City fans expect or would be happy or unhappy with.

 

From what I gather it’s never so much been about their style of play or even their results under Puel, but the lack of a plan B and a variation in his tactics.

 

The fact his style and tactics doesn’t suit Vardy’s own game at all on top of all that, a player fans rightly recognise as the main man for them and whose own game and goals have been so important to their success, is an issue as well.

 

An issue Puel hasn’t shown to have the kind of. strength of character or authoritive personality to deal with in a way that fans and player would accept or be happy with if dropped or asked to do a certain job or play a certain role.

 

I think Rafa has the strength of character and personality based not only on his CV, but also his communication skills, that both fans and players would concede authority to and accept his style or tactics even if they weren’t exactly happy with them especially if it gets them points.

 

I don’t like our football under Rafa, but I fully understand why we play the way we do and his tactics, because it works for us and another way of playing or different tactics wouldn’t

 

The beauty with Rafa though, is he has a plan B even with us and how he sets a team up to play and the tactics he uses are not something Rafa is wedded to and only to. If he had that Leicester team here, would we still play the same way we do right now?

 

No we wouldn’t, and Rafa doesn’t want us to play like we do all the time either, but that will always be dictated by the quality of players and the type of quality players he has to work with, something Lecister has more of in quality and type of player.

 

I think he’d be a great appointment for Leicester and would do great things there, things that would please Leicester fans in ways that would make them love Rafa like we do as a manager and person irrespective of how attractive the football is.

 

Unless they really have been spoilt by winning the title wth delusions of grandeur and high expectations where they would consider someone like Rafa beneath them.

 

Ive not once sensed that from their fanbase in person, at all. I think they’d love Rafa who inlike Puel, commands almost unconditional respect as a coach and as a personality that fans and players automatically respond to much more than how a Rafa team plays and whatever tactics he uses.

 

Rafa could do better, but I’m not so sure they could. With their squad, funds and ambitions, he would bring sustained success with consistently high league finishes, European football and silverware.

 

Who wouldn’t want that....

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Over to you Mike

 

Bizarrely this might work in our favour. If Rafa is courted by the likes of Leicester - and others - then it might, just might, make the FCB wake up and do something to not lose him. Like give him total say, running, and budgets to make this club great again. And exponentially increase the value of the club. Or is that way too logical???

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