Eddie Howe

[elbee909]

If anyone can copy paste the Telegraph article for us overseas peeps, would be appreciated. I'm not giving that Tory rag any payment details!

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1 minute ago, elbee909 said:

If anyone can copy paste the Telegraph article for us overseas peeps, would be appreciated. I'm not giving that Tory rag any payment details!

It is not a perfect metric but the adage that you can best measure a manager’s worth by the state of a club at the beginning and end of their tenure remains as reliable as any.

And when Eddie Howe became Bournemouth manager in January 2009, they were 23rd in League Two, 10 points adrift of safety and fighting not just for their Football League survival but their very existence as a club.

When he left 11 years later, Bournemouth were exiting the Premier League following five straight seasons in the top-flight, three promotions and easily the greatest era in the club’s history.

Yes, the fairy tale did not have the ending he wanted, but the bottom line is that Newcastle United would be getting a 43-year-old manager of vast, if often understated, substance.

His use of the 15 months since leaving Bournemouth has been instructive.

There have been no media interviews. No self-promotion. No getting his name linked with any enticing vacancy.

Howe has instead utilised his first sustained break from playing or managing for a combination of family time – his eldest boys Harry and Rocky are budding footballers – and the chance to prepare for his managerial return. This has meant looking back as well as forward.

And so Howe has spent a sizable part of the past year reflecting on what he did right and what he did wrong at Bournemouth, particularly in that painful final season. That has meant re-watching their matches and reassessing the training sessions, of which all were carefully logged, to better understand how his players reacted to what he had been trying to achieve.

Howe has his own football philosophy document and, in also watching plenty of football, often live with his two boys, he has been constantly updating his own attacking vision for the game.

He has taken time to visit other clubs and understand how they work, notably Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid. The Argentine coach has proved himself one of the masters of adaptation, taking on the big two in Spain with a distinctive style of play that has yielded great success, including two league titles. Howe also visited another Madrid club, Rayo Vallecano, who were promoted last season to La Liga. At Vallecano he has encountered a different kind of coach, albeit one whose journey is similar to his own.

When Howe left Bournemouth they were exiting the Premier League following five straight seasons in the top flight CREDIT: PA

Andoni Iraola, 39, briefly a Spain international in his playing days, not only has got Vallecano promoted from the second tier but the club, who have spent more time out of the first tier over their history, are currently sixth in Liga – vastly outperforming their budget.

Two days were also spent at Liverpool including a meeting with the architect of the club’s golden recruitment era, technical director Michael Edwards. Howe recognises that recruitment will be critical for Newcastle, especially when the club try to navigate this next January transfer window, and he will also know that it was an area which faltered to some extent towards the end of his Bournemouth tenure.

At Liverpool he also met Alex Inglethorpe, the club’s academy director. He wanted to understand how the club have overhauled their structure over the past decade to a level that is allowing them to overcome the financial disadvantages and compete so consistently with Manchester City.

He has already spent long hours assessing the Newcastle players and there would be immediate familiar faces in Callum Wilson, Ryan Fraser and Matt Ritchie, three players whose careers he has already influenced hugely.

There would be risks, of course, on all sides. Howe’s only previous job outside of Dorset – just under two years at Burnley – was not the failure that is occasionally presented but certainly a time when he struggled to inspire the sort of improvement that Bournemouth fans had come to expect. The wider backdrop was also the most difficult personal period of his life following the death of his mother Anne.

He felt a need to return to Dorset in 2012 and the people he knew best.Yet the legacy he left at Burnley was strong. He signed Ben Mee, now club captain and one of the most important Burnley players of the Sean Dyche era. Also from Manchester City’s development teams, Howe signed Kieran Trippier, now an England regular and occasional England captain. The combined cost of those two was around £600,000. Another future England international, Danny Ings, arrived from Bournemouth for just £1 million. His next club would be Liverpool.

Back at Bournemouth he was able to shape the club almost completely in his own image, right down to the messaging around the stadium to the surface of the training pitches and the shape of the dining tables. The staff around him, headed by his assistant Jason Tindall – often a more demonstrative touchline presence – and numerous other ex-team-mates were hand-picked. Some will follow him to Newcastle.

Callum Wilson will once again be under the guidance of former boss Eddie Howe at Newcastle CREDIT: Shutterstock

Harry Redknapp would say that football fandom got progressively more laid-back as you travelled along the south-coast between Portsmouth and Bournemouth via Southampton and there can be no doubt that Howe would be operating under a scrutiny at Newcastle that he has never previously known.

He is said to be excited by the prospect and would certainly attempt to deal with all the outside noise by simply focussing on improving the team.

The experience of working previously with Maxim Demin at Bournemouth, hardly a conventional owner, would also stand him in good stead for what might follow.

The hope must be that Newcastle’s new Saudi Arabian owners, represented in England by Amanda Staveley, now give him the autonomy to shape the club in his image and the time for change to take hold.

Howe has often spoken about how his mother instilled in him a work ethic that, even by the obsessional standards of football managers, is all-consuming and that he thinks about her before every game.

He has an eclectic range of influences and can talk with as much passion about what he learnt in a dressing-room with Tony Pulis and Sean O’Driscoll at Bournemouth as time spent studying managers like Brendan Rodgers and Arsene Wenger, or the legendary basketball coach John Wooden.

Like Wooden, Howe is most fascinated by the process and the compound impact of relentlessly high-quality training and preparation. “There’s a lot of worry in the world,” he once said. “The reality is that it’s all about the preparation. You hope then that the result takes care of itself in the knowledge that you have done everything in your power to produce the best performance.”

[Miggys First Goal]

1 minute ago, elbee909 said:

If anyone can copy paste the Telegraph article for us overseas peeps, would be appreciated. I'm not giving that Tory rag any payment details!

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It is not a perfect metric but the adage that you can best measure a manager’s worth by the state of a club at the beginning and end of their tenure remains as reliable as any.

 

And when Eddie Howe became Bournemouth manager in January 2009, they were 23rd in League Two, 10 points adrift of safety and fighting not just for their Football League survival but their very existence as a club.

 

When he left 11 years later, Bournemouth were exiting the Premier League following five straight seasons in the top-flight, three promotions and easily the greatest era in the club’s history.

 

Yes, the fairy tale did not have the ending he wanted, but the bottom line is that Newcastle United would be getting a 43-year-old manager of vast, if often understated, substance.

 

His use of the 15 months since leaving Bournemouth has been instructive.

 

There have been no media interviews. No self-promotion. No getting his name linked with any enticing vacancy.

 

Howe has instead utilised his first sustained break from playing or managing for a combination of family time – his eldest boys Harry and Rocky are budding footballers – and the chance to prepare for his managerial return. This has meant looking back as well as forward.

 

And so Howe has spent a sizable part of the past year reflecting on what he did right and what he did wrong at Bournemouth, particularly in that painful final season. That has meant re-watching their matches and reassessing the training sessions, of which all were carefully logged, to better understand how his players reacted to what he had been trying to achieve.

 

Howe has his own football philosophy document and, in also watching plenty of football, often live with his two boys, he has been constantly updating his own attacking vision for the game.

 

He has taken time to visit other clubs and understand how they work, notably Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid. The Argentine coach has proved himself one of the masters of adaptation, taking on the big two in Spain with a distinctive style of play that has yielded great success, including two league titles. Howe also visited another Madrid club, Rayo Vallecano, who were promoted last season to La Liga. At Vallecano he has encountered a different kind of coach, albeit one whose journey is similar to his own.

 

Andoni Iraola, 39, briefly a Spain international in his playing days, not only has got Vallecano promoted from the second tier but the club, who have spent more time out of the first tier over their history, are currently sixth in Liga – vastly outperforming their budget.

 

Two days were also spent at Liverpool including a meeting with the architect of the club’s golden recruitment era, technical director Michael Edwards. Howe recognises that recruitment will be critical for Newcastle, especially when the club try to navigate this next January transfer window, and he will also know that it was an area which faltered to some extent towards the end of his Bournemouth tenure.

 

At Liverpool he also met Alex Inglethorpe, the club’s academy director. He wanted to understand how the club have overhauled their structure over the past decade to a level that is allowing them to overcome the financial disadvantages and compete so consistently with Manchester City.

 

He has already spent long hours assessing the Newcastle players and there would be immediate familiar faces in Callum Wilson, Ryan Fraser and Matt Ritchie, three players whose careers he has already influenced hugely.

 

There would be risks, of course, on all sides. Howe’s only previous job outside of Dorset – just under two years at Burnley – was not the failure that is occasionally presented but certainly a time when he struggled to inspire the sort of improvement that Bournemouth fans had come to expect. The wider backdrop was also the most difficult personal period of his life following the death of his mother Anne.

 

He felt a need to return to Dorset in 2012 and the people he knew best.Yet the legacy he left at Burnley was strong. He signed Ben Mee, now club captain and one of the most important Burnley players of the Sean Dyche era. Also from Manchester City’s development teams, Howe signed Kieran Trippier, now an England regular and occasional England captain. The combined cost of those two was around £600,000. Another future England international, Danny Ings, arrived from Bournemouth for just £1 million. His next club would be Liverpool.

 

Back at Bournemouth he was able to shape the club almost completely in his own image, right down to the messaging around the stadium to the surface of the training pitches and the shape of the dining tables. The staff around him, headed by his assistant Jason Tindall – often a more demonstrative touchline presence – and numerous other ex-team-mates were hand-picked. Some will follow him to Newcastle.

 

Harry Redknapp would say that football fandom got progressively more laid-back as you travelled along the south-coast between Portsmouth and Bournemouth via Southampton and there can be no doubt that Howe would be operating under a scrutiny at Newcastle that he has never previously known.

 

He is said to be excited by the prospect and would certainly attempt to deal with all the outside noise by simply focussing on improving the team.

 

The experience of working previously with Maxim Demin at Bournemouth, hardly a conventional owner, would also stand him in good stead for what might follow.

 

The hope must be that Newcastle’s new Saudi Arabian owners, represented in England by Amanda Staveley, now give him the autonomy to shape the club in his image and the time for change to take hold.

 

Howe has often spoken about how his mother instilled in him a work ethic that, even by the obsessional standards of football managers, is all-consuming and that he thinks about her before every game.

 

He has an eclectic range of influences and can talk with as much passion about what he learnt in a dressing-room with Tony Pulis and Sean O’Driscoll at Bournemouth as time spent studying managers like Brendan Rodgers and Arsene Wenger, or the legendary basketball coach John Wooden.

 

Like Wooden, Howe is most fascinated by the process and the compound impact of relentlessly high-quality training and preparation. “There’s a lot of worry in the world,” he once said. “The reality is that it’s all about the preparation. You hope then that the result takes care of itself in the knowledge that you have done everything in your power to produce the best performance.”

 

 

[nbthree3]

We're getting someone who works every day (he's on the record often saying it's life-consuming, no wonder) trying to get better for themselves and for their team.

 

Model professional and the consortium obviously have faith in him as he interviewed (The Athletic say better than Emery!) well and has planned transfers, tactics and the sort.

 

Understand the scepticism but no doubt he'll try everything he's got to turn it around as he's obviously that type of person

[Vinny Green Balls]

He seems like an English manager in a bizarro universe. Just needs a goatee.

[Slim]

 

[nbthree3]

If that video's anything to go by can we get a chant going to one of A-ha's songs? Good music taste btw

[Wolfcastle]

1 hour ago, The Prophet said:

We have a manager, an assistant manager and a first team coach?

 

Think Keegan, McDermott and Arthur Cox

or Sir Bobby, Addison and Carver the cone putter outerer

not to shabby

[mattypnufc]

That Torygraph article has completely swayed my opinion. I was firmly in the ‘what a shit appointment’ camp.  Expected more from the new owners. Perhaps too much. It’s genuinely encouraging that he’s spent the last 15 months growing and learning after some managers would spend it on the golf course. 

[Wolfcastle]

13 minutes ago, nbthree3 said:

If that video's anything to go by can we get a chant going to one of A-ha's songs? Good music taste btw

Been Hunting High and Low for a new manager while Howe's been saying Take On Me

[Numbers]

Wonder whats taking so long, wasn't it technically done last night?

[worthy]

1 minute ago, mattypnufc said:

That Torygraph article has completely swayed my opinion. I was firmly in the ‘what a shit appointment’ camp.  Expected more from the new owners. Perhaps too much. It’s genuinely encouraging that he’s spent the last 15 months growing and learning after some managers would spend it on the golf course. 

Yeah, that gave me a whole new perspective on him

[Wolfcastle]

3 minutes ago, Numbers said:

Wonder whats taking so long, wasn't it technically done last night?

 

Its a concern again and it can't be like this in January.  Need these, hopefully, teething problems sorted by then.

[Collage]

He seems to be an anti-Bruce, i.e incredibly hungry, curious and eager to improve.

[SUPERTOON]

Interesting in that article he met Michael Edwards at Liverpool, been linked with our sporting director role 

[Rocker]

1 minute ago, Wolfcastle said:

 

Its a concern again and it can't be like this in January.  Need these, hopefully, teething problems sorted by then.

Why announce it before a game though? I feel it would be tarnished with a probable defeat tomorrow. 

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5 minutes ago, Numbers said:

Wonder whats taking so long, wasn't it technically done last night?

Can't remember where I read it, but I think the agreement was on the proviso of the appointment of his backroom staff, so its probably just been sorting contracts out for them, and Tindall is currently in work, so making sure that a fee can be agreed for his release etc. 

[Chicane]

1 minute ago, Collage said:

He seems to be an anti-Bruce, i.e incredibly hungry, curious and eager to improve.

 

Not that different then

[Collage]

Just now, Chicane said:

 

Not that different then

[nbthree3]

 

[Awaymag]

2 minutes ago, nbthree3 said:

 

Who is this wanker?  Never heard of him before the takeover?

[MrRaspberryJam]

3 minutes ago, nbthree3 said:

 

 

Welcome Frank Lampard. 

[Miggys First Goal]

6 minutes ago, nbthree3 said:

 

 

He doesn't want Jones?

[Kid Icarus]

[KaKa]

1 hour ago, nbthree3 said:

Details what he's been getting up to since leaving Bournemouth 

 

 

Oh my goodness man. This is going to be our manager?!