Eddie Howe

[Coffee_Johnny]

9 minutes ago, MrRaspberryJam said:

 

Joelinton, Shelvey and Bruno was our midfield 3 last season when available IIRC. Shelvey sat deep 

You’re bang on. They’ve played more together than I recalled, 13 games. Two this season (Southampton away win and Palace 3rd round cup win). 
 

Interesting looking at who he’s played with and who has played with who!
 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jonjo-shelvey/gemeinsamespiele/spieler/71292

[Gawalls]

1 hour ago, Ronaldo said:

Longstaff has no business being a regular starter for a team with top 4 aspirations mind. They really need to address that.

I’m sure my wife thinks he’s called fucksake longstaff as that’s all I seem to shout when we’re on Tv

 

 

Edited January 22, 2023 by Gawalls

[wyn davies]

1 hour ago, Ronaldo said:

Longstaff has no business being a regular starter for a team with top 4 aspirations mind. They really need to address that.

Do we think if an offer came in this window we would accept ?

[relámpago blanco]

41 minutes ago, wyn davies said:

Do we think if an offer came in this window we would accept ?

No, we don't have enough midfielders as it is.  Unless you get a silly offer, 25M+

[James]

I’d say Longstaff is in the top 3 players most likely to still be here in three seasons time.

 

He won’t be a starter, but he will be here.

[Kid Icarus]

That makes little sense. We've only just signed Bruno, Botman, Isak, Pope. That's 4 already 

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[cubaricho]

3 hours ago, Jaqen said:

I think because Bruno likes to push on a fair bit more than a traditional 6 you need a more defensive minded player in the three alongside him

This is a myth that keeps getting peddled on this forum. The elusive DM that’s the missing cog, that will unleash the “real” Bruno. The reality is that our style of play doesn’t require a more defensive minded player in the middle of the park. We keep possession by pressing and recycling better and faster than almost any other club in the PL. Every one of our midfielders has legs and cleans up their area of the pitch with ease, a traditional DM or more defensive minded player will bring nothing to our set up and, I believe, actually hinder the way we are playing. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

2 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

This is a myth that keeps getting peddled on this forum. The elusive DM that’s the missing cog, that will unleash the “real” Bruno. The reality is that our style of play doesn’t require a more defensive minded player in the middle of the park. We keep possession by pressing and recycling better and faster than almost any other club in the PL. Every one of our midfielders has legs and cleans up their area of the pitch with ease, a traditional DM or more defensive minded player will bring nothing to our set up and, I believe, actually hinder the way we are playing. 

I’d prefer another Bruno, and the fluid flexible midfield it would offer, but I’d take that Alvarez dude from Ajax in a heart beat. 

[Shak]

1 minute ago, cubaricho said:

This is a myth that keeps getting peddled on this forum. The elusive DM that’s the missing cog, that will unleash the “real” Bruno. The reality is that our style of play doesn’t require a more defensive minded player in the middle of the park. We keep possession by pressing and recycling better and faster than almost any other club in the PL. Every one of our midfielders has legs and cleans up their area of the pitch with ease, a traditional DM or more defensive minded player will bring nothing to our set up and, I believe, actually hinder the way we are playing. 

 

Yep, I'm OK with signing a "DM" to let Bruno play further forward but if we do that the player should be someone who is comparable to Bruno in the way they play.

 

It's not really a defensive player in our system as a lot of what we want from that role is someone who can break the press when we're trying to play it out from the back and someone who can pick a pass in opposition territory when possession is recycled back to them.

 

Bruno is great as he can continue to play that role as we've seen this year if we went for someone more attack minded but he could be pushed further forward if we went for a deep lying playmaker.

 

Personally lean towards leaving him in the position he's played this year and signing someone like Maddison. Would be a great mixture of players having a Joelinton, Bruno and Maddison midfield trio.

[Guest]

Rather get a 10 or player capable of unlocking defence then a DM type

[Shadow Puppets]

Howe pretty much confirmed in his post game press conference yesterday that he's looking for ONE player. Personally think it'll be a versatile forward / attack minded player, someone who can play across the front or at number 10.

[Jaqen]

34 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

This is a myth that keeps getting peddled on this forum. The elusive DM that’s the missing cog, that will unleash the “real” Bruno. The reality is that our style of play doesn’t require a more defensive minded player in the middle of the park. We keep possession by pressing and recycling better and faster than almost any other club in the PL. Every one of our midfielders has legs and cleans up their area of the pitch with ease, a traditional DM or more defensive minded player will bring nothing to our set up and, I believe, actually hinder the way we are playing. 

 

Eh? We are clearly playing with a more defensive midfielder now though? Longstaff is essentially playing that role from RCM we've been more or less playing with a lobsided double pivot with him and Bruno for a while now and letting the two Joe's interchange in the left. 

 

We need quality on the ball more than anything in the midfield. A ball playing CM with Bruno to the side doesn't make us worse IMO. Put a Rodri or someone in there and Longstaff dropped and we are miles better. 

[Guest]

A good egg 

[gbandit]

The only thing I worry about with Howe is the sheer amount of football he consumes. It’s his best trait but I just desperately hope it doesn’t burn him out. That high performance podcast made me a bit scared that he doesn’t seem to enjoy things at all in the moment but maybe many great coaches are like that because they’re perfectionists and always know there are things that need to improve 

[TRon]

7 hours ago, PauloGeordio said:

?????????? hopefully the stats of the missed goals opportunities will be put to bed soon enough, just like his old defensive stats! ?

 

Sorry to keep banging on about it, but this stat just makes me angry every time I see it, because the only game we lost this season was against Liverpool where we got cheated out of going 2-0 up and winning the game.

[RobS]

4 minutes ago, Jack27 said:

A good egg 

my friends son on the right, hes still buzzing tonight lol, EH left a very good impression as you'd expect

 

 

Edited January 22, 2023 by RobS

[Coffee_Johnny]

19 minutes ago, RobS said:

my friends son on the right, hes still buzzing tonight lol, EH left a very good impression as you'd expect

 

 

 

That’s so lovely of Eddie and triggers a nice memory of my son playing (under 8’s) in front of Guardiola on his unveiling at City. Lost interest a bit in football but still has signed shirt/beaming smiley picture on his wall. 

[sampokong]

 

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Illustrious company.

[Disco]

 

[Kid Icarus]

Weird that they specify this century rather than just the usual PL history. 

[nufcjb]

7 minutes ago, Disco said:

 

Knowing how he is person who always wants to improve, he's probably gutted looking at that stat and be thinking he would have loved to turn those draws into wins rather than setting records. I bet you he's already studying the art of that right now.

 

That goals against stat though. Fuck me how well have we done in that aspect. The cunt Bruce with his 'attacking football' philosophy ffs.

 

 

Edited January 23, 2023 by nufcjb

[nbthree3]

 

[Weezertron]

1 hour ago, sampokong said:

 

 

That list is rank, like. 

 

Hopefully he can go long enough to get on the good list with international managers.