Eddie Howe

[LFEE]

3 hours ago, PauloGeordio said:

 

 

 

Didn’t that account want him sacked a month into the season? 

[PauloGeordio]

10 minutes ago, LFEE said:

 

 

Didn’t that account want him sacked a month into the season? 

He’s proved a lot of folk wrong. Imagine if he had the same funds at his disposal as the cartel clubs! 

[Skeletor]

If (when) we get in the CL, please for the love of god give this man a SQUAD to work with rather than just a 1st team and a few subs.

[midds]

Howe's main problem will come in a couple of years time. That first raft of players we brought into the club in the first 2 windows will all be 4 or 5 years older and they too will need to be replaced, I'm thinking Trippier, Burn, Targett, Pope and Bruno (to a lesser extent). So not only will he need to continue to weed out the malingerers from the squad he inherited but he'll also need to start planning to replace the replacements. The youth teams don't appear to be churning out masses of talent and the younger players we've invested in are still a few years from developing into useful squad players. 

 

We're going to be constantly chasing for at least another 10 years yet imo. Players age and need upgrading and that includes who we have already brought in. We desperately need to get the youth system right and it needs to start producing very soon or I fear we'll never really bridge that gap. Seeing even a couple of players introduced each year would be huge, introducing players capable of even PL-squad level means more cash can go into the stars. This was the squad he inherited from the pig:

 

That is a squad of players that was, literally, worthless. He had virtually nothing to build on and I think that gets ignored too often and makes what he's done even more impressive