Eddie Howe

[TheEntertainer]

1 minute ago, J7 said:

What a strange post. Why would anyone talk about the managers position after good wins? They are however few and far between. Brentfordx2, Sunderlandx2, Palace, Everton type performances are more frequent.

Yeah the posts claiming if people were actually unhappy they should also complain after good results are almost as odd as the posts saying people are entitled for wanting a change after this torrid season with us being well into the bottom half of the league. 

[Dr Venkman]

5 minutes ago, andycap said:

A lot of teams would bring a new man in now and give him a look at the squad of players ready for the summer transfer window. 

At the minute maresca is available I'd take him personally has worked under pep and plays the style we as a club want to playing eventually. 

Andy can you either back up your claim about ‘the club’ desiring a specific style of football or shut up about it please?

[Milburn]

5 minutes ago, andycap said:

A lot of teams would bring a new man in now and give him a look at the squad of players ready for the summer transfer window. 

At the minute maresca is available I'd take him personally has worked under pep and plays the style we as a club want to playing eventually. 

Maresca would be my choice as well. Fits the profile and the style we should be moving towards.

 

Only concern is he’s already being mentioned as a potential option for City if/when Pep steps down this summer, so we might not be the only ones looking at him.

[Armchair Pundit]

Eddie looks like his energy and enthusiasm's taken a massive hit in recent months - it can't be easy to manage an aging squad, thin on quality in depth, after a previous nightmare summer transfer window and non-existent winter window, especially when the incoming players from the summer were all last minute emergencies, not first choices. They haven't been able to assimilate into the team and training for the whole squad has been at an all time low due to increased game volumes and expectations from overachieving in previous seasons. Basically, we went from being shit to being great in a very short time, with very little consolidation of talent in the team or strengthening for the long term. Common sense tells me to still stick with Eddie, until at least into next season, providing he's backed properly in the summer and we have a normal pre-season... but they way things are going I don't think he's going to get that, I think he'll be hounded out before then. I can already see elements of our support becoming like Chelsea's, where everything is expected now and if it's not delivered, regardless of any obvious mitigating factors, then an endless churn of journeymen managers becomes the norm. That's what I mean when I say that people have already forgotten where we were, Eddie deserves more support all round.

 

 

Edited April 12 by Armchair Pundit

[andycap]

Just now, Dr Venkman said:

Andy can you either back up your claim about ‘the club’ desiring a specific style of football or shut up about it please?

No 

[Dr Venkman]

4 minutes ago, BUJ said:

Eddie and his failing brand of football have my full and undivided support. Let's not let losing 25 points from winning positions let you waiver your opinion. 

 
Alreeat mayat?

[Kid Icarus]

3 minutes ago, Jackie Broon said:

 

They have backed Howe to the hilt, allowing him pretty much full control over transfers, and put £327m into the Club's accounts since June.

 

 

 

 

You've demonstrated perfectly how they continue to get away with it, because that's not what happened at all.

 

On 08/02/2026 at 09:30, Kid Icarus said:

Your CEO being M.I.A for a year, your DoF walking out on the eve of the transfer window and then the club not replacing either until a month or two after the window closed isn't Howe being given the reigns, or Howe being given control, as if it's some sort of reward or privilege that he wanted or earned.

 

It's all of us being left in the shit and Howe having the responsibility of digging us out of it thrust upon him while those above him looked (and continue to look) at every time-critical decision that's their responsibility and respond to it by throwing their hands up and saying "inshallah". Some might say it's culture clash, or due diligence, others might say it's gross incompetence. 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 12 by Kid Icarus

[nufc123]

7 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

They haven't, this is pure gaslighting like. 

Eh? They got plenty for DOF and CEO situations, the stadium, the trainig ground, the lack of going aganist the PL, the lack of help to Howe. Plenty in the PIF thread.

[Sir Joel Inton]

1 minute ago, dcmk said:

This season the performances are bad.

 

That's why he needs the opportunity to fix them in the summer. Which he's more than capable of 

 

He transformed a relegation fighting team into a Champions League one in short time.

 

Ranieri transformed a relegation fighting team into Premier League winners. I wouldn’t want him at Newcastle though.

 

Leicester also rightly sacked him. Replaced him with Rogers and went back to competing in Europe and winning an FA Cup.

 

Rogers has more honours than Howe. He was kept on for far too long at Leicester, despite significant evidence he was not learning or getting better and they took too long to sack him and ended up getting relegated. They’ve not recovered since.

 

Blind loyalty is not always the answer.

[dcmk]

Just now, NUFCDoog said:

 

And is now transforming us back the other way again 

You serious?

 

..This time last year we had just won a cup.  

 

I'm sure in your opinion that no elite managers have ever had their teams underachieve for a season or two.  

 

No such thing as blips.  

 

 

[Dr Venkman]

Just now, andycap said:

No 

Ahh ok. In that case I don’t think there should be a change of manager as it goes against what we want to do as a club, which is never ever move on from Eddie Howe.

[Beren]

18 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

I think he’ll find it’s very characteristic from us.

 

Think he means compared to previous season which is fair comment.

 

However I do think that interview was less scripted and unguarded than usual from Howe - and he doesn't seem to understand the issues, much less how to address them.

[J7]

2 minutes ago, dcmk said:

This season the performances are bad.

 

That's why he needs the opportunity to fix them in the summer. Which he's more than capable of 

 

He transformed a relegation fighting team into a Champions League one in short time.

He did, and now we’re going backwards. If I thought things were going to turn back around again, I’d be delighted. There are very few signs of it and I don’t think we should be blinded by our fondness for him. He’ll go elsewhere and do well no doubt.

[TheEntertainer]

10 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

They haven't, this is pure gaslighting like. 

There's been significant criticism of the dis-organised mess above Howe over the season, that doesn't absolve him of all blame though. 

[Dr.Spaceman]

He did nothing to help us today like, that was like watching a Bruce side.

[Wallsendmag]

21 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Let’s straight away discount Iraola then yeah? By your logic that means every other manager above us currently is better. On to Maresca, bloke spent more than Howe and hasn’t won a major trophy. On to Poch, won the league with PSG with Messi, Neymar and Mbappe. Howe would also walk the French league. Tbf not sure what Xavi has done. Find it weird you are so desperate to put Howes fantastic achievements down whilst ranking the others above him. Can’t be  bothered to keep talking about it though as you clearly have your mind made up.

 

You said he's better than all 4 of them yet there isn't 1 metric out there that you can use to back that up. For what it's worth I actually agree with you. Out of those 4, Iraola is the one I'd like to see us get. He's going to end up at a big club sooner or later. Wouldn't mind it being us.

[RS]

Even his post match pressers are becoming copy and pastes. Something’s changed. 

[Virtua Stiva]

The hierarchy deserves massive blame but at some point, Howe has to take the blame for a season full of poor decisions when you’re 45 games in, man

[Kid Icarus]

1 minute ago, nufc123 said:

Eh? They got plenty for DOF and CEO situations, the stadium, the trainig ground, the lack of going aganist the PL, the lack of help to Howe. Plenty in the PIF thread.

The difference between the criticism aimed at them vs aimed at Howe is night and day and we both know that. The amount of people who seem to have memory-holed last summer into one where PIF backed Howe and the summer was all Howe's fault is unbelievable.

[Jackie Broon]

Just now, Kid Icarus said:

 

You've demonstrated perfectly how they continue to get away with it, because that's not what happened at all.

 

 

 

 

The CEO situation was a very unfortunate circumstance with Eales illness, but it's difficult to see what direct influence that would have over the footballing side of the club in the short term.

 

The DOF walking seems likely to have been a power battle over transfer policy, which Eddie won.

[SUPERTOON]

19 minutes ago, andycap said:

They all play possession football that's why. We need to move away from our end to end type of play. 

No they dont, Iraola’s Bournemouth are a copy of us at our pressing best. 

[TRC]

2 minutes ago, Wallsendmag said:

 

You said he's better than all 4 of them yet there isn't 1 metric out there that you can use to back that up. For what it's worth I actually agree with you. Out of those 4, Iraola is the one I'd like to see us get. He's going to end up at a big club sooner or later. Wouldn't mind it being us.

I’d go for Glasner since he tanked his stock. I think he’s more flexible than all over those. He only plays 5 atb as he thought that was the best formation for the club 

[Kid Icarus]

3 minutes ago, TheEntertainer said:

There's been significant criticism of the dis-organised mess above Howe over the season, that doesn't absolve him of all blame though. 

Like I say, the amount and depth of criticism for PIF compared to that for Howe is night and day.

 

I'm not saying Howe should be absolved of all blame, I'm saying that the blame is focused almost exclusively on him. 

[andycap]

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

No they dont, Iraola’s Bournemouth are a copy of us at our pressing best. 

They keep the ball a lot better than us like and can control games. 

[TRon]

8 minutes ago, Jackie Broon said:

 

They have backed Howe to the hilt, allowing him pretty much full control over transfers, and put £327m into the Club's accounts since June.

 

 

 

 

 

That's how it's looked to me, but at the end of the day if we are losing games then it just looks like incompetence. I don't know if they have hired the right CEO or DOF, but those guys are answerable for results, and they aren't going to blame themselves after ploughing so much money in.