Eddie Howe

[Matt1892]

When a club wants to change the set up behind the scenes it is likely to upset the incumbent manager, especially if it isn’t a way they want to work.

 

The difficulty for the club is how they manage the situation, they have a popular manager in place when they want a first team coach.

[Alberto2005]

I'm interested to know what Howe wants, I disagree if he's wanting to have complete control over signings. I'm not saying that's the case btw.

[KaKa]

Because of how awful Bruce was, we couldn't hire a Sporting Director prior to getting a manager in, which would have been the ideal way of going about things.

 

Howe came in first and settled into a way of working with Amanda and Mehrdad acting as defacto sporting directors, that essentially let him operate however he wanted.

 

On top of that Howe's history coming through at Bournemouth, is one where he had to take on a lot and have control over a lot of areas, and where he did delegate it was to people he was close with and knew well.

 

Ultimately, this way of working is not going to work at a bigger club, or one aiming for that kind of standard at least.

 

We'll soon find out if he is able to adjust or not. If not he'll have to work at clubs that are willing to let him run/control the whole show, and these are increasingly few and far between, and lower down the table.