Eddie Howe

[The Prophet]

The owners are 'taking stock' before deciding whether to appoint Howe, according to the Beeb.

[B-more Mag]

17 minutes ago, toontownman said:

Love that a fair few of us have gone Full Howe. He will likely turn us down tmrw or we will appoint martinez instead!

 

Hope not. No refunds on my custom "I've Talked Myself Into Howe!" t-shirt.

[B-more Mag]

2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

The owners are 'taking stock' before deciding whether to appoint Howe, according to the Beeb.

 

"How many candidates do we have now?"

"Just the one, Amanda."

"Okay, stock taken!"

[Chapo]

2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

The owners are 'taking stock' before deciding whether to appoint Howe, according to the Beeb.

May as well at this point. Not like he’ll be in the dugout for Brighton now. 

[Dr Venkman]

On the bright side, this should make it easier to get tickets for me and the boy

[The Prophet]

I wonder what happened with Favre. Perhaps the lack of PL experience put them off.

[Bimpy474]

 

I'm sold now, there's some levels of Rafa obsession of football that Howe seems to have.

[Chapo]

I’ll be fucked if I’m watching another coaches YouTube vids after wasting time with Fonseca and Emery. 

[Bimpy474]

12 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

It was the same with Spurs in the summer to be fair, they made their manager hunt sound like a fiasco.

 

Aye, really is a nasty side to way things get reported, everything is just negative.

[Dr Jinx]

I’m concerned at the way all this has played out but I’m not overly upset about Emery. Good coach for sure but just something about him I can’t warm to. I don’t ever want any player or manager who doesn’t want to be here.

 

To me, it sounded like he didn’t have total faith in himself to turn this situation around, worried about a sack clause if relegated? If he’s all that, that shouldn’t have even been an issue.

 

Staveley and co, good people used to dealing in certain circles. I think they’ll learn massively from this, they have to. The egos in football are unlike anything they’ve ever dealt with. This is why they urgently need a strong CEO to be front line for dealing with this stuff.

[Kaizero]

Emery's not done very well in the league with Villareal though, or am I mistaken? 

[Robster]

I'm being patient and trusting what the owners are doing but I just want someone soon because I don't feel like I'll fully enjoy the takeover until the new management team is in place.
 

[Armchair Pundit]

I'd still prefer Fonseca, he's attack minded and wear's Zorro outfits to press conferences, what's not to like? If it has to be Howe though then so be it, as has been said, he's an improvement on Bruce, just hope he's enough of an improvement to keep the crowd happy and hopefully save us from relegation. 

[Skeletor]

Howe is a no excitement appointment. Will probably keep us up which is the main goal this season but I can't imagine him signing great players.

[toon25]

15 minutes ago, Bimpy474 said:

 

I'm sold now, there's some levels of Rafa obsession of football that Howe seems to have.

I wonder what Big Steve's tactics and analysis room looked like.

[Robster]

2 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

Howe is a no excitement appointment. Will probably keep us up which is the main goal this season but I can't imagine him signing great players.

I think signing 'great' players is a few seasons away.
What we need is someone to help grow the club to a point where the club, as much as it's manager, becomes the big selling point.

[McDog]

6 minutes ago, Armchair Pundit said:

I'd still prefer Fonseca, he's attack minded and wear's Zorro outfits to press conferences, what's not to like? If it has to be Howe though then so be it, as has been said, he's an improvement on Bruce, just hope he's enough of an improvement to keep the crowd happy and hopefully save us from relegation. 

 

 

Those are huge positives (especially the Zorro thing) and he seems like a really passionate manager with a plan to boot. Alas......

[The Prophet]

I still have reservations about Fonseca, largely because I know the least about him. 

 

I am enjoying just how enthusiastic he seems to be though. I'm half expecting him to rock up at SJP demanding an interview.

[Shak]

Will be quite positive if it's Howe.

 

Young manager who has done some good things and looks like he has potential to grow. Should hopefully be able to make a quick impact which is important given our current plight.

 

Important to remember that this doesn't necessarily have to be the manager that takes us to the CL and winning trophies. So much change needs to happen at the club before that's something we can realistically aim for, if he comes in and keeps us up and gets us looking like a team with some semblance of a plan while we rebuild the squad for a couple of years that'll be an important job done.

 

Maybe he'll take a step forward as a manager at a club with more resources and become a top boss. If so, great. If not, that'll become evident in time and we'll hopefully be better able to attract a Ten Hag or Emery level manager by then.

[Away Toon]

Villarreal manager Unai Emery, 50, turned down a move to Newcastle because the club wanted a clause in his contract which would allow them to sack him if the Magpies are relegated at the end of the season. (Daily Mirror)

[Memphis]

Howe would be fine. I can't pretend to be excited given the shambolic search but I think he'd be fine. I would expect that he would help us crawl rather than walk, and he certainly wouldn't be the man to take us to the upper echelon. 

[Thumbheed]

Not vehemently against Howe being appointed but I just don't see a manager that will be able to give us the edge and steel we desperately need for a relegation battle. 

 

What he did at Bournemouth was genuinely impressive irrespective of net outlay and their eventual relegation, but what can't be ignored is the fact that when he was managing, he was up against a closed shop top 6 and 14 others all capable of beating each other, you look at the league now and it's a far more settled top 10/11, with most of those teams having settled squads with plenty of quality throughout them, a top manager or in most cases both. Outside of those top 10/11 you then have 3-4 teams with some real top quality players in their side. 

 

Getting us out this predicament is not gonna be an easy task and I just can't see how Howe would bring us to the performance level we'd need to compete against these teams. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 4, 2021 by Thumbheed

[Consortium of one]

In five years all the good coaches will fight each other for this job.

 

For 14 years we watched this club spiral down.

 

Now we get to watch it rise

[Shadow Puppets]

17 minutes ago, Memphis said:

Howe would be fine. I can't pretend to be excited given the shambolic search but I think he'd be fine. I would expect that he would help us crawl rather than walk, and he certainly wouldn't be the man to take us to the upper echelon. 

Shambolic search? Hyperbole much?

[et tu brute]

1 hour ago, The Prophet said:

I wonder what happened with Favre. Perhaps the lack of PL experience put them off.

Every foreign manager, when they first come, is in the same boat, some succeed very well and some don’t. However you see UK managers like Bruce (with tons of Premier League experience) failing time and time again. If a manager is good enough and has a decent track record of results, player/team development, tactics, in play management etc etc and at a decent level, then that should be first priority when hiring, not what League they have not managed in.

 

 

Edited November 4, 2021 by et tu brute