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24 minutes ago, LV said:

There does seem to be a dearth of decent managers about right now.

 

If only Rafa could have waited a few more months :anguish:

 

I'm actually surprised at the number of relatively high profile managers that are available. The problem is that they are mostly from the continent and so the prem experience thing is a bit of an issue, only because of the position we are in. If we were comfortably in mid table we could have easily gone for one of the people available without as much hesitancy I imagine.

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Seems their plan is to keep Bruce on just long enough to accept nothing managers as his replacement. Looks like it’s worked. I’d have been happy enough under Ashley with this appointment which would be about the best he could do but not to bring in a new era. 

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2 hours ago, neesy111 said:

 

So naive.

 

It's the job he did with Bournemouth in general, they are a tiny club and he got them punching well above where they should be.


Incredible really. He took them from on their arses in League 2 and kept them in the Premier League for 5 years playing a good brand of football. He spent money but no more than other clubs in the league. Amazing what he achieved.

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5 minutes ago, Lazarus said:

Howe would be a good appointment.

 

Not a great one, not particularly exciting or inspiring but look at where we are:

 

Lower PL club, poor facilities, poor squad, every single aspect of the club needs an overhaul.

 

We arnt gonna be playing CL football for minimun of 2 or 3 years so while we are in transition begind the scenes, Howe would be a good appointment.

 

Not with his defensive record he wouldn't, which is exactly what is required now. 

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Howe taking Bournemouth from League 2 to the PL is incredible but Lambert took Norwich from League 1 to the PL and look how he ended up at Villa. 

 

I think Howe is an OK manager, seems to be up to date with his management style compared to the likes of Bruce, dodgy Sam etc but we really should be going for someone better. Doesn't matter if they're in a job or not there's a boatload of experienced proven managers across Europe who we should be throwing money at to come here. This is a crucial point and we need to make sure this appointment is done correctly. (also why it's taking some time) I just don't think Howe adds up, needs to prove himself at another 1 or 2 clubs imo. 

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2 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:


Incredible really. He took them from on their arses in League 2 and kept them in the Premier League for 5 years playing a good brand of football. He spent money but no more than other clubs in the league. Amazing what he achieved.

 

He also managed them while they slowly fell apart.

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1 minute ago, Joey47 said:

 

He also managed them while they slowly fell apart.


A club like that are always going to go down again at some point. Let’s not forget they were a broken goal line technology away from sending Aston Villa down that season as well.

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1 minute ago, Dokko said:

Aye Lambert and Wilder did what Howe did on a fraction of the budget. Let’s get them in. 


Lambert was awful, Wilder had one good season. Howe sustained it for 5 years while consistently on the lowest budget.

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Just now, Optimistic Nut said:


Lambert was awful, Wilder had one good season. Howe sustained it for 5 years while consistently on the lowest budget.

Low budget? You mad. He spent a small fortune with big wages and had some very expensive flops to his name. 

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1 minute ago, joeyt said:

Not with clubs the size of Bournemouth they didn't

But at the same time, we’re an infinitely bigger club than Bournemouth. Instilling an inferiority complex about every team being bigger and better than us, and fighting against them to form a team ethic isn’t going to work here. 

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2 minutes ago, Dokko said:


Which was more to do with their overspending than the man in charge. 

 

:lol: nonsense. He kept a team in the Premier League for 5 seasons, a club who had never in their history been above Division 2/League 1 before he joined

 

I don't particularly want Howe but give the bloke some credit

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5 minutes ago, Sima said:

Talking about the likes of Conte and Zidane last week and here we are now talking about Howe and Rooney :lol: 


Its almost like keeping Bruce on is helping lower expectations by starving already hungry fans.

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2 minutes ago, Dokko said:

£200m Howe spent to keep Bournemouth in the PL. no idea how he managed it. Fair play. 

 

That's what circa £40 million season on average?

 

I agree he made some awful buys, but overall he did a fair job.

 

I don't think he'll be in contention so we don't need to worry about it.

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2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Taking a League Two team to five consecutive season in the Premier League is a ridiculous achievement like. 


just the £80m spend in 2 championship seasons. However did he do it?

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