Eddie Howe agrees 2.5 year deal to manage the Geordies

MFP said:
Never understand the attempts to undermine what Howe did with Bournemouth by referring to them spending fortunes, which isn't really true. Whilst they broke FFP, their wage bill was no where near the highest in the league and their transfer fees were tiny. I think they spent around £4m on fees the season they were promoted and most of it recouped from the Grabban sale.
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"Bournemouth were deemed to have breached the FFP rules in the 2014/15 season, when they won the second-tier Championship and earned promotion to the Premier League, recording a 38.33 million pound loss in the process."

You don't lose £38m on nothing.
You also don't agree a £4.75m fine for breaching FFP when you're outside of the jurisdiction of the EFL for nothing.

It's only an attempt to undermine Howe in as much as it's contradicting the narrative that they were plucky underdogs that were promoted against the odds.
They were heavily backed to achieve promotion.

Promotion is an achievement however it's achieved, Burnley and Middlesbrough both spent heavily to achieve it the season after, but I'm more impressed by him keeping them up than I am him getting them promoted.
 
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Except you do agree a fine when it's chickenfeed compared to the huge boon received from getting prompted to the Premier League.
Bear in mind, Bournemouth breached FFP due to the bonuses paid out, I would suggest whilst this might come across rather sneaky to exploit FFP in such a way, it is a rather astute decision when the reward is top flight football.
And also bear in mind that even with these bonuses added to their salary bill the financial resources they had access to was paltry compared to some clubs they were competing against. I'm pretty certainly clubs like QPR and Hull had wages bills in excess of over £60m that season.
 
Hull and QPR were Premier League teams that season.

The season after they'll have had a daft wage bill because they were newly relegated sides full of Premier League wages.
 
Yes, but as I said, it was the bonuses paid out - players, staff and shareholders that triggered the FFP violation. It more or less doubled their previous bill. They weren't the massive spenders with massive fortunes that some are making out.
 
Billy Horner said:
So they've got a decent squad, but if they suffer injuries to 2 players they might struggle to stay up? :unsure:
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They could struggle to stay up anyway. In my opinion the biggest factor on a clubs success is the manager. A good manager can take a mediocre team to the top of the league (not so much in the prem) and a bad manager can get a mediocre team relegated.

But yeah I think a squad that should really finish around the 11th - 14th mark (in my opinion) could easily get dragged into a relegation battle if the two best players are out long term.

Genuinely surprised you find that comment so puzzling.
 
Heam44 said:
They could struggle to stay up anyway. In my opinion the biggest factor on a clubs success is the manager. A good manager can take a mediocre team to the top of the league (not so much in the prem) and a bad manager can get a mediocre team relegated.

But yeah I think a squad that should really finish around the 11th - 14th mark (in my opinion) could easily get dragged into a relegation battle if the two best players are out long term.

Genuinely surprised you find that comment so puzzling.
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Obviously any side would suffer from the loss of their two best players. It might cost them the odd point here and there.

But what you're saying is that, with those two players they should finish comfortably mid-table, but without them they could easily be in a relegation battle.

By definition, that means they're over-reliant on those two players. Therefore they don't have a "decent squad", as the rest of them are relegation material.
 
Wasnt Steve Bruce in charge of man City when they got bought and was quickly sidelined there too.
 
Sven was in charge when that Thai fella bought the club and then Hughes after Sven as sacked.
 
Hughes was in charge when ADUG took over, if that's who you're referring to.
 
Heam44 said:
could easily get dragged into a relegation battle if the two best players are out long term
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Two players? They'll struggle to stay up if Callum Wilson is out.

Are they spending much cash if they're opting for Eddie Howe? If they had real money to spend surely they'd have attracted a better manager. Rafa Benitez was willing to go to Newcastle (and China!) and he's not a bad manager. I wonder if Newcastle are the reason Conte is at Spurs. Forced Levy to spend real money rather than lose out.
 
I think the first crop of players coming in might be from out of favour players, Winks and Dele Alli for instance have already been mentioned. Not the type of player that they need for me, all the same.

When the big money first came in at the other clubs they didn't immediately sign players from Barcelona etc but they signed players to make the transition.

Howe has a hell of a job on his hands to keep them up and will need a few, maybe short term signings to crawl over the line. He needs to make them more solid to start with.
 
They're gonna have to go after the broken biscuits on this one!

Imagine Eddie Howe with a bunch of Mido's to contend with.. risky business.

I wonder if he has a get out clause? Like if he saves them for relegation, he just gets a huge wedge just to walk away?
 
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