The AFC Bournemouth fans now in The Transfer Tavern have received a few good news regarding the future of their manager, and it is shots all round for the Cherries faithful by the bar!
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Club record signing Tyrone Mings – who was recruited for £8 million from Ipswich over the summer – is due to miss the remainder of the season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury, while fellow new arrival Max Gradel is sidelined for the next six months with the same injury.
Howe, 37, said: ‘I think everyone is well aware of my feelings for the football club.
He has since overseen three promotions to guide them to the Premier League, either side of a brief, unsuccessful spell at Burnley between January 2011 and October 2012.
Owner Maxim Demin added: ‘Eddie and I have a very close relationship, we speak everyday and we trust each other implicitly when making decisions that affect the football club.
Sam Allardyce is hours away from his first game as manager of Sunderland, which means life is about to – if not already – get a lot tougher for the Black Cats, who now sit 19th in the Premier League with zero wins from their opening eight games.
‘It just gives you that confidence and stability.
“I am desperate to move this club forward even more and to continue the success we have had”. All the feedback we have had from a number of different people said it was just down to bad luck. “He’s in a good form, he’s a very positive guy, he’s got a great mentality”.
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“He will need more training time, more game time – that’s me, in an ideal world – sometimes you don’t know what happens and whether you’re forced to put players in before you want to, but at the moment I’d say another week or possibly longer before he’s considered for selection”. “Yeah, if we had it I’d probably spend it but then attracting a player for £50million is another matter”.
