Eddie Howe faces a selection dilemma for Bournemouth’s Premier League opener against Aston Villa with nine new signings vying to start. Arsenal’s quality means they would beat anyone in the Championship, you can’t hide that. And he took great encouragement when he recently came across a statistic that claims at least 98 per cent of academy players who fail to break into the first-team at Premier League clubs never complete the return journey. “I’m not certain the Premier League know what’s coming”, says Mostyn.
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Eunan O’Kane, pictured with N.I boss, Michael O’Neill during the recent charity match at Brandywell.
. I will go with a regular and consistent player from last season in Matt Ritchie.
But the supporters quickly raised $1.4m and those who didn’t have money to throw in promised to contribute by making treats that would be sold in bake sales with the proceeds going to the club.
“We feel the team’s ready”.
“Lee is a player who we are excited about and will get fans off their seats”, Bournemouth Chief Executive Neill Blake told the club’s website. It is not something that has concerned him, but he is determined to make sure that those top-flight occasions are not a thing of the past.
“I am not going to sit here and criticise the referee, because they have hard jobs, but when it affects the game and you potentially getting a point or three points, then it is frustrating”.
“If we weren’t promoted this year I think there would have been a lot of our players pinched by Premier League clubs”.
We finally get to see a competitive match tomorrow after all the friendlies.
“At the same time he’s quite a ruthless manager”, explained O’Kane. Signing Josh McEachran from Chelsea looks like a solid move, but one worries about an approach that seemingly attempts to quantify as much as possible, virtually ruling out the ever-powerful intangibles of football.
In an era when overseas investors are desperate to buy English clubs so as to cash in on the Premier League s lucrative television deals, Watford have benefited from their takeover by the Pozzo family.
Andre Wisdom has joined on loan from Liverpool for the season while Youssouf Mulumbu and Graham Dorrans have also signed up. Sherwood’s inexperience as a manager may count against him should his side come a cropper early on. “You can’t really put a price on that!” We’ll all be hoping that striker Bafetimbi Gomis can carry on from where he left off at the end of last season, when he hit good, consistent goalscoring form thanks to scoring what was his second League goal of the season – a victor at Villa. And he believes the newly named Vitality Stadium can be an intimidating place for the league’s top teams.
“Everyone has something to prove and you can’t go into a game being fearful”. Let us know by dropping a comment below via our Facebook comment box.
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Eddie Howe’s South-coast side secured promotion to the Premier League for the first time in their history, despite being tipped for relegation to the third tier at the beginning of the game.
