Eddie Howe is just at the start of his managerial career and he has come up against some of the very best a few times now, but is he able to develop his own knowledge from them? In the Premier League I do wonder how easy it is to pick up ideas from other managers as everything is so frantic that one game follows another and managers have so much to try and get right in making their own layers do their jobs without trying to pick up new ideas from a manager in charge of another team who has his own reasons for playing the way he can with his players.
Pep himself is only in his second season in the Premier League and he didn't get it right in his first season. I think much of his success is built on his analysis of what his team is not doing well enough more than how he worries about what the opposition might do. Eddie Howe is also very dedicated to focus on what his team is doing well and not so well rather than try and react to the opposition. While Guardiola has a healthy budget to buy in players he has developed players that were at City already, even if they are like Sterling well seasoned international players, he has also bought well. I still think Eddie Howe is learning on the transfer market and the type of players Howe can buy are obviously much further from the finished star Premier League player that Guardiola can go after.
I should think Howe would learn more from managers like Guardiola on the training pitch than on a match day when there are so many more distractions that are outside the control of Guardiola. But it is noticeable that Guardiola is one of the most talkative and hand gesturing managers on the touchline in the league, whereas Eddie Howe hardy gives anything away with his small note pad receiving most of his attention. That in itself might be something that Eddie should note, Pep doesn't jot everything down but almost loses himself in the game just watching and drawing information while reacting with his players and giving them messages to add positive encouragement.
What I am sure is that the moments after the game where Eddie has a moment or two to talk with Pep will seem all too short for Eddie.
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| Man City have just been great for Guardiola but can Eddie Howe pick some things up from the way Guardiola sets up his team and how they play? |
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I should think Howe would learn more from managers like Guardiola on the training pitch than on a match day when there are so many more distractions that are outside the control of Guardiola. But it is noticeable that Guardiola is one of the most talkative and hand gesturing managers on the touchline in the league, whereas Eddie Howe hardy gives anything away with his small note pad receiving most of his attention. That in itself might be something that Eddie should note, Pep doesn't jot everything down but almost loses himself in the game just watching and drawing information while reacting with his players and giving them messages to add positive encouragement.
What I am sure is that the moments after the game where Eddie has a moment or two to talk with Pep will seem all too short for Eddie.
Possible AFCB team to play Man City.
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| It would not surprise me if King and Arter make miraculous recoveries. Subs: Boruc, Simpson, Ibe, Stanislas, Pugh, Mousset, Afobe |
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