ThomasC wrote:Blue78 wrote:Barclay1 wrote:"I want bigger things and a bigger club...... more ambitious than the club"
A damning statement of what we've become.
Question: should we match a managers ambition if it is higher than the club's ambition?
Not really as context if everything.
If that manager was someone from a lower league I.e. Michael Flynn then YES it would be a damning statement.
If that manager was an Eddie Howe who in the past has been linked with Arsenal and more recently Celtic then it isn’t a indication of where we are currently, but have been for the last 50 years.
So you admit after all this time, a billionaire owner has taken us nowhere. And that's ok cos u right

So in 10 years you expected him to turn us into a team that wins titles every season, has a chance of making the champions league (Celtic) and/or is generally considered to be one of the 5 biggest clubs in England (Arsenal).
I think your expectations might need reigning in a little!
There won’t be many championship or lower premier league teams that could attract a manager who has recently been linked.
with those two teams.
I think Howe is overrated and I’m just surprised we even approached him (if we did). Howe spent a fortune at Bournemouth both pre and during their Premier League years. I read one stat that their net spend was 2 x that of Liverpool in the 5 years they were in the Premier League and they pretty much outspent all teams around them - so he is a manger who I’m is used to spending big cash, although still got them relegated back to the Championship.