Eddie Howe speaks out on Hammers link

Eddie Howe appears to have made it clear that he is staying on the south coast into the forseeable future.

Despite rumours all week from various sources that he and his backroom team are open to approaches from West Ham or elsewhere, the 41 year. has ruled it out according to Sky Sports.

In their report at https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11743/11873218/eddie-howe-says-there-is-no-glass-ceiling-at-bournemouth-amid-everton-and-west-ham-links Sky claim: ‘ Howe, who is currently the longest-serving manager in the Premier League, is under contract at the Cherries until the summer of 2020, but insists he will not be moving elsewhere.’

And he is reported as saying: “I always say if I am linked with other clubs and my players are too, then that has to be flattering. I have been spending no time on those things and all week it has been about preparing for Tottenham.”

When asked whether he would have to move to another club in order to challenge for top domestic trophies, Howe responded: “I think for me to answer that question and say there is a glass ceiling on it would be hugely damaging to my players, so absolutely not.

“People would have put a glass ceiling on us in the Championship and for never being able to get to the Premier League, we’ve done all of those things.

“Now we are fighting to create new memories towards the top of the Premier League and that’s the message to my players, we have to believe we can do that.

“I always have the approach to my work and to life really that you can achieve anything if you work hard enough, if you truly believe you can do it then you can.”

ClaretandHugh says: Eddie Howe seems unlikely to be moving from Bournemouth – a situation recognised not only by West Ham but most other clubs in Britain. He has spent most of his football life in the area and his statement today seems to make it clear he’s happy. When talking of a ‘glass ceiling’ is  making it clear there are no restrictions on what he and his team can’t achieve at the club which a few short years was on the edge of extinction. It’s not true and has never been true in Howe’s case because if it had been he would have been here a long time ago. We reported his No 2 Jason Tindal was from Mile End and a West Ham family but in reality the pair could have been at West Ham in 2015 at around the same time as Slaven Bilic arrived at West Ham. Instead Howe signed a deal to stay at Bournemouth. We’ve been in the game too long to accept that the unexpected can’t happen but what he is saying right now – whilst remaining a little ambiguous – shouldn’t start rising expectations too high.