PREMIER LEAGUE
EDDIE HOWE has the unwavering support of Bournemouth owner Maxim Demin – despite the club’s worst Premier League campaign.
The Dorset outfit are slumped in the bottom three after collecting just four points from the last 30 available.
But while many of their relegation rivals have changed managers recently, including today’s visitorswatford, Bournemouth have stayed loyal to Howe (left).
And the Cherries boss puts that down to a rock-solid partnership with Russian supremo Demin stretching back to 2012.
Howe, in his second spell at the club, said: “It’s a relationship that’s very positive, very healthy. He’s given me all the support I need.
“That’s never changed, never wavered throughout our time in the Premier League, the Championship and League One. I don’t think he’ll be liking the position we’re in – as much as I’m not – but he’s a very positive guy who always looks for solutions to problems. He hasn’t mentioned the word relegation to me.”
ERLING HAALAND has claimed Manchester
United did not do enough to lure him to Old Trafford.
And the striker, 19, claims Borussia Dortmund made him feel wanted and valued before leaving Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg last week.
The Norwegian star (below), who has scored 28 goals in 22 games this season, said: “Dortmund just went direct and said we need you up the front. “They told me they like my playing style and we want to have you here. I liked the way they spoke to me then and that was what triggered the move.
“I spent a few days looking around the club and speaking to the senior people at Dortmund and I just felt that me and Dortmund were a good match.
“I spoke to other clubs, big clubs, but no one gave me the feeling I had at Dortmund. They really wanted me there.
“During my visit I had several intense conversations with
Michael Zorc the sporting director and the coach Lucien Favre. They were all really keen for me to join them and right from the very start I knew I wanted to move here.”
NIALL QUINN says he has no sympathy for the plight that Manchester United find themselves in because they were able to lord it over everyone else under Sir Alex Ferguson for almost 20 years.
And the former Manchester City striker insists his old club must go for broke in the Champions League in order to rub salt in the Old Trafford club’s wounds.
He said: “As somebody who sat and suffered watching
Man City’s fortunes from a low point in my time, I wouldn’t feel sorry for them.”
United were cut to pieces by their bitter rivals in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final last Tuesday and Quinn feels there isn’t a single one of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s players that would make it into Pep Guardiola’s starting XI, saying: “I wouldn’t even have David de Gea this year.”