Bournemouth Boss Likes Swansea Blueprint

There can be little better as a football club then knowing that you have other clubs looking up to the way that you run things and want to emulate what you achieve for their own football club.

I always remember when our board took over that they used to look at sides like Charlton wanting to follow what they do. Charlton were an established Premier League side at the time and it was a good blueprint to be followed.

Whatever lessons we learned from looking at others we emulated and then you could easily argue that we exceeded them as well as we went on an incredible run that took us from the basement division to the Premier League and Europe as well.

So it is little wonder that other clubs look at what we do and want to repeat it for themselves and it is no surprise that it is something certainly that Bournemouth look at.

Managed by Eddie Howe - a manager who has been linked with us in the past - they have a reputation for playing football the right way and have gone on their own incredible journey against the odds. They are now less than two weeks away from their first ever season not just in the Premier League but in the top flight and it is Swansea that can inspire them to stay there against all odds as well.

"We have analysed a lot of the clubs that have got promoted, what they have done and how they have gone about their work,” Howe said.

"We have tried to follow our principles — and that’s more important than anyone else — but I would say we are more related to Swansea than anyone else because of the style of our football.

"That’s not to say we have followed their blueprint but there are similarities between the clubs, especially with their history and ours. Hopefully we can emulate what they have done.”

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