#3 Eddie Howe
Age: 38
Club: Bournemouth
Eddie Howe is undoubtedly one of the best English managers around. He has overseen the remarkable rise of AFC Bournemouth from the footballing abyss to establishing itself as a Premier League Club.
He spent 2 separate spells coaching Bournemouth, with a spell in Burnley in between and they have amounted to nothing short of a fairy tale. It was, therefore, little surprise to see him linked to the vacated England job; the poisoned chalice that it is, however, it is still an incredible honor to be managing the national team.
Howe had an unremarkable playing career, often interrupted by injury. By 2007, aged just 29, he decided it wasn’t for him and switched to coaching the Bournemouth reserve squad.
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In 2009, aged just 31, he managed to haul the Cherries away from League Two relegation despite a 17 point deficit; in the process preventing them from becoming a footnote in the history books.
Fast forward 7 years, and successive promotions has seen them become a Premier League club, harboring ambitions of top-half finishes and playing an exciting and attacking brand of football. All this while being comparatively financially restrained and the constant threat of having the best players being poached by better clubs.
It wouldn’t come as a surprise to see Howe managing a bigger club in the near future; his talent definitely warrants it.
