WHILE Eddie Howe has taken on a job spearheading an ambitious project from the richest club in the world, he says his humble beginnings at Bournemouth have taught him to be resourceful as a head coach over the years.

The beginning of his managerial career saw him take over the Southern Coast side at the bottom of League Two with all hope of staying in the football league looking lost.

After initially taking caretaker charge, he was hired permanently in January 2009. In phenomenal circumstances, he managed to lead them away from the relegation zone despite being deducted 17 points.

Cash strapped Bournemouth were somehow promoted the following season by finishing second in the table and continued to achieve odds defying success as the seasons went on. In 18 months, Howe had taken them from the brink of non-league to the third tier of English football.

After promotion from League One, the promised land of the Premier League was reached in 2015 having gone up as winners of the Championship. Little old Bournemouth were playing the likes of Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea under Howe’s leadership.

The 43-year-old, surprisingly, is still fresh faced when it comes to football and is taking on a job that has, by far and away, the most pressure to come with it.

Along with that will be a host of riches and fortunes to dip into and a training ground that will have everything a head coach needs.

But a proper grounding in football says has been fundamental in Howe’s development as a manager.

Howe said: “I’ve come from a club where at the start of our journey, we had very limited resources in terms of facilities and we had huge success on the pitch. So the two things don’t correlate, it’s the work you do on the pitch that is the important thing.

“That’s not to say you don’t crave the best infrastructure, the best facilities that you can, the best things for your players, of course I do. I’ll be working hard on whatever we need to improve, whatever we need to give the players who are working hard to try and get that.

“The most important thing is actually the work. All you need is some grass and some footballs. Ideally some bibs too!

“Then you just need to go ahead and work and implement what you want to do.

“But I know that football at the very highest level, you need to treat players in a way that they expect and you need to give them no excuses. When they play on a Saturday, there’s a reason why they are not going to perform.”

Howe has been working with his players on the training ground all week ahead of his first game in charge after the international break. That will be against Brentford at St James’ Park on Saturday 20th November.

It’s been reported that Howe and his players went for a team bonding session earlier in the week as he and his new look coaching staff get to know their players.

Newcastle are languishing in the bottom three of the Premier League relegation zone and are winless in eleven games. With pressure on Howe and his players to find a win from somewhere, he says his short term objective is to keep the club in the Premier League this season.