Bournemouth's Eddie Howe sees Brendan Rodgers as a role model

Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe admits he sees Brendan Rodgers as a role model ahead of his side's trip to Liverpool on Monday evening.

Howe is widely regarded as one of the country’s most promising young managers and won plaudits for the manner in which he led his side to promotion from the Sky Bet Championship last season.

The 37-year-old has tracked his Liverpool counterpart's career closely since he was in charge of Swansea and is an admirer of the manner he sends his teams out to play.

"Brendan Rodgers has been a role model, really, for me," said Howe. "Someone you look up to and admire. I admired watching his Swansea teams play.

"When you try and analyse games and analyse systems, and philosophies, he's certainly someone that I've looked at. I respect the way he conducts himself as well.

"I think he's now building another Liverpool team, a new Liverpool team, this year, so it will be interesting to see how they do. Liverpool are going to be up there competing in the top places in the league, there's no doubt about that.

“That's why it's going to be one of our toughest games of the season. It's Liverpool's first home game of the season, making it even more special. For us, we've got to make sure we turn up."

As a young player, Howe worked with Sean O'Driscoll, one of his predecessors at Bournemouth who this summer became Rodgers' new assistant at Anfield.

O'Driscoll was appointed to replace Liverpool's previous assistant manager Colin Pascoe after Rodgers controversially chose to reshape his coaching staff.

His arrival surprised many observers but Howe was not among them and he backed O'Driscoll to be a big success at the club.

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"It's great to see Sean doing so well and at a great club like Liverpool, so congratulations to him on that move," he said.

"I thought it was nothing more than he deserved, really, because he's an outstanding coach. It's great to see the good guys do well in football.

"O'Driscoll was probably hugely influential, without me really directly knowing it, in a sense that you're moulded by experiences and people that you work with and work for.”

Howe also said Bournemouth are not at present bidding for any players, including reported targets Charlie Austin or Jonathan de Guzman.

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