Eddie Howe

He's not going in there as a child who's going to sit in the academy for a couple of years.

I can imagine he's going in there to...

to play and the level at which that will be is obviously a point of contention as to how good the Scottish league actually is.

It is a league where you could go and play, it's a team where you can go and play especially if someone like Kieran Bowie does leave.

Going in January maybe that's another thing with him where it gives him a couple of months to settle and next season is where you see what he gets on.

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I've been pleased.

I still feel there's more to come from him.

I think he's an outstanding player and I think he can deliver great things for us.

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Hard work, good organisation, always going to the end, never giving up, trying to do the crowd justice, representing the club in the right way.

I think these are all values that he stood for and he wanted teams to fully commit to the crowd and to give everything on a match day.

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It's a body blow for us but not fatal at the moment and we're still in there fighting I think maybe a bit of naivety with a minute to go on the clock that we're still trying to chase a goal in that moment we need to defend I thought the lads gave everything today under difficult circumstances with the extra time on Saturday and there was a bit of fatigue in our performance but I can't fault the players.

The natural preference is for the home game to be the second leg because you have a clear understanding of what you need to do and you have the home crowd with you.

This is going to be a totally different one.

I think Manchester City are the hardest team to play over two legs in the country.

Pep, I'm sure, will tactically have something ready for us.