AFC Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe has responded to Town manager Mick McCarthy’s pre-match comments regarding the Cherries’ summer spending.

McCarthy was generally complimentary towards Good Friday’s visitors in the run-up to the 1-1 draw - “I think they are the best team in the league” - but pointed out that they have paid a few significant fees, rather more cash that he has during his time with the Blues.

“They’ve spent a few quid, a few more million than I have because I don’t think I’m at that million figure anyway,” the Town boss said at Thursday’s pre-match press conference.

“They’ve got good players, Eddie Howe’s done a very good job, of course. But they have been backed. They’ve got Tokelo Rantie who’s a sub, who I think they spent £3 million on. Callum Wilson, they spent a few million on in the summer.”

After the game Howe was keen to put the record straight regarding his club’s spending, telling the Bournemouth Echo: “The only thing that irks me is when people say things that are factually incorrect. Mick likes to talk a lot about our financial dealings and it’s not my style to comment back.

“All I will say is that in the build-up to the game, he spoke about Tokelo Rantie and Callum Wilson but forgot to mention we sold Lewis Grabban and I think you have to be fair and balanced.

“Our net trading from transfer fees in the summer was zero so to suggest we have built our success on money, I don’t buy and it’s factually incorrect so I would like to put that straight.”

While McCarthy didn’t mention Grabban’s move to Norwich for a reported £3 million, later on in his press conference he made reference to the £4 million sell-on the Cherries were understood to have received when former youngster Adam Lallana moved from Southampton to Liverpool.

“I think they were the beneficiaries of the Adam Lallana deal because he’d been there as a kid and that’s been spent well,” McCarthy added.

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blueherts added 19:41 - Apr 5 Bluefeast - spot on - FFP is another Football authority exercise that is so easy to circumvent or ignore .. Only way to punish teams / owners etc with this , diving and genral behaviour is not fines - which are a joke - but points deductions - That wil soon get afew people putting their house in order ME has a published set of accounts - that ARE audited Me thinks a Russian Petrochemical billionaire sitting in Switzerland may quite have the same 'openess'!

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Kropotkin123 added 19:43 - Apr 5 So what if they've sold players. When we sold Dyer, we out spent our rivals, like Huddersfield. The money gave us that boost to progress at the right time. Just because someone puts a relative clause to your success, it doesn't mean your success is diminished. We haven't had that turn-over in money, and therefore Mick rightfully makes the comparison to keep our story in perspective. The fact that it "irks" him just highlights his own personality flaws.

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borge added 20:02 - Apr 5 Dagenhamtown, how are you defining 'non showing' in relation to Marcus Evans? He is at pretty much every home game sitting next to Charlie Woods.
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Popeye added 20:02 - Apr 5 The rumour is that in order to take kenwyne jones on loan bournemouth had to agree to pay his wages in full, apparently £35k a week! As for town's wage bill, we have been led to believe through the local press that taylor was town's top earner on £10k a week but the wage bill figure suggests town are paying some players more than that. cole skuse was rumoured to be on £18k a week at his last club before he signed for town on a free. Although wages have dropped in the championship, if true i doubt he took a £10k pay cut to sign for town. Same for berra, i bet he's on more than £10k a week having come on a free after playing for wolves

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blueherts added 20:03 - Apr 5 'Not have the openess' !!
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Fatboy added 20:13 - Apr 5 Talk about not being able to take a compliment! What irked Eddie Howe wasn't Mick's (clearly factual) statements, more that Mick had done a job on him and he is, evidently, a bad loser. Just because you've got, arguably, the best team in the league, it doesn't mean you're going to win every match. Throwing your toys out of the pram and spouting the same old, "we were the better team, we should have won" every time you drop points is rather tiresome and frankly makes you look a bit silly.

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wayway added 20:37 - Apr 5 Does it not come down to the fact that they have an owner who is prepared to back the club to the hilt. And we have Evans PLC
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tractorgrl added 20:41 - Apr 5 I made a point of looking at Eddie Howe whenever one of his players chucked themselves theatrically on the deck, he just looked at the ground/paper in his hand anywhere but at the field of play seemed embarassed.God forbid they think he's england management material.Mick is more than capable of putting little whippersnappers in their place!
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Millsey added 20:50 - Apr 5 What happened when he was at Burnley with no cash? Apart from pinching Austin :(
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airliner added 22:06 - Apr 5 Seems Eddie is really quite tuck up his own, quite conceited and full of it. Just do one and behave , you are a spoilt child
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superblue70 added 22:11 - Apr 5 Cole skuse 18k a week come on get a grip
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topguy added 22:12 - Apr 5 The lack of investment over the years has always been mentioned and imo I think football was fairer years ago but then the rich owners got bored and decided to buy clubs and make life much harder when you see clubs flaunting FFP rules like Liverpool and stoke being awarded fines that sound a lot but in comparison to the benefits of staying in the prem by breaking rules surprised everyone aint doing it, just makes getting or keeping better players harder for clubs out of the top flight. I can see a time when promotion will only be a one season wonder you could say that 2 thirds are going to nearly always be in the prem in future then we have 4 or 5 clubs going for the title every year, look at the championship, leagues 1 and 2 the top 8 to 10 are so much closer and changes nearly every year. So until uefa and the fa decide that FFP means if you break the rules you will be punished and not asked to give them a few quid to give each other as bonuses It would have to be point deductions imagine fining Utd or City or even Madrid if they got fined for buying success as supporters is what happens what may of been a better way would be to limit clubs to a total amount a club can spend they say Utd has say 150 million to spend next season but once spent they would and will spend more I say instead of FFP say no club can spend more than 50 - 100 million per season that would limit prices and make it fairer long winded I know.

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thebeat added 22:58 - Apr 5 Howe is a top manager but will end up being hated by all other fans apart from whomever he is managing if hes not careful. He cries like a baby especially when teams dont roll over and die against Bournemouthlona.
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arablue added 00:46 - Apr 6 Ahhh...he does truly care what mick has got to say about him and his team...
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runningout added 07:36 - Apr 6 who really should be bothered how many pennies they have spent...
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KiwiBlue2 added 10:40 - Apr 6 No doubt the FFP thing will come out later, in the meantime I would just let Howe and his team continue their ducking and diving while we continue to put in honest effort........ .........
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Bergholtblue added 10:42 - Apr 6 Don't know what Howe's beef is. Mick isn't saying that he has spent money that he hasn't got or that he is being bailed out by the Chairman. He is simply saying that millions have been spent on a couple of players. That is fact. Where the money came from is irrelevant.
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phillo added 11:43 - Apr 6 Why do people continue to criticise Evans !??! We JUST scrape under FFP and he puts in the maximum owners funding he can ......... so how could he do more ? The only way we can increase our "spend" is to sell someone (& truly what candidates do we have ?), increase income - by increasing gate take ....... so that's up to us "loyal" fans then - or break FFP (which I believe Bournemouth must be doing) & is anyone truly saying we should do tbat !!! ME has saved this club from financial ruin,is working to stabilise the year on year financial picture AND got us in a position where we MIGHT make the financial nirvana of the the premiership. Yes there have been/still are mistakes ........ but do we want to be a Blackpool or Portsmouth who gambled ......... & lost ? Personally I'd take the current approach every time even with the frustrations it may generate ........ because wont the rewards be so much sweeter 😊

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pointofblue added 13:22 - Apr 6 Ouch, did Mick touch a nerve by chance? I think he was getting sick of the 'poor little Bournemouth' line peddled in the press and quite rightly too. Just because they made a lot doesn't offset the fact they spent a lot so what Howe's come back with is rubbish. Earlier in the season I had everything crossed Bournemouth would go up. After their gamesmanship, cynicism and whinging I'd almost prefer it if Norwich pipped them to the post.

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