Rose relishing Europe challenge as he reveals impressive knowledge of Cherries

MARCO Rose is relishing the challenge of taking the Cherries into European football for the first time, as the boss revealed a detailed knowledge of the club’s past as he joins this summer.

Rose said there will be discussions with president of football operations Tiago Pinto over the squad and its readiness to compete on both European and domestic fronts, but he knows the club have a brilliant opportunity to show what they can do on both stages.

"That's getting our challenge to play Premier League, the toughest competition in the world and European football," Rose told AFCB TV.

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"If you have to bring it together, it's really hard and really tough.

"We need to be smart. We have to talk about the squad with Tiago and it's going to be an exciting journey.

AFC Bournemouth President of Football Operations Tiago Pinto at the City Ground, Nottingham. (Image: Mike Egerton/PA Wire)

"And I think it's a really big and beautiful opportunity for us to show our club, to show Bournemouth in Europe.

"But on the other side, yeah, it's going to be a tough challenge."

Rose knows just how far the club have come in recent decades, from the bottom of the Football League, to reaching the Premier League and then qualifying for Europe.

"I've heard many things about the history of the club," he said.

"I've heard about the problems in the '90s, that the club didn't know where to train.

"They trained on school grass, in parks or something like this.

"I've heard about the Winter Gardens nights where fans tried to help it to survive, make the club survive with collecting money, kids collected money.

"I've heard about Steve Fletcher and saw his celebration of his goal.

"Really impressive man, and he's still in the club, that's what I've heard.

"So it's unbelievable if you see what happened the last 10, 15 years.

"Of course, I know that Eddie Howe was a very important person in the history of the club because he kept the club in the League One, and then they promoted into the Championship and in the Premier League.

"And Andoni [Iraola] made it possible to play in Europe, I think this was the goal of Bill [Foley] when he started here.

"Now we have to continue this work, hard work, but we should enjoy this journey as well."