Everton: Sean Dyche holds Finch Farm talks over sack calls after Farhad Moshiri washes hands
Everton: Sean Dyche holds Finch Farm talks over sack calls after Farhad Moshiri washes hands
According to Dom King, Sean Dyche has held “frank meetings” at Everton’s training field this week about
his own prospective termination and has stated unequivocally that he would not follow in the footsteps of his predecessors.
On April 19, a Daily Mail journalist stated on the paper’s website that there is “no leadership” at the top of the club,
with owner Farhad Moshiri “seemingly having washed his hands of interest” while he attempts to sell the club to 777 Partners.
So, with the form on the pitch beginning to mimic that of Frank Lampard and Rafael Benitez before him,
Dyche has held conversations with his team at Finch Farm describing his refusal to collapse into a cycle of replacing
whoever is in the dugout in search of a new-manager bounce.
He told the media before of the important match against fellow points-deducted side Nottingham Forest on Sunday (21 April):
“I have obviously discussed this with the players. (I said) Is this just a cycle you’re going through?
“You want a new manager, you get a new manager and a bounce, and everyone goes,
‘Hurrah!’ Then, six months later, it’s “Boo!” We want him out! Do you just keep doing that? Is that where we are now?
I do not mind telling you this since people want to know the truth.
If the supporters want this to happen, so be it. I am fighting. I am not blaming anyone.
I’ve never done that in my career and I’m not going to start now’.”
Everton manager unwilling to accept Goodison Park exit risk.
Dyche can justifiably point to a pair of point deductions that have artificially impacted his team’s league status, but he can’t deny that the form has been poor since the beginning of 2024.
The 6-0 defeat to Chelsea on Monday was arguably the low point of a dismal run in which he has only won once this calendar year, against former club Burnley in a game that was ugly enough to leave fans anything but uplifted and was decided by a fortuitous goal from Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
So, whether Everton were eight points better off and sitting comfortably in 14th place,
or where they are now – 16th and two points from the relegation zone, albeit with a game in hand –
he will not be surprised that he is under increasing pressure from a fanbase that has had little to celebrate in months.
However, because Moshiri appears to be just interested in selling the club for the time being,
although only to 777 regardless of how long they continue to require it, Dyche is likely safe any way.
Even if a higher authority was willing to make the choice to get rid of him amid the ownership standstill,
it is highly dubious that it would be economical during amid a miserable financial situation, and then who would replace him?
In principle, David Moyes may return in the summer because to his emotional ties to the club,
but only if West Ham let him go at the conclusion of his contract, and most likely only if the takeover is completed by then.
But, until then, fans are unsurprisingly expecting more from a squad that won without conceding a goal against Forest,
Newcastle, Chelsea, and Burnley in December,
but after completely turning the tables on them at Stamford Bridge,
it appears that he has shifted the focus back to the players.
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