SEAN DYCHE is not the sort of person to just give up and walk out on a club. I know the man well — he was my manager at Watford for the 2011-12 campaign. He’s got class. When he was sacked in July 2012, he left in difficult circumstances but still fronted it, said thanks to everybody.
![[Sean Dyche, Everton manager, looking distressed.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/28-09-2024-everton-manager-962622507.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
He even managed to get a message to me and I was in prison at the time. Even when he left Burnley, he said his goodbyes in the proper way — he didn’t shirk away, hide and run off into the night without letting everybody know. He’s a proud man too. He’s never going to admit that he can’t do something.
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I’ve heard suggestions he had talks with new owners The Friedkin Group and told them he taken the club as far as he could. I don’t buy it. It sounds like PR bluffing to me. And he would not decide to walk out on a club on the morning of a game, without the players even knowing when they turned up to take on Peterborough in the FA Cup on Thursday night.
![[Sean Dyche and Troy Deeney in conversation.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/burnley-manager-sean-dyche-conversation-791316101.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
If he is going into a meeting knowing that he’s going to get the sack, he is still going to say goodbye to the lads. BEST FREE BET SIGN UP OFFERS FOR UK BOOKMAKERS. So for this to happen, out of nowhere, it doesn’t feel right. You’re talking about a man’s character and principles here.
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I reckon there has been a bit of a to-do at the training ground — about where each party sees things and how the future looks. I can hazard a guess that these owners told him he can’t say his goodbyes in the way he would have wanted to. Just leave, sort it out and stay away from everyone.
