Everton's Sean Dyche statement was disrespectful and brutal reality could await new owners
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Everton's 75-word statement announcing Sean Dyche’s departure as manager was blunt and, some might say, disrespectful. Not a word of thanks for keeping them up two years running where other clubs buckled under the pressure of a relegation battle. No acknowledgement of the way Dyche steered them through two points deductions last season.
No pat on the back for saving Everton hundreds of millions of pounds that relegation would have cost. And if new owners The Friedkin Group think changing the manager will alter the script in the short term, it won’t. Everton have not won a trophy for 30 years. The glory days of Howard Kendall winning titles in the 1980s are long gone. Whether it's Dyche, David Moyes or anyone else in charge, unless they invest in the squad, especially in the attacking third of the pitch, they are going to be fighting in the lower half of the table.
THE FA CUP GIANT KILLERS: Get your special edition magazine celebrating some of the game's greatest-ever upsets. As an attacking force, this is one of the poorest Everton squads I can remember - and it's not Dyche's fault. He came in on the back end of some poor recruitment during Farhad Moshiri’s ownership of the club and had to make the most of a wafer-thin squad, especially in the final third of the pitch.
Everton are now on to their ninth permanent manager in as many years, and it’s been a largely downward spiral with Dyche picking up the tab. Yes, they are in another relegation battle and, yes, new owners often make a fresh start by changing the leadership in the dugout.
