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2024/25 Sean Dyche - Sacked

As someone who “knows football”, please feel free to enlighten us on what we’re missing about 30% career win ratio, twice relegated Sean Dyche’s clearly successful footballing philosophy.

We've got a relegation squad, we've had points deductions, he kept us up when we were doomed to fail.

We're a basketcase of a club with a toxic fanbase and uncertain financial conditions. Nobody will touch us.
 
With this manager, it's impossible to know, we've been gaslit into accepting 17th as our level.
So Benitez and Lampard were blips too?

Or have we been asset stripped for 5 years and Dyche is the symptom, not the cause, of the problem.

He’s said it himself, a reasonably well ran Everton go nowhere near him.

Moshiri destroyed us, hopefully TFG can rebuild but this is not on Dyche.

We’ve been a mess for half of Silva’s tenure, half of Koeman, part of Carlo, Lampard, Benitez. We even had ‘big Sam’ ffs.

This has led us all the way down to this crap point in our history where Sean f’ing Dyche is managing our last season at Goodison with a squad that Magaye f’ing Gueye strolls into and Djibril Sidibe is our best full back.
 

Those players walk into our team, and they were just off the top of my head. I’d say we’re better than Ipswich, Leicester, Saints. On a par with Wolves and Palace. That’s about it mate.

Anyone getting tenth with this shower this year would be doing a ridiculous job.
I agree we aren't going to finish 10th but I said 12th was best case scenario with new manager and a few January recruits. Hardly outlandish considering we would have finished there last year but for point deductions.
 
So Benitez and Lampard were blips too?

Or have we been asset stripped for 5 years and Dyche is the symptom, not the cause, of the problem.

He’s said it himself, a reasonably well ran Everton go nowhere near him.

Moshiri destroyed us, hopefully TFG can rebuild but this is not on Dyche.

We’ve been a mess for half of Silva’s tenure, half of Koeman, part of Carlo, Lampard, Benitez. We even had ‘big Sam’ ffs.

This has led us all the way down to this crap point in our history where Sean f’ing Dyche is managing our last season at Goodison with a squad that Magaye f’ing Gueye strolls into and Djibril Sidibe is our best full back.
That's a lot of dribble and stepping around the fact that potentially this team is better than 17th and proved that last season.
 
If we were to add in a better striker and another winger like Ndiaye, I think we would have a side fit to fight for a top half finish - but not under Dyche.
If we had a better striker and a proper winger we might not be thinking of a new manager. Maybe our recent managers all cling to this negative tentative crappy way of playing because we don’t have those threats. Dom has missed chances this season that could have changed results. Having pace on the right and maybe when Bournmouth etc went for the Hail Mary we would have scored 2 more on the break.

Just playing devils advocate. I agree, but don’t like assuming how Dyche or any manager would play if we had a proper balanced squad - we haven’t had for a decade.

Whilst the squad is turd, it’s never been as bad as the last few managers have made it. There are teams a dozen points clear of us that if any one of their players was linked to us we’d moan. Dyche is just another one seemingly so terrified of losing he can’t work out ways to win.

Ange seemingly has the polar opposite problem, with a squad with far more talent.
 

That's a lot of dribble and stepping around the fact that potentially this team is better than 17th and proved that last season.
I’d say it’s 15-20th, about where we are.

Are we stronger than last year? Most teams are. Including the three that came up.

We get worse each summer, we’re circling the plughole due to recruitment mistakes and thankfully we’ve had the takeover just in time it seems. Hopefully that means we can get a couple of bodies in this window. I’ve heard otherwise though.
 

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