Before this thread is moved, can we change the thread title please? He wasnt sacked, he quit cos he was plop.
Earlier this week, manager Sean Dyche informed the club’s hierarchy that he had taken the team as far as he could. Dyche did not go as far as to formally resign — that would have had financial ramifications with his £5million-a-year ($6.2m) deal due to expire at the end of the season.
But wearied by a turbulent couple of years that saw points deductions, relegation battles and near-constant speculation over the future of the club, the 53-year-old made clear his view that his methods were no longer having the same impact.
The message was that he felt his players, consciously or otherwise, had stopped responding to his methods and that he was no longer the man to take the club on.
The last few years at Goodison have ground everyone down, including him.
TFG had arrived at Everton with the idea that Dyche, increasingly under pressure from fans over his seeming inability to avert a fourth successive relegation fight and one-dimensional tactics, would likely see out his contract — and therefore the season — before making a change.
He had been backed, publicly and in private meetings on TFG’s arrival. Key decision-makers in Houston, where the company has its headquarters, had seen him dig the club out of holes before and initially believed he could do so again.
But Dyche’s comments forced TFG to act. Even on the new ownership’s side, there is an acceptance that the eventual timing of his departure, hours before Thursday’s
FA Cup game against Peterborough United of England’s third tier, was far from ideal. It came, though, after protracted talks, held over a couple of days, over his compensation package.
