The Friedkins would prefer not to sack him for a million reasons, not least the squeeze it would put on Everton’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) position, which is tight enough for the club to be looking predominantly at loan moves if they can’t move players on to free up financial headroom.
deally they would like to take stock of the situation before hiring a new coach, with sources pointing to the summer as a time to “reset everything” with so many players out of contract and turning a page on their financial issues.
With Dyche and Kevin Thelwell’s deals up, any major changes would make more sense then.
They can run a proper process, informed by evidence and observations of how the club is run, before deciding the right man for the future.
The optics of new owners who have run into trouble at Roma for being too trigger-happy with coaches immediately sacking the manager at Everton might be problematic for their reputation, too.
But all of that mitigation will surely go out of the window if Dyche is unable to navigate the club into a more productive run of results.
Because – let’s be brutally honest – the football is so one-dimensional that it can only be justified by results.
The view of one senior Premier League executive is instructive.
Without Dyche, he argues, they might have less points. lol
