SEAN DYCHE HAS been sacked as Everton manager, the club have announced.
The Toffees have won just one of their last 11 Premier League matches under Dyche.
Everton confirmed that under-18s head coach Leighton Baines and club captain Seamus Coleman would take charge of first-team affairs on an interim basis, starting with tonight’s FA Cup tie against Peterborough at Goodison Park.
The club’s new owners, the Friedkin Group, will now begin the hunt for Dyche’s successor, with former Chelsea and Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho having already been linked with the position.
Dyche took charge at Everton in January 2023, having had a near 10-year stint as Burnley boss between October 2012 and April 2022.
The Toffees survived relegation at the end of the 2022-23 season by just two points.
Everton also overcame an eight-point penalty for breaches of the league’s profitability and sustainability rules to finish 15th last season.
Everton said members of Dyche’s backroom team Ian Woan, Steve Stone, Mark Howard and Billy Mercer had also left the club.
Mourinho has emerged as an early contender to succeed Dyche. The Portuguese is currently with Turkish club Fenerbahce but has expressed interest in returning to the English game.
He also has experience of working with the Friedkin Group at Roma, although the Italian club sacked him just under a year ago.
David Moyes, who managed Everton between 2002 and 2013 before leaving to become Sir Alex Ferguson’s successor at Manchester United, has also been linked with a return to Goodison.
Did he keep them up last year
@frank walsh: no they were relegated but the sorting hat at start of season dropped their name into wrong pile sand no one bothered fix it
@frank walsh: It’s a trick question, isn’t it? Let me think about it and get back to you.
@frank walsh: No, they were relegated.
My god, it’s all happening today.
Hon Seamus. Dyche is yesterday’s man, another overrated english manager.
Dyche was an old school manager an in my opinion Everton have made a big mistake getting rid of him…he done what he could what is a bad group of players
Please, not Mourinho
@Declan Burke: why don’t they go for another pool reject, Rodgers. He’d only happily drop Celtic like a hot snot a second time as soon as a premier league also ran come calling.
@Setanta O’Toole: Because Rodgers is not good enough
@Declan Burke: neither was Dyche.
@Declan Burke: Rodgers is better than anyone they’ve had in quite a while.
@Setanta O’Toole: So would I.
@ecrowley ecrowley: better than Ancelotti ?
Moyes until the end of the season and then go after Bournemouth manager, Iraola, in the Summer. Everton job will be very attractive and sought after, at the start of next season, assuming they are still a PL club. Dyche was never really the right fit for the club.
@Rory O’Connor: you know there are other managers in world football besides English based ones, Galtier Allegri, Terzic…..no, let’s give it Moyes, only a few weeks ago he literally states he didn’t want a relegation battle or a short term deal, leave him where he is, I hope these owners have more of a scope on who could become manager than you.
@Rory O’Connor: i don’t think it’s that attractive tbh. They are only topped in the basket case stakes by Man Utd.
@Brian I: Wow, thanks for the footballing geography lesson! I’d never have known that otherwise. Moyes already in talks so it appears the owners see it the same way I did but hey ho, Brian knows best. Believe it or not when a club is in a relegation battle then they almost always go for a manager with PL experience. It’s not time for experimenting now with the new owners, huge investment and new ground all in place. I think I’ll keep relying on my own experience but thanks for your insight anyway.
@Rory O’Connor: fair enough, it’ll be interesting to see if he gets it … Three weeks after saying he has no time for a relegation battle or a short term deal….I hope he doesn’t get it, and he definitely won’t be getting it to keep the seat warm for Iraola as you’ve suggested.
I am one of the lucky people to know Seamus personally and I can tell you for a fact that he is more than ready to take on this challenge. He is determined, resilient, visionary and not to mention one of the finest men I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. So to all you haters and so called “fans”, just you wait and see because Seimi will be waiting in the long grass. A true WARRIOR!
@Richard Parker: calm down lad, Seamus is a top bloke but he was assistant manager for a game, hopefully he gets to play a couple of games before his contract is finished and then he can proceed with the coaching lark, he definitely has all the attributes to be a great one, a great bloke, hopefully his body allows him a couple more good games before the seasons out but I can’t see his playing contract being renewed
Perhaps they’re about to become Steven Gerrard’s Everton. Or Wayne Rooney’s Everton.
I know the pay is seriously handy, but it all gets a little bit more Game of Thrones every season
@Gerry Kelly: Wayne Rooney lol
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