Relegation-threatened Everton sacked supervisor Sean Dyche on Thursday, hours earlier than the Premier League membership have been as a result of play their FA Cup third-round tie towards Peterborough at Goodison Park.
Everton are sixteenth within the standings after 19 video games, some extent above the drop zone. They haven’t received a recreation since beating Wolverhampton Wanderers in early December, a winless run of 5 matches.
With Dyche’s backroom employees additionally leaving, Everton mentioned Below-18s head coach Leighton Baines and membership captain Seamus Coleman would take cost of the primary group on an interim foundation.
Membership assertion.
— Everton (@Everton) January 9, 2025
“Everton Soccer Membership can verify that Sean Dyche has been relieved of his duties as senior males’s first group supervisor with speedy impact,” the membership mentioned in an announcement.
“Ian Woan, Steve Stone, Mark Howard and Billy Mercer have additionally left the membership. The method to nominate a brand new Supervisor is underway and an replace might be supplied sooner or later.”
Everton have been taken over by new house owners, the Friedkin Group, in December and Dyche had mentioned that he had their assist earlier than their type nosedived.
He was additionally unperturbed by reviews of the house owners in search of a brand new supervisor this week, saying succession planning ought to be part of their due diligence. His final recreation in cost was Saturday’s 1-0 loss at Bournemouth.
Dyche is the sixth Premier League supervisor to get the sack this season and the second in as many days after West Ham United changed Julen Lopetegui with Graham Potter.
The 53-year-old joined Everton in January 2023, changing Frank Lampard once they have been within the relegation zone. A nervy 1-0 win on the ultimate day of the season preserved their place within the high flight.
The English supervisor additionally ensured they stayed within the Premier League final yr regardless of two factors deductions for breaching the league’s Profitability and Sustainability Guidelines which took away eight factors, with Everton ending fifteenth.
Nonetheless, the present marketing campaign obtained off to a dismal begin with Everton shedding their first 4 league video games.
A five-match unbeaten run gave the membership’s followers hope of turning issues round, however they’ve received solely three Premier League video games this season and one in all their final 11 fixtures because the house owners ran out of persistence.
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