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Everton manager Sean Dyche (Credit: Imago)
Zak Anderton
Fri 20 December 2024 16:55, UK
Phil McNulty thinks the Friedkin Group will give an indication on Sean Dyche’s future with how active Everton are in the January transfer window.
Now that The Friedkin Group have finally completed their takeover of the Toffees, their plans for the future of the Merseyside outfit can, at last, be put into place.
The topic of where Dyche’s future lies has been on the tip of most fans and pundits’ tongues since it was announced that the American businessmen performed a dramatic U-turn [Bloomberg, 17 September] and chose to go back in and purchase the club from Farhad Moshiri.
With Dyche’s contract set to expire at the end of the season, BBC chief McNulty believes the upcoming transfer window will be a lot more telling about his future.
“Of more immediate interest will be the impact on manager Sean Dyche and director of football Kevin Thelwell, with their contracts up at the end of the season. The January transfer window will be the first indicator of the new direction,” he wrote on the BBC Sport website (19 December).
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“Friedkin showed his ambition at AS Roma by appointing – then subsequently sacking – Jose Mourinho, although this was also a period that brought their first major European trophy in the shape of the Europa Conference League in 2022.
“For now, though, Everton supporters will be breathing more easily as they ponder what the new Friedkin-led era will bring.”
The Friedkin Group should keep Sean Dyche at Everton until the end of the season
The future of Dyche at Everton has been a question mooted by all those involved with the Merseyside outfit since the start of the season.
But, with the overarching questions surrounding who the Toffees’ new owners would be and when they’d eventually get in, both Dyche and Kevin Thelwell have been kept in their roles.
This season it feels like Dyche’s men are once again going to be dragged into a Premier League relegation battle and seen as though the 53-year-old is seen as a survival specialist, it doesn’t feel like there’s a better man for the task at hand.
Everton Sean Dyche
Everton manager Sean Dyche
He carried the Goodison Park outfit through one of their toughest seasons in recent memory last term, so if anything, he should still have some credit left from that stored in the bank.
Only time will tell what the Friedkins choose to do over the remainder of the campaign but at the moment, it feels like they’d be silly to get rid of Dyche before the season reaches its end.
In other Everton news, Alan Myers has shared a challenge that The Friedkin Group will face now that they own the Toffees.
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