With Manchester United's Ruben Amorim under pressure, former Everton manager Sean Dyche has been backed to replace him at Old Trafford
Former Everton manager Sean Dyche has been backed to take up a shock appointment at Manchester United.
Dyche, who was previously in charge of Burnley for almost a decade, replaced Frank Lampard as Blues boss on January 30, 2023, and narrowly steered the club to safety at the end of that season as – despite posting the lowest equivalent points total in their history – they avoided a first relegation in 72 years thanks to a single Abdoulaye Doucoure goal against Bournemouth on the final day.
The Kettering-born gaffer then kept Everton’s heads above water again in 2023/24, despite an unprecedented brace of points deductions for PSR breaches, but was sacked at the midway point of their final season at Goodison Park on January 9 this year after picking up just 17 points from the first 19 matches, leaving the team just a point above the drop zone.
Such has been Manchester United’s fall from grace though, with the most-successful club of the Premier League era – who won 13 titles under Sir Alex Ferguson – that having finished 15th last season on just 42 points, some six points behind the Blues following their revival under David Moyes, a report this week in the Mirror claimed that beleaguered boss Ruben Amorim now has just three games to save his job. As the pressure builds at Old Trafford following Sunday’s 3-0 thrashing to ‘noisy neighbours’ Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium, a report by Goodison News cites a caller on talkSPORT put forward Dyche’s name as a candidate to solve the Red Devils' crisis.
The 54-year-old had already been suggested last month by former Premier League striker Charlie Austin who played under him at Turf Moor and hosts Jamie O’Hara and Jason Cundy refused to rule out the surprise link for a job that has already seen off the likes of Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Erik ten Hag – and Moyes. O’Hara, who played Premier League football for Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth and Wolverhampton Wanderers, said: “Dyche? I think Dyche would probably do a good job.”
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Co-host Cundy, who turned out for the likes of Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Crystal Palace in his home city of London responded: “Don’t knock Dyche. Don’t knock Sean Dyche. Don’t knock him.”
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O’Hara then added: “Sean Dyche would take the Manchester United job 100 per cent.
“I don’t care what my agent says, if I were Sean Dyche and Man United phoned me and said: ‘Will you take the job to the end of the season, if you do well, we’ll potentially give you the job. That’s based on whether you do well or not.’ It can’t get any worse for Man United.”
Such is the often surreal nature of football’s managerial merry-go-round, Dyche is also being linked with the Wrexham job where Phil Parkinson is facing the heat after a slow start in the Championship following a £33million summer spend, despite steering the Welsh club to a hat-trick of successive promotions. Also, this week, gambling.com listed Dyche as the 3/1 favourite to be next manager of Rangers where his former Everton director of football Kevin Thelwell is under pressure to fire new boss Russell Martin who has failed to win any of his first five Scottish Premiership matches in charge while also presiding over an embarrassing 9-1 aggregate loss to Belgians Club Brugge in the Champions League play-offs.