Sean Dyche has given further insight into Everton’s recent change in manager to David Moyes
Sean Dyche has opened up on a brutally honest chat with Everton chiefs before leaving Goodison Park last month. The former Toffees manager spoke about a chat with his replacement David Moyes as the transition of power took place in January, expressing pride with the foundations he helped lay for recent great form.
Dyche took over midway through the 2022/23 campaign and oversaw safety from relegation that year. What followed was a year wrought with issues around past financial rule breaking the points deductions that would come as a result, but again the manager’s steely determination helped see Everton through to another year in the Premier League.
Once those problems were aside, it just became evident he was struggling to take this club beyond that of bottom-three evaders so the new Blues ownership undertook their first big decision with a change of coaches.
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“Moyesy who I admire a lot, I think he’s a fantastic manager and a good bloke as well, spoke to him and told him there’s a lot of good there,” said Dyche of a behind-the-scenes call the pair had, talking on his maiden appearance for his new weekly talkSPORT show this Sunday lunchtime.
“Spoke to him as well, by the way, very open about that. I told him there’s a lot of good there, and I’m delighted for him, I’m delighted they’re going well.
“People say ‘you must be disappointed they’re doing well’, but after two years of grafting out why would I want them to struggle? Why would I want failure?
“I wouldn’t want it to do anything else other than be successful. There’s not a single bone in my body of any resentment, any anger, nothing like being gutted they’re doing well. I wish them well.”
The 53-year-old also detailed his brutally honest chat with director of football Kevin Thelwell when recognising that he must be the one to step aside if Everton were to progress beyond the point he had helped reach.
And with that, Dyche expressed a tremendous amount of pride with what was achieved during his two-year stint at the Goodison Park helm weighing that against critics who may say otherwise.
“I was really positive about it when I left and I still am,” Dyche added. “People only see what they see and that’s fine, fans don’t understand the amount that we had to do behind the scenes.
“Not just me, by the way, my staff, Kev Thelwell, all worked very hard with the powers that be at the club as well. There was a lot needed doing and another thing I need to be clear about is when you talk about the club being took over, people presuppose it is managers and all that. I’m not questioning managers, everyone has their own style and their own way of doing things, but there was a lot that needed correcting.
“I’m not just talking about on the pitch, I mean all sorts needed corrected. I went in there with an idea thinking ‘it was this’, and it wasn’t – it was miles away from what I thought it was, in a lot worse shape as I must keep making it clear.
“So overall, people externally can measure it differently and – I’ve always been a bit Marmite anyway – there’ll be that split of Evertonians who go ‘yeah, but look at the job he did and the bigger picture’, and others who go ‘yeah, but we weren’t playing this way and that way’.
“That’s fine, but if they knew the depth of what we did – not just me, the players included and all the challenges we went through, goodness me I’d be surprised if as many of them would say we didn’t do at least a half decent job.
“The bigger picture I am proud of what a collective of people achieved all pushing to make sure the club was at least safe. I left it in good hands, left it in good shape, said that already and got battered for it.
“It is, Moyesy’s taken over, he knows it and gave me a shout out about it.”
