Everton have found a successor to Frank Lampard in Sean Dyche. The number nineteen in the Premier League announced the appointment of the trainer on Monday afternoon through the official channels.
A week ago, two days after the 2-0 defeat at West Ham United, Lampard was sacked by Everton. Dyche’s name quickly circulated as a possible successor, but Marcelo Bielsa seemed to be the prime candidate. According to The Guardian, the Argentinian is not yet sure whether he should work at a club that has worn out six managers in seven years. He would also wonder whether the selection of The Toffees is capable of playing the football that Bielsa likes to show, especially now that there will be little time to sharpen patterns due to relegation concerns.
In the end, the talks with Bielsa would have collapsed for various reasons. He was concerned about the squad’s lack of pace as his style of play demands it, and did not want to join in the middle of a season. That is why he devised a separate construction.
Broken negotiations with Marcelo Bielsa
The trainer planned to work with the Under-21 and Everton youth academy until the summer, according to The Athletic. His eight-man coaching staff, meanwhile, should lead the first team to retention in the Premier League. Club owner Farhad Moshiri saw little of that plan and broke off the negotiations.
Dyche is up for the challenge. The 51-year-old Englishman has been unemployed since his resignation from Burnley in April 2022. He had been with the club since 2012 and had a tumultuous tenure, guiding Burnley to the Premier League (2014), relegation (2015) and return. at the highest level (2016). His most impressive performance came in the 2017/18 season, when Burnley finished seventh and returned to European football for the first time since 1966/67.
Dyche was the longest-serving manager in the Premier League when he was sent off in April 2022. At the time of his dismissal, Burnley was in eighteenth place. Dyche was very popular with the club’s supporters and his spell was one of the most successful in club history. He now has the task of saving Everton from relegation. The gap with the virtually safe number seventeen Wolverhampton Wanderers is two points.
