Fabrizio Romano delivers Friday update on Sean Dyche to Everton details
Sean Dyche is on the brink of being named new Everton manager with the discussions now at the “final stages”, Fabrizio Romano reports.
The former Burnley manager had initially appeared not to be an attractive option among the Goodison Park hierarchy but, while top choice Marcelo Bielsa had a number of misgivings about taking over, Dyche was eager to take the job.
The Toffees are now close to announcing a replacement for Frank Lampard at the end of the week that he was removed, having been sacked on Monday (23 January) after the 2-0 defeat to West Ham.
Reporting on Twitter late on Friday morning (27 January) Romano wrote: “Everton are closing in on appointment of Sean Dyche as new head coach to replace Frank Lampard.
“Discussions at final stages, details now being sorted on the contract valid until June 2025.”
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When Burnley defeated Everton 3-2 at Turf Moor on 6 April last year it looked like Dyche had hammered a nail into the coffin of Lampard and the Toffees’ relegation fight.
That he would ultimately lose his Clarets job prior to them going down anyway while the Everton boss kept his side up, only to take over at Goodison Park less than a year later is some turn of events.
On the plus side, a decision appears to have been made in relatively quick time by Farhad Moshiri’s standards, so there should be a few days of the transfer window left once Dyche is in place.
It can’t go unnoticed that he was fired last season in an ultimately unsuccessful battle against the drop, so is a long way from the heights of Carlo Ancelotti just two seasons ago.
But Everton are in dire straights at the moment and Dyche’s record prior to the previous campaign was impressive at Burnley.
If he can come in and recreate a similar regime to the one which saw David Moyes punch above his weight for so long, plenty of fans would bite your hand off for that right now.