Sean Dyche sack decision a ‘valid concern’ at Everton as Farhad Moshiri ‘capital injection’ stance verdict issued
It is a “valid concern” at Everton that sacking Sean Dyche might be too expensive even if the bad results continue, according to Paul Brown.
Speaking to GIVEMESPORT (20 September) the former Daily Star journalist said “it is a fact” that the club are “struggling” to pay the bills on time each month so without a “capital injection” from the owner a change might be impossible, as Farhad Moshiri appears unwilling to provide such an injection any longer.
Everton have started the season with one point from a possible 15, scoring in only one of their five Premier League matches so far.
Brown said: “It is a fact that Everton are struggling to keep paying their bills on time every month and sacking Dyche would obviously cost quite a lot of money. It’s hard to see how you’d be able to do that without some sort of capital injection from the owner.
“And it doesn’t look like the owner is willing to do that. Because he’s obviously trying to sell and get out as quickly as possible. So it may be that Dyche survives even if Everton’s run gets worse simply because they might find it too expensive to sack him at this point in time. That is a valid concern.”
Safe by default
At this stage, with the mooted sale of the club from Moshiri to 777 Partners pending, it feels like the only way Dyche is removed is if his presence somehow threatens the takeover.
He simply isn’t the sort of manager to rock the boat in such a way as to destabilise the situation deliberately, and results could hardly get much worse, so it is logical that he stays in place at least until there is an answer one way or another on the ownership.
Once it is clear who is taking the club forward from the top the question will presumably be back on the table, but 777 Partners are thought to be satisfied with Dyche and Kevin Thelwell [The Athletic, 18 September] so unless the situation is utterly dismal over the next three months they both may be afforded a honeymoon period anyway.
Should the takeover not go through for any reason then the issue of Moshiri being unwilling or unable to plow more money into the club, after the £750million he is thought to have spent during his time in charge, will remain a key issue.
The problem, in addition to the cost, is who would currently take the Everton job that is a genuine candidate to improve the situation.
If Moshiri remains in charge then any manager would know he wants out as soon as the opportunity arises so their situation was liable to change.
So on paper it does look like a takeover needs to go through before a managerial change is viable, both from an internal and external perspective.
Dyche is operating in a pretty impossible situation but he should be producing more than he has so far this term, and it looks like he is likely to get the time to do so.
In other Everton news, Moshiri is claimed to have previously rejected a low-cost financing solution for the stadium when it was available as not widely known information emerges.