777 Partners may line up Wayne Rooney as new Everton manager if they sack Sean Dyche
With a first Premier League win over Brentford on Saturday 23 September, Sean Dyche has settled plenty of immediate doubts over his future as Everton manager.
Three points give the Toffees a bit of a gap between them and the relegation zone and will likely mean that the former Burnley boss will be in the Goodison Park dugout for the coming weeks, but that hasn’t stopped talk over his potential successor.
According to journalist Dean Jones [Give Me Sport, 22 September], the Toffees are “front of the queue” in the Premier League to appoint former striker Wayne Rooney as their new manager, should they decide to change in the coming months.
Under the ownership of Farhad Moshiri, it is unlikely that Everton will decide to part ways with Dyche as given the current owner’s reluctance to invest in the Goodison club, he is unlikely to be particularly keen to pay the Toffees’ boss to leave his position.
But with the potential takeover from 777 Partners well and truly on the cards after a deal was agreed in principle for the American investment firm to takeover Moshiri’s 94 per cent stake in the Toffees [Sky Sports, 15 September], the new owners may have a different view on who should be in charge.
Given Rooney’s standing in the American game, having impressed both as a player and a manager for DC United, the former Manchester United forward may well appeal to the American owners as a perfect fit for the manager’s position at Goodison.
The MLS season is also drawing to its conclusion, with the campaign ending on 21 October that could well prove to be the perfect time for Rooney to call time on his stay stateside as he attempts to crack England properly as a manager following his stint in charge of Derby County.
On top of that, having Rooney as your club’s manager automatically makes you a more marketable club, during his time in charge at Pride Park, the Rams were in the news more than they had ever been before due to having one of England’s top scorers at the helm.
Should 777’s takeover be approved and if Dyche’s side are still hovering in and around the relegation zone, you wouldn’t be too surprised to see Everton’s new owners decide to bring back one of the Toffees’ biggest stars of the last few decades.
But on a footballing basis, you’d have to imagine Dyche would be much better suited to guiding the Blues through a relegation battle, than the relatively inexperienced Rooney.
In other Everton news, Richard Keys has described Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s Everton return as ‘huge’ following the win over Brentford