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Escalator wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 5:50 pm Dan Friedkin - “So Sean, things are looking pretty grim, what do you have to say about it ?”

Dyche - “you don’t understand, if we’d won a few more games things would be looking much better”

Friedkin “get the fuck out and don’t let the door slam on yer arse”

Fuck Dyche, hope he ends up at Burnley.
He can get the players out on the graaaas for as long as he likes putting in the hard yards whilst working on the nuts n' bolts.

sam of the south wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:01 pm

I think this is my favourite quote in the entire Office. It's just fantastic.

Robioto wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:03 pm I think this is my favourite quote in the entire Office. It's just fantastic.

It’s pretty special.

In all honesty I would actually prefer us to be managed by Richard Blackwood rather than Sean Dyche.

I mean, it's everything we're asking for from TFG and EFC

Trowel wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:10 pm I mean, it's everything we're asking for from TFG and EFC

Can anyone paste the article?

Trowel wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:10 pm I mean, it's everything we're asking for from TFG and EFC

Copy and paste if poss?

Everton want to make a swift appointment after firing Sean Dyche following a three-day stand-off over the former manager’s exit.

Dyche has exited after telling the club that he had taken them as far as he could.

The i Paper understands that the Friedkin Group held a meeting with Dyche on Monday following the weekend’s dispiriting defeat against Bournemouth with the intention of supporting him and finding out ways to back him in the January transfer market.

But Dyche indicated to them that he done everything in his power at the club – although stopped short of resigning.

Three days of negotiations over a severance have followed but it is understood that the Friedkins have driven a hard bargain and the eventual severance is some way short of the full amount Dyche would have been due, with bonuses, if he had been fired.

Dyche delivered a strange press conference on Wednesday in which he acknowledged there was succession planning going on at Everton and indicated that he did not have any problem with the Friedkins looking at alternatives.

In the event the final decision has come just a few hours before kick off of Everton’s third-round FA Cup tie with Peterborough United – strange timing but reflective of a difficult week for the club, who are now seeking to make a quick appointment.

The Friedkins’ tough negotiating tactics will send a message that Everton should no longer be viewed as a soft touch by agents, coaches or players – with the new owners intent on changing the culture at Goodison Park.

There has been an air of inevitability about Dyche’s departure for weeks but the Friedkins’ initial instinct had been to back the manager partly as an acknowledgement of his fine work keeping the club in the Premier League in difficult circumstances, and also because they want to take a longer term view of how to move things forward.

But the reality – acknowledged by the owners – is that Everton’s performances have not been good enough and Dyche lost the fans with his ugly brand of football which was no longer yielding results.

They had held talks with Graham Potter to assess his suitability to the role but sources say those links were “overblown” and that he was already in advanced talks with West Ham, who have subsequently appointed the former Chelsea boss. There is a feeling that Everton’s name has been used as leverage when interest was lukewarm at best.

The i Paper has been told there has been some communication with Paulo Fonseca although there has been no formal approach.

It is understood that the Friedkins are considering reappointing David Moyes, who is available, knows the club and may even be open to rejoining on an initial short-term basis to secure survival.

There will be little sympathy for Dyche on Merseyside but he and his coaching staff leave feeling they fulfilled their remit in the hardest of circumstances. Everton escaped relegation despite a points deduction last season and he rescued them from the brink in his first season at the club.

But his credit has diminished this season with a series of spiky press conferences in which he has excused the lack of ambition on the field and appeared to suggest the club’s supporters are difficult to please.

There will be relief among some members of the dressing room too, who were in favour of a more expansive, attacking style rather than the defensive way he set Everton up.

Also says a lot about Dyche that he didn't want to take one last match. Must have behaved abhorrently.

Reads to me like he knew he was gone end of the season and didn't want the risk of a relegation on his CV. Basically resigned but wanted a payout.

I dont really dislike him (hate his football though). He did a good job for 18 months given the circumstances but things have truly gone to shit this season and the football is truly abysmal.

Looking forward to what's next.

It's the classic ''I'm breaking up with you before you break up with me'' pussy move.

Strange timing of the sacking just a few hours before a competitive game. However, saying that, the club should still be expected to win tonight plus at least we were more decisive.

I just hope we can bring in a more progressive manager to the club. Signing David Moyes wouldn’t feel at all much of a step forward in this new era.

Didn't see that coming.

I've only ever watched one presser as I wasn't interested in what Dyche had to say.