Everton FC has responded to the ongoing sporting crisis and parted ways with coach Sean Dyche. The 53-year-old’s departure after two years came just hours before the Toffees’ cup game.
Everton FC pulled the plug on Thursday after five consecutive games without a win, parting ways with team manager Sean Dyche with immediate effect. The 16th-placed team in the Premier League said goodbye to the 53-year-old and his coaching staff in a remarkably short statement on its website, consisting of just seven lines.
The timing of the announcement was particularly surprising, as it was made just hours before the Liverpool club’s FA Cup game. Everton face third-tier Peterborough United in the third round of the world’s oldest cup competition on Thursday evening (20.45 CET).
The Toffees will be captained by former England international and current England U-18 head coach Leighton Baines and captain Seamus Coleman, the club announced.
Dyche, who led Burnley to the Premier League in 2016 and even into the Europa League play-offs in 2019, took over Everton in January 2023 as second-to-last in the table and was able to prevent the first relegation from the Premier League by a hair’s breadth at the end of the season.
Last season, the Toffees finished in 15th place, which was also an unsatisfactory position, but despite being docked eight points, they had little to do with the relegation battle.
Everton seemed to have stabilized under Dyche, but the current season has seen a step backwards. The Toffees have only won three of 19 games, with 17 points, just one point above the first relegation place. The 0-1 defeat at AFC Bournemouth last weekend should ultimately prove to be the last under Coach Dyche.
Moyes? Parker? Everton is looking for a successor
It is not yet clear how the blue club on the Mersey River will proceed. “The search for a new team manager is underway and an update will be provided in due course,” Everton wrote briefly in the already taciturn announcement.
It seems questionable whether a successor will be on the sidelines at Goodison Park for the next league game against Aston Villa this Wednesday (8:45 p.m.)
