Sean Dyche is doing his job at Everton

I think that a big reason that Everton are in this mess is due to the constant upheaval of managers and their backroom staff. Not just the ridiculous pay-offs we have to sort out but the fact that each new manager wants to come in and bring in their own players to put their stamp on the side, which comes at a cost as well. To carry on doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results is, as they say, the definition of insanity.

I personally didn’t “want” Sean Dyche before he came in and I don’t “want” him now if we are talking strictly football terms. I do realise, however, that we are in a fragile position to say the least with everything surrounding the club, mainly off the pitch and he seems a man who ticks a lot of the boxes, at least for the short term, until we maybe get ourselves back into better fettle.

He has proven before that he can work with limited players, he can navigate the market without having money to spend. He seems to keep a level head about him, whether things are going good or bad. Although I cannot stand some of the soundbites that he comes out with e.g. change the story. The man is, at the very least, honest and upfront. I know Everton football club is a different animal to Burnley football club but he pretty much ran everything there and made them a Premier League (PL) football club and even got them into Europe. I think over his time there, his actual spend was something obscene like 70-80 million.

If you look at this season and everything that has happened to disrupt him and the team, it could be argued that this season has been a success and the job has been done. If we add the 8 points back, it puts us level with Brighton in the table in 12th position, with games left to play against 2 of the worst sides in the division. If you would have told me that is where we would have finished at the start of the season, all things considered, I would have bit your hand off for it.

When you drill down even further and truly scrutinise the state of this club at every level, be that FFP, debts, Farhad Moshiri, Bill Kenwright dying, it shows that he has done well to keep us in this league.

Perhaps, for me, the biggest indicator of whether it has been a job well done or not, is the actual players he has at his disposal to win PL matches. I have thought it for countless seasons, even before we started facing relegation questions, but we are absolutely crap. Not only do we lack players who have the necessary talent and…