David Moyes a candidate for Everton manager after Sean Dyche sacked by club 16th in Premier League | Football news

David Moyes is a candidate for the vacant managerial position at Everton, Sky Sports News understands, after Sean Dyche was sacked on Thursday.

Dyche paid the price for Everton’s run of just one win in their last 11 games, leaving them a point above the Premier League relegation zone in 16th place.

His sacking was confirmed just over three hours before Everton’s FA Cup third round tie against Peterborough, with Leighton Baines and Seamus Coleman appointed on temporary duty.

Moyes, who left West Ham at the end of last season, was manager of Everton between 2002 and 2013.

It is understood that Everton’s owner, the Friedken Group – who only completed the takeover of the club last month – hopes to announce a new manager before next Wednesday’s Premier League game against Aston Villa.

Speaking with Sky Sports News in December, Moyes said: “I don’t want to take jobs where I have to constantly leave and be at the bottom of the league.

“Most of the time I was at Everton, we were competing for European positions. The last four years at West Ham, three were in Europe.

“I like to think I can do a level job, not just avoid relegation. I’ll wait for the right opportunity and if it doesn’t come, I’ll be happy where I am.”

Moyes famously coined the phrase ‘The People’s Club’ to describe the Blues during his first press conference as Everton manager after replacing Walter Smith in 2002.

During his 11 years in charge, the 61-year-old Scot led them to the qualifying rounds of the 2005 Champions League and the 2009 FA Cup final.

Moyes was also named manager of the year by the League Managers’ Association (LMA) on three occasions during his time at Everton before leaving in 2013 to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.

During his second term as West Ham manager – after six months in charge in the 2017/18 season. – engineered success in the 2022/23 Conference League, defeating Fiorentina in the final to win the club’s first European silverware and their first major trophy for 43 years.

Dyche took over at Everton in January 2023, after spending almost 10 years as Burnley boss between October 2012 and April 2022.

The Toffees survived relegation at the end of the 2022-23 season. by just two points, securing a final day victory over Bournemouth.

The 53-year-old then kept Everton in the top flight last season, despite the team having eight points deducted from their total for two separate breaches of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR).

Members of Dyche’s backroom team Ian Woan, Steve Stone, Mark Howard and Billy Mercer have also left the club.

The Toffees are 16th in the Premier League and did not register a goal during Saturday’s game 1-0 loss to Bournemouth – their eighth league defeat this season, and they haven’t scored in eight of their last 10 games.

‘The club remained in uncertainty after the slow response to the results of the weekend’

Sky Sports News’ Vinny O’Connor at Goodison Park:

“We knew Everton’s new owners were assessing the situation after the defeat at Bournemouth last weekend. We knew they were talking to other potential replacements, particularly Graham Potter.

“Dyche was under contract until the summer and the ideal scenario was for a couple of safe hands to take them through the season, maintain their Premier League status and then reassess in the summer.

“But recent results, one win in 11 league games, failure in eight of them, means they’ve decided the only way to change things is with a new manager.

“The club is already in limbo as, following the weekend’s result against Bournemouth, the owners were not quick to back Sean Dyche or make a decision regarding his future.

“It allowed West Ham to steal a march on them and put together a deal that was tempting enough for Graham Potter to sign for them.

“Now Everton’s search for a manager begins again. We know there has been unrest among the Evertons – the style of play, the lack of goals, the performance of their forward line with (Dominic) Calvert-Lewin on just two goals and 15 clean sheets.

“We had a strange situation here where the opposing manager lost his job, remember David Moyes who came back to Man Utd and lost his job shortly afterwards?

“Brendan Rodgers lost his job as Liverpool manager shortly after the Merseyside derby – but I can’t remember a manager losing his job so close to the start of the game.

“It’s taken a bit longer since the weekend, and that defeat against Bournemouth. Everton fans would have liked to have taken action earlier, and had some kind of determination.”

‘Everton could not leave relegation to chance’

Alan Myers from Sky Sports News:

“The prospect of being relegated in the first six months and starting life in their brand new stadium in the Championship next season was too much to pass up.

“Of course, that remains a concern and their choice of replacement for Dyche must be a balance between the need to look to the future but also the need to ensure the short-term security of their Premier League status.

“The Friedkins have a huge job ahead of them, both on and off the pitch, the club has been in a state of paralysis for the last few years due to protracted takeover drama, but it is also a club that has gone nearly 30 years without a trophy, the longest period without silverware in its long history. and glorious history.

“The decision to change managers is just the first of many big decisions that will have to be made in the coming months as TFG look to restore the glory days of this once premier rival of the English game

“The fans want and expect better. Managing Everton comes with expectations as high as any other club in the Premier League, but for some, ask any former player or manager about the pressure of playing at a club that, before the inception of the Premier League, was known as one of the ‘big four’.

“Of course, it’s been a while since Everton have been part of the elite and it never looked like they would add to their nine league titles in that time, but that expectation, misguided or not, never went away.

“There is a generation of fans who have not experienced success in any form, they are left with a sense of anemoia, and the generations before them were left bewildered by their failure to keep up, not only with the experienced big clubs, but also with the newcomers who have overtaken Everton as the best in the Premier league.

“Whoever takes over Dyche has a wonderful opportunity, with a fantastic new stadium, financial stability under new owners and the prospect of a fresh start to rebuild an English football institution, but only after struggling to save itself from a more pressing challenge.”