I’ve explained it to them’ – Sean Dyche hints at subject of his Everton talks with 777 Partners
Everton manager Sean Dyche has outlined his biggest frustrations by hinting at the content of his talks with the club’s prospective new owners, 777 Partners
Sean Dyche has outlined his biggest frustrations as Everton manager as he hinted at the content of his face-to-face talks with the club’s prospective new owners, 777 Partners.
A delegation from the Miami-based private investment firm who have agreed a deal to purchase Farhad Moshiri’s 94.1% stake in the club met with Dyche at Everton’s Finch Farm training base ahead of the 3-1 win at Brentford and co-founders Josh Wander and Steve Pasko were joined by Don Dransfield, CEO of 777’s football group in the stands at Goodison Park for the Blues’ 2-1 defeat to Luton Town.
Sean Dyche has outlined his biggest frustrations as Everton manager as he hinted at the content of his face-to-face talks with the club’s prospective new owners, 777 Partners.
A delegation from the Miami-based private investment firm who have agreed a deal to purchase Farhad Moshiri’s 94.1% stake in the club met with Dyche at Everton’s Finch Farm training base ahead of the 3-1 win at Brentford and co-founders Josh Wander and Steve Pasko were joined by Don Dransfield, CEO of 777’s football group in the stands at Goodison Park for the Blues’ 2-1 defeat to Luton Town.
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He said: “Possibly, I’ve explained it to them, as I do with you, I try and give an honest view of what I think the situation is, changing the story. I explained it’s mine and our job to do it.
I think there was another side to it here, plenty of intent, good quality chances but the cutting edge that we need, the killer edge has got to change here. It’s been two years of the very same thing – decent football, try and score a goal, don’t quite score one, let one in, lose a game.
“That’s what we’re trying to change. It’s got to be a firmer mentality underneath it all to do that ugly stuff, the hard yards, that’s what makes successful teams.
“Most teams at this level – especially us – have got quality, I think that’s obvious. The bit we’ve got to consistently reinforce to the players is doing all of the ugly details, everything counts.
“We just go a little bit iffy with that. When we’re on it, we are on it.
“I thought Brentford was a very good performance in all ways, I thought Villa was a very good performance in all ways. This was a good performance in terms of the football and some of the quality but the killer instinct at one end and then to defend at the other, just goes a bit, I’d call it ‘alrightness.’
“Alrightness gets you nothing. ‘It will be alright, he’ll do that and he’ll do that.’
“No, no, you’ve got to be on it all the time. We’re trying to create that mentality where we’re on it all the time through training into games, through training into games again.
“We’ve just taken a big shift and then lo and behold, we step back again… and it drives me mad.”
Dyche believes his side were not sharp enough at both ends of the pitch as they enabled the newly-promoted Hatters to secure their first ever Premier League win. He said: “I don’t know what the xG was, it would be right up there. By the way, just to be clear, you don’t examine a whole performance on xG but it’s another marker that gives you an idea.
“Bodies in the box, balls going into the box, quality chances created. You’ve got to take them at the end of the day and their body language to take theirs was better than ours, particularly the set pieces.
“The first one more than the second one. The second one we didn’t organise properly or quickly enough but the first one is just the desire to go and head the ball and the desire to go and get a challenge in off a clearance to score a goal.
“You’ve got to score goals however they come. Sometimes they’re beautiful, sometimes they’re ugly but nobody looks at that at the end of the season, just scoring goals.”
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