Why Sean Dyche should turn down Everton

With rumours linking him to the vacant Everton job, it would be wise and in his best interests for Dyche to turn down the move and stay at Burnley.

Burnley is having a terrific season in the Premiership, currently up to seventh in the league and deserves all the plaudits that they are currently receiving. Burnley has certainly been one of the surprise teams of the seasons so far with nobody expecting the team to have achieved what they have this season.

Sean Dyche has shown that he is capable of getting the best out of what he has and being able to squeeze out results for his team. What he has done with Burnley is nothing short of remarkable, the way he was able to get his team originally into the Premiership and back up again after being relegated, maintaining Burnley in the league and now making even more progress. His work at Burnley has gotten him the credit that he deserves from many and has seen linked to various different jobs in the Premier league, from clubs such as Leicester City and Everton.

Everton currently find themselves in a mess, having spent plenty of money in the summer with ambitions of cracking into the top six and getting into Europe. However, they find themselves in the relegation zone and consist of a team that is highly unbalanced. Everton, despite all the money spent in the summer, failed to replace their star striker in Romelu Lukaku and are essentially a team filled with a bunch of No. 10’s. They do not have a proper striker in the team, they are struggling to score goals and have a defence that is relying heavily on Jordan Pickford to bail them out.

Right now, it’s hard to see why anybody would want to take the Everton job. Any new potential manager who comes in will have to wait until the January transfer window before they can even begin to buy one – and it will be hard for them to buy an adequate striker in the January, no club will be willing to sell their strikers half-way through the season when they need them most and with every club knowing how desperate Everton are, they will have to pay a premium cost to buy one.

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Everton might be a bigger club than Burnley are, but it’s hard to see why Dyche would want the job. He’s done phenomenal work at Burnley so far, it would be puzzling to leave them when he has complete job security to go to a club that is struggling and can’t be fixed for a further two months. The Christmas period is going to be the busiest period of the season in terms of schedules, it’s a gruelling period and not one where a newly manager wants to come in and try to implement his game on his team.

On the face of it, is this Everton team really suited to the way that Dyche wants to play? Is the kind of football that Dyche likes to play really what Everton are looking for? Everton hired Roberto Martinez and then Ronald Koeman to take them away from the, at the time highly effective, David Moyes brand of football and go more continental. To hit the reset button on all of that, almost feels like Everton do not have a plan at all.

They are in clear desperation mode and looking to throw anything at wall in the vein hopes that it sticks. This is a club that brought Wayne Rooney back to the club for reasons that had nothing to do with his football ability, but rather a marketing attempt covered in nostalgia. They sacked Ronald Koeman without any kind of replacements lined up – even Crystal Palace were prepared to quickly get a replacement in after how fast they sacked Frank De Boer.

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Dyche at Everton doesn’t seem like a perfect fit. It comes off as one club hopelessly grabbing towards anybody that they can get. People might argue that if Dyche has ambition, that he should take the Everton job but it doesn’t hold up.

He’s taken Burnley to a good place, to bigger heights than anybody would have expected him to take them so far this season and to throw all that away mid-season to go to a club that wants to be ambitious but doesn’t know how to be, what is the point? Surely better, more fitting jobs will open up for Dyche that he can take on. Even how fast clubs are to sack managers when it goes wrong, something will open up for him. But Everton is a risk that he doesn’t need to take, especially for the good of his own managerial career.