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 one 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 match against Peterborough, with Leighton Baines and Seamus Coleman in caretaker charge.
Moyes, who left West Ham at the end of last season, was Everton manager between 2002 and 2013.
Everton owner the Friedken Group, which completed its takeover of the club last month, is understood to be hoping to announce a new manager before next Wednesday’s Premier League match against Aston Villa.
talking to Sky Sports News In December, Moyes said: “I don’t want to take jobs where I have to scrap all the time and be at the bottom of the league.
“Most of the time I was at Everton, we competed for European positions. The last four years at West Ham, three of them were in Europe.
“I like to think I can do a job at a level rather than just avoid relegation. “I will wait for the right opportunity and if it doesn’t come, I will be happy where I am right now.”
Moyes famously coined the phrase ‘Folks’s Membership’ 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 guided the team to the qualifying rounds of the Champions League in 2005 and the final round of the FA Cup in 2009.
Moyes was also named League Managers Affiliation (LMA) manager of the year on three occasions during his time at Everton before leaving in 2013 to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.
During his second spell as West Ham manager, after six months in charge in the 2017/18 season, he led the Convention League to success in 2022/23, defeating Fiorentina in the final to win the first European silver medal. of the club and its first major trophy for 43 years.
Everton’s numbers reflect a downward spiral
Dyche took charge of 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, recording a last-match victory over Bournemouth.
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Jamie Carragher analyzes Everton’s recent Premier League problems with Dyche
The 53-year-old kept Everton in the top flight last season, despite the team having eight points deducted from their total due to two separate breaches of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR).
Members of Dyche’s secret team, Ian Woan, Steve Stone, Mark Howard and Billy Mercer, also left the club.
The Toffees are 16th in the Premier League and did not register a single shot on target during Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth, their eighth league defeat of the season, and have failed to score in eight of their last 10 games.
‘The club is left in limbo after the slow response to the weekend’s result’
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Sky Sports reporter Vinny O’Connor says Everton’s failure to act quickly after the Bournemouth defeat hampered their chances of appointing Graham Potter.
Sky’s Vinny O’Connor Sports information at Goodison Park:
“We knew Everton’s new owners were assessing the situation after the defeat to Bournemouth at the weekend. We knew that they had spoken to other possible replacements, specifically Graham Potter.
“Dyche had until the summer on his contract, and the best scenario was to have a safe pair of hands to help them get through the season, maintain their Premier League status and then reassess it in the summer.
“But recent results – one win in 11 league games and eight of them without a goal – mean they have decided the only way to turn things around is with a new manager.
“Anyway, the club is in limbo because after the weekend’s result against Bournemouth, the owners were not quick to back Sean Dyche or make a decision on his future.
“It allowed West Ham to get ahead of them and agree a deal that was attractive enough for Graham Potter to sign for them.
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Sky Sports activities Alan Irwin looks at who could replace Sean Dyche as Everton manager, should the struggling boss be sacked.
“Now Everton’s managerial search begins again. We know that there was discomfort among the Evertonians: the style of play, the lack of goals, the departure of their forward line with (Dominic) Calvert-Lewin with only two goals and 15 without scoring.
“We’ve had a strange situation here where the opposing manager lost his job, remember David Moyes came back with Man Utd and lost his job shortly after?
“Brendan Rodgers lost his job as Liverpool manager shortly after the Merseyside derby, but I don’t remember any manager losing his job so close to the start.
“It’s dragged on a bit since the weekend, and that loss to Bournemouth. “Everton fans would have liked to see action taken sooner and some sort of decision.”
“Everton could not leave the prospect of relegation to chance”
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Sean Dyche’s final words as Everton manager during the FA Cup press conference, where he spoke about his future on Merseyside.
Sports information from Sky’s Alan Myers:
“The prospect of being relegated in the first six months and starting life in their new stadium in the Championship next season was too much to leave to chance.
“Of course, that remains a concern and his choice of Dyche’s replacement has to be a balance between the need to look to the future but also the need to ensure the short-term security of his Premier League status.
“The Friedkins have a huge job ahead of them, both on and off the field. The club has been paralyzed in recent years due to the prolonged acquisition drama, but it is also a club that has almost no trophies. 30 years, the longest period without cutlery in its long and illustrious history.
Dyche has failed to improve Everton this season
“The decision to change manager is just the first of many important decisions that will need to be made in the coming months as TFG look to return the glory days to what was once English football’s leading contender.
“The fans want and expect something better. Managing Everton is as big an expectation as any Premier League club, but for some, ask any former player or manager about the pressure of playing for a club that, before the creation of the Premier League, was known as one of the ‘Big Four’.
“Of course, it has been a long time since Everton were part of the elite and they never looked like adding to their nine league titles during that time, but that expectation, misguided or not, has never gone away.
“There is a generation of fans who have not seen success in any form, being left only with a feeling of anemoia and the generations before them have been bewildered by not being able to keep up, not only with the big experienced clubs but also with the new ones. arrivals who have surpassed Everton as winners of the Premier League.
“Whoever replaces 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 institution of English football, but only after a fight to save it from a more pressing challenge. . “.
