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Sean Dyche is looking forward to his first transfer window in which he does not have to contend with losing players to help Everton’s financial position. His tenure on Merseyside has been dominated by off-field issues and the need to play his part in addressing them – typically through having to deal with the sale of some of his best players to help improve club accounts.
Following the takeover by The Friedkin Group, completed last month, those concerns are now gone. And while the Premier League’s Profit and Sustainability Regulations [PSR], which the club has twice fallen foul of, will restrict efforts to improve his team, he is at least content he will not see it weakened for reasons outside his control.
Dyche was appointed in January 2023 with the club in a perilous position on the pitch that was worsened by the sale of academy product Anthony Gordon days before his arrival.
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The following summer, having led Everton to safety, he saw the deadline day departure of trusted midfielder Alex Iwobi among other exits.
“We had to juggle right before the deadline”, he reflected. “Beto came in because of the money we backlogged. This summer was making numbers work. [The sale of Amadou] Onana, lowering the wage bill and all that stuff. Apart from the PSR thing, the stability is there so that has changed.
“There’s not that need but you still have to work the right market. These guys [TFG] are certainly not wanting to weaken us. It’s the rules, not the intent… we are not under any pressure to get weaker by selling players.”
Whether anything can be done to improve the current squad is the big issue now. For all of the progress off the pitch through the takeover and the impending move to a new stadium, and the stability Dyche has provided on it, Everton enter the final half of this season just two points clear of the relegation zone and with reasons to look over their shoulder.
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