Sean Dyche responds to claim new owner John Textor will sack him if he buys Everton

Sean Dyche claims he is ignoring the “outside noise” that prospective owner John Textor will axe him if the American buys control at Everton.

Textor is in a period of exclusivity with Blues majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri and he has until November 30 to sell his 45 per cent stake in Crystal Palace and take over at Everton. He owns Botafogo and is said to want Abel Ferreira, who manages rivals Palmeiras, to replace Dyche at Goodison Park, with the Portuguese having won two Brazilian titles with the São Paulo side.

Textor has rubbished the claims and Dyche says he is too long in the tooth to worry about his future. “That’s standard,” said the Everton boss, whose side are pointless and bottom of the Premier League. “I mean, in 10 years as a manager if you think I haven’t been down this road before you’d be wrong.

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“Even at Burnley they would talk about managers for years, what about that, they should do this. It’s standard in the business now. Unless you’re a legendary manager with legendary status at certain clubs, it’s unlikely you’re not going to get questioned in that way.

“I just saw that Mikel Arteta has signed a new deal. Two years ago at the beginning of the season - three games in - there were people saying he’s got to go. I remember they won a few games 1-0, next thing they look like the old Arsenal and two years later he’s signing a new contract. That’s the nature of the business.

“Arsene Wenger, of all people, was questioned, a manager who paid for a stadium. People said ‘they have to change it’.

“This club has had eight or nine years of that kind of thing every 12 or 18 months, with noise generated either from bad results or a feel that ‘you’ve got to change it’. You’d ask why, ‘I don’t know, they just do’. I’ve never worried about it. Full stop. I just get on working dealing with realities.

“I look at the club and where we’re at, the player trading, the money we’ve saved, the players we’ve got, the injuries we’ve got and say ‘could this happen? Yeah. Do I want it to happen? No. Am I working hard to stop it from happening? Of course I am’. The outside noise is still noise and it won’t go away.”

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Dyche’s Everton contract expires in June and he insists agreeing a new one is bottom of his to-do list. When asked if he felt he would need to speak to Textor, he said: “Absolutely not. I don’t have to. These things take care of themselves.

“The last thing on my mind if I spoke to a new owner - if there was a new owner - would be my contract. That will sort itself out one way or another. That’s the other side of the business. They want to know you, what’s happening, where we’re at. My contract is the least of my concerns at the moment. The first of my concerns is the team winning football matches.”

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