Sean Dyche drops Oasis hint as he says Everton need a manager not a head coach
Sean Dyche has dropped a strong hint about Oasis tickets as the Everton manager explains how going to gigs allows him to switch off from the demands of his job
Sean Dyche has explained how he goes to gigs to switch off from the real “management” demands at Everton, while offering a strong hint that he has obtained tickets for one of Oasis’ in-demand reunion concerts. Dyche replaced Frank Lampard at Goodison Park at the end of January 2023 with the Blues joint bottom of the Premier League.
Although they recorded the lowest equivalent points total in the club’s history, Everton avoided a first relegation in 72 years by a single Abdoulaye Doucoure goal on the final day of the 2022/23 season.
Last term, despite a brace of sporting sanctions, culminating with eight deducted points, Dyche steered the team to Premier League survival before the final month of the campaign for the first time since 2021 last season as the Blues finished with five consecutive home wins, including a first Merseyside Derby victory at Goodison Park for 13-and-a-half years, and without their punishments would have finished level on points with 11th placed Brighton & Hove Albion.
Everton have been up for sale throughout this time with wantaway majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri having not attended a Premier League game at Goodison Park for almost three years since the 5-2 capitulation against Watford under Rafael Benitez on October 23, 2021, and an interim chief executive in place since the mass board exodus in June 2023, ensuring that Dyche has often found himself the de facto spokesperson for the club at his pre-match press conferences when it comes to off-the-field chaos.
Speaking to Sky Sports, he said: “This is definitely a different management job. This is management.
“You hear a lot now about the title ‘head coach’ or manager with these blurry lines but this is management. There’s no two ways about it.
“I’m not against the idea of a head coach, I’m not giving an opinion on the rights or wrongs of it but you know you hear that a lot ‘head coach’ and a head coach would literally just be coaching the team. Well, certainly from my knowledge of them bringing in a head coach – these are your players, coach the team.
