Dyche 'never going to take Everton into their new stadium'

Andy asked: With Sean Dyche seemingly saying he had taken the Everton squad as far as he could, is criticism of The Friedkin Group unfair? I'm not sure he left them with much choice.

Phil answered: I think the criticism of TFG is unfair in that if Sean Dyche felt he had taken Everton as far as he could (or perhaps this particular squad as far as he could) then they could not wait before acting as the current situation is very worrying.

The timing was certainly unusual, a couple of hours before the FA Cup tie against Peterborough United, but we must assume negotiations over severance terms were taking place.

My view, stated many times here, was that Dyche was never going to be the manager taking Everton into their new stadium, but I'm sure in an ideal world TFG would have preferred to have made this decision at the end of the season, not three weeks into their reign.

In the end, circumstances forced their hand.