Season › 2024-25 › News Dyche: 'There is no money' Lyndon Lloyd 24/08/2024 18comments | Jump to last Sean Dyche has moved to temper hopes that Everton might be able to add much-needed reinforcements before next week’s transfer deadline, saying that he and his players will have to regroup with what they’ve got as they look to correct an awful start to the new season. The Blues followed up their season-opening 3-0 defeat at home to Brighton with a 4-0 thrashing at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium today, results and performances that have alarmed supporters and heightened speculation that the Club will look to the transfer market to help plug gaps left by recent player sales and injuries to key players. However, though Everton could have wiggle room if they can make a further sale, have one domestic and one international loan spot at their disposal and there has been uncorroborated talk of an approach for Newcastle right-back Kieran Trippier, nothing appears to be imminent with a week left in the window. And Dyche, who has only started one of his four new summer signings so far, suggests that while he would love to go out and buy new players, the finances just aren’t there at a cash-strapped club that has seen two proposed takeovers collapse in the last 12 few months. Article continues below video content That could change should Kevin Thelwell be able to offload any of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Neal Maupay or Mason Holgate but only the Frenchman has attracted recent interest so far and even then only on a loan basis. "It is a never ending challenge since I've been here, but it is all I've known at Everton Football Club,” Dyche said after the loss against Spurs. "We've sold a player [in Amadou Onana] who is growing, maturing, and becoming a very good player and we've got to start the process again and make others grow and mature and become good players. "It just keeps going and going and going, that's just the reality of the club. I work on realities and it is difficult at Everton Football Club. There are plenty of myths about it. The latest was a myth about us being in Europe. What happened in the last three seasons? Were we not trying to be in Europe? "There has to be reality and I've tried to bring that and I am still trying to bring that. The fact is, coming here with a tough squad is tough, but that doesn't mean you accept it. Our responsibility is to take action when it is tough. "It's a weird thing in football when people say: 'Why don't you go out and buy someone?' I'm like: 'What do you mean? There is no money.' "It's as if, as a manager, I don't want to buy anyone. It's not that I am a manager wanting to keep the money here. Unless someone tells me something different, this is what we've got." Having steered the club away from relegation in his first 6 months in charge last year thanks to a last-day victory over next weekend’s opponents, Bournemouth, and then finished well clear of the drop zone despite two points deductions last season, Dyche says he and his staff will simply have to find a way again this term. "People have been saying is it the ownership, the points [deduction], the injuries, this and that and all the rest of it but we've still found our way, and that's why it is important to stay focused,” he explained. “There's so much noise and stories every day around Everton and it is tough. It's not very often about the football. We've done it since I've been here and we have got to start again." Reader Comments (18) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer () Paul Hewitt 1 Posted 24/08/2024 at 22:51:11 You don't need money to have some sort of tactical plan Iain Johnston 2 Posted 24/08/2024 at 23:00:59 I get it, I really do. Our Club is in the most precarious finacial state in it's history and is controlled by a now apathetic owner.But... Mr Dyche our team's tactics & formation is simply about containment, there is no intent, no motivation. 95% of our players simply go through the motions.Playing 451 clearly doesn't stop defeats, packing the midfield with defensive minded players doesn't stop defeats... again could you please explain to this layman why you persist with it?You talk about no money, you talk about selling Onana and reinvesting it on O'Brien, Ndiaye & bringing in Lindstrom, fair enough, but again could you please explain why the former, a fine young atheletic defender is 3rd choice behind players who are proven liabilities and why, as positive forward looking players, the latter are 2nd choice behind established squad members who have proved time after time their inability to A/ score, B/ string more than 2 backward passes together & C/ have no creativity. Gavin Johnson 3 Posted 24/08/2024 at 23:19:11 Yes...no money for players...and no money to sack Dyche. He's only in a job still because we didn't have the funds or board to sack him on that 4 month winless run last season.The way we're playing it looks like it will be another 4 months before we get a result. Mike Allman 4 Posted 24/08/2024 at 23:26:16 Surely FFP, which has hamstrung us the last few years, will be abolished soon. Its doing nothing to prevent clubs like man city from buying who they want, yet preventing the likes of Everton who are in dire need from signing anyone. When will it end? Fair play seems to be the last thing FFP is achieving. Dave Cook 5 Posted 24/08/2024 at 23:27:59 Yes we spent 40 mil on 1 Starter and 2 bench warmers apparently, Yet we're rich enough to be able to spend 40 million on players and only start 1 of them.Where's the Arteta money?! Mike Allman 6 Posted 24/08/2024 at 23:36:52 Swallowed up with the onana, Lukaku, Rodwell, barkley oh wait Mark Wynne 7 Posted 24/08/2024 at 23:43:55 Ive said it before. Dyche needs to go. I still say we should have gone the Bielsa route. Sure we might have gone down and thats making a lot of assumptions, but we would be a better side and in better shape. Anyone that thinks Michael Keane should be on the pitch for our great club needs to be shown the way out. Its the Moyes mentality, but worse. Peter Gorman 8 Posted 24/08/2024 at 23:47:58 The only first choice player missing is Branthwaite, and he is great, but he can't carry the team.Dyche is full of excuses. Barry Rathbone 9 Posted 24/08/2024 at 23:51:10 We bought poorly when we had a bit of cash and the last few seasons have reduced standards to perilous levels because, well, lord knows. No one has a clue what is happening at this increasingly bizarre football club.Onana has already gone with the strong possibility DCL and Branthwaite will follow leaving desperate faith in unknowns and untried players from the stiffs.This was the Wigan plan under Whelan when he closed the cheque book and sold Martinez best players. Yes, they scraped by defying relegation for a few season they even had a miracle winning the FA cup - but eventually they went down.Some circumstances are just insurmountable Sean Kearns 10 Posted 25/08/2024 at 00:09:44 "We've sold a player [in Amadou Onana] who is growing, maturing, and becoming a very good player and we've got to start the process again and make others grow and mature and become good players...But Brighton have been doing this for about a decade and they battered us 0-3 at home with no Ben White, Robert Sanchez, Bissouma, Cucorella, Caicedo, Trossard, Mac Allister, Dan Burn etc… should I continue?Irobougnam (who we need a nickname for ASAP) has been better than Onana anyway so what is the ginger beaut even talking about?? Moaning like we are holding him back!! Im a Dyche fan but I really suspect he doesnt like us scouse fans and thinks we expect more than we deserve etc… MOYESIE IN because even though we would play the same, Moyes genuinely doesnt look down on us. And by us and I dont mean the club, I mean the fans. I think Dyche looks down on us and is playing line-ups that he knows we dont like just to prove hes in charge and has the bigger bollocks!! Knobhead… I reckon Textor will get Graeme Potter in anyway. Nigel Munford 11 Posted 25/08/2024 at 00:12:28 I was going to add something hopeful, but am too depressed about the state of our club to find the words. Fred Quick 12 Posted 25/08/2024 at 00:24:00 Sean @ 10The difference between Brighton and Everton is night and day, they built a team bit by bit with a plan in place, then developed the players into valuable assets who they could sell on for big profits. Everton on the other hand, tried to shoehorn expensive players into some sort of set-up, that was neither designed nor suitable for the players that they bought in. Worst than that the financial overlords didn't stop and think about FFP or any other financial restrictions and continued to chase the dragon by lashing more and more cash to try and fix the problems of the team, or to dismiss the manager(s) at great expense to the club, both financially and reputationally. Due to the lack of oversight and signing cheques as if there was no tomorrow, we found ourselves forced into selling players, mostly at a loss on the original investment, it's no wonder we find ourselves in such a perilous predicament. Everton is a curious beast, it's leadership has low expectations but the fans still dream of better days, and it seems that too many managers in recent years seem to want to blame the supporters for having that dream. I've posted on another thread that most Evertonians I'm aware of are fairly grounded in their expectations and know exactly where the club is currently at. We are mostly humble and realistic in our expectations, but we don't accept surrender, no matter what the odds are, and I'd argue that those qualities are what has helped keep the club in the Premier League these past few seasons. Si Pulford 13 Posted 25/08/2024 at 00:43:38 Two defeats. Jesus. I imagine Dyche starts the season with a number of points to target. I doubt that figure is 114. Or to put it another way I doubt he expects a win in every single game. We have no money. Hes been dealt a shitty hand and done a good job. Am I happy with these two defeats? No. Am I going to scream for the sack like I'm on a talkSPORT call in? NO. Some embarrassing opinions here. Time for a reality check- were rubbish and we sell our best players every year. Thats not sustainable and its not the managers fault. Fred Quick 14 Posted 25/08/2024 at 00:52:52 Si @13I agree that the manager has been dealt a bad hand, however, he isn't one of those recent managers appointed by Everton, that was promised something that the club couldn't possibly deliver, he knew exactly on what basis he was being appointed and why, that's one of the reasons that I find his complaints more than a bit hollow. Likewise, we fans know why Dyche is here, and even though there is an outcry whenever we drop points it's not because we think we have a divine right to be victorious, rather we realise that every point dropped makes the task of staying up, that much more difficult. See where we are at by Bonfire night is perhaps the right thing to do, but that won't happen if the boss continues to mope and complain about having to carry the world on his shoulders and expecting fans to put up and shut up and worship at his feet. Gavin Johnson 15 Posted 25/08/2024 at 00:58:17 We're actually up on the FFP and we are allowed to spend close to £30m this window...The money's just not there though because we've got to hang onto it for running costs etc until the mess of a takeover is sorted out.On Dyche, someone said it perfectly last weekend after the Brighton game. I posted on another forum about cursing our luck for not offloading DCL and getting Minteh.The other poster replied that it would have been a coup to get Minteh and he'd have been a great signing the problem is Dyche wouldn't play him and he'd be on the bench for Jack Harrison.And there is the crux of the problem with Dyche, and his players having to have Premier league experience nonsense... Andy Mead 16 Posted 25/08/2024 at 01:26:43 Dead man walking. It's not a lack of cash that's the no1 problem, it's your no tactics,pass back to Pickford to hoof up the sidelines to nobody tactics that are the problem. Don't tell me players cant pass a ball 5 yards to each other? They have been instructed not to. Pump it long lads! Look at the players they are injured, Patterson couldn't get a game when he was fit,Coleman was finished 2 seasons ago,Young,well no explanation needed there. Only Braithwaite and Garnet first choice but do the tactics change when they are available, no they don't. But of course, there are no other managers out there right? Ant Purcell 17 Posted 25/08/2024 at 01:42:41 Fuckin hell bells if u got money can't do ewt Newcastle god loads but cannot spend sewn up then our football is dead in the fuckin water Christine Foster 18 Posted 25/08/2024 at 01:59:14 Come on guys, is ANYONE really surprised at that result? Weren't we all expecting something like that but hoping it wouldn't be that bad? Didn't everyone have the same gut feeling after last week?I did because no matter where the starting 11 play there was a totally absence of tactics other than work hard.. headless chucks.. hassle and harry.. they did, they chased, dived in, ran but it was like watching a good premier league side playing a league 2 side. What should have happened is an acknowledgement of where we are and the lack of resources. Park the bus and concede two thirds of the pitch, let them have possession where it can't hurt us. Pick the ground to fight. Make it difficult for them to break through. Pack the defence. Instead we had the team battling every ball, every where. They fought an aimless fight and just picked us off.Tactically inept. Little or no shape. Holes aplenty. Add to that individual mistakes and you end up where we did. On the end of a drubbing.One hopes the return of two or three players, the sale and a couple more, will bolster the team. Not every team is Spurs. On my poor feed there was a shot of Dyche chatting or remonstrating with his offsiders, who looked at him and just turned away.. they had given up and Dyche had nothing more to offer.There is no point in just pointing fingers at players, owners, we are where we are and we have to get out of it quickly. If Dyche is to stay then he has to change the lack of tactics. Listening to Dyche nothing has changed from the previous few years, but if anything, tactically and player wise it has, we are a poor team, poorly led and of no confidence. Something has to change. Fresh faces, a couple of wins, returns from injuries, all of it will help. I just hope its sooner than later. Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. 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