Dyche: 'There is no money'

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.

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.

Where's the Arteta money?!

Dyche is full of excuses.

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

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!! I’m a Dyche fan but I really suspect he doesn’t 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 doesn’t look down on us. And by us and I don’t mean the club, I mean the fans. I think Dyche looks down on us and is playing line-ups that he knows we don’t like just to prove he’s in charge and has the bigger bollocks!! Knobhead… I reckon Textor will get Graeme Potter in anyway.

The 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.

I 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.

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...

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.