Liverpool’s city rivals Everton look set to appoint a new manager today, with Sean Dyche taking the reigns at Goodison Park.
The i report that Dyche could be announced as Frank Lampard’s successor as soon as today. It looks a decent appoitnment from the Toffees, but there is a sneaky little twist in the tale.
That’s because as it turns out, their boss-to-be is actually a Liverpool fan. Dyche shared as much when speaking to LADbible in September.
“I was a Seventies kid so I supported Liverpool,” he said. “My local team Kettering, Kettering Town, me and my dad used to go down and watch them, they were pretty big in the non-league scene but [I supported] Liverpool from a distance.”
Asked for his favourite player, Dyche admitted that it had to be the legend that is Sir ‘King’ Kenny Dalglish.
“Got to be King Kenny,” said the former Burnley manager. “Met him in the most bizarre circumstances because I’m obviously a man and he treats you like a man in football, in my brain I’m going, ‘you’re King Kenny’, and he’s just chatting to me going, ‘oh alright, Burnley are going alright’, and I’m still going ‘you’re King Kenny’, in my head.”
Dyche set to join Everton
While Dyche is surely a good match for Everton, Liverpool supporters will no doubt take plenty of delight in this.
And well they might. Their perennially underachieving neighbours just haven’t got going this season. With relegation now a very real threat, they’ve had to turn to a Red to get them out of trouble.
Of course, Dyche won’t let his past allegiances get in the way of the job he’s got to do at Goodison, though. He has a semi-decent record against Jurgen Klopp, famously ending Liverpool’s 68-game unbeaten streak at Anfield in 2021.
The 51-year-old will be confident that he can get the better of the below-par Reds in the derby at the same ground in two weeks time.
If he does, Dyche will instantly become a hit with the blue half of Merseyside.
There may be some amongst them who have reservations about his no-nonsense style of play. But right now, they look to have a one-way ticket to the Championship. Dyche gives them a good chance of reversing that. Or perhaps we’re about to see an inside job from a Liverpool fan taking Everton down? Agent Dyche reporting for duty.
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