Everton’s forthcoming pre-season programme will perhaps be the most important Sean Dyche has ever overseen in his managerial career.
The Blues are set to ramp up their preparations for the new season in the coming weeks as they aim to lay the required foundations needed to ensure they are not embroiled in a third consecutive battle to avoid relegation.
Dyche’s side stayed up by the skin of their teeth last season, and following the game at Goodison Park, the Blues boss made no attempt to sugarcoat the club’s latest great escape. Survival simply afforded Dyche the opportunity to speak with refreshing honesty about the problems he inherited when he succeeded Frank Lampard back in January.
