Dyche wants to be the one to lead Everton into Bramley-Moore Dock

Sean Dyche admits he wants to be the one that takes Everton into their new stadium when it opens for the 2025/26 season but he acknowledges he would need to convince the Club’s prospective new owners that he is worthy of a new contract.

Dyche’s current terms expire at the end of the season and there have been no talks about him potentially staying on as boss as Farhad Moshiri prepares to sell the club to The Friedkin Group (TFG) who have agreed a deal to buy the Anglo-Iranian’s majority stake.

The process of regulatory approval by the FA, Financial Conduct Authority and Premier League could take around 12 weeks so Dyche is hoping to show the Americans that he has what it takes to take the Blues forward in the inaugural season at Bramley-Moore Dock.

“I haven’t spoken to them [and] I don’t know when I’m likely to,” the manager said of the Friedkins. “It’s not a given that they’ll speak with me but you would imagine they will at some point.

“[Clarity over my own future] is not really relevant. I’ve tried to speak openly about it — I got brought here as a custodian … to do a specific job, I feel, especially looking backwards from where it was to where it is now, and I continue to work hard at that.

“And that will be my focus; everything else will sort itself out. Obviously, we’ve got to change results — that’s a given, but the actual workload of what I’ve done here has been considerable and I’ll just keep doing that.

“However it opens up in the future, we’ll see.

“Of course [I want to be in the job]. What, dig this out for 21 months, or whatever it will be by then, for them to go: ‘Thanks for looking after us, off you pop’? Of course I would, but there is no divine right that they will say: ‘You are definitely the person to do this.’ And, if not, that is the way it goes.

“I don’t guarantee anything. What I do guarantee is hard work. I can’t guarantee that I am here, I can’t guarantee they finish off the ownership deal, I can’t guarantee they put £100m in or £10m. I can’t guarantee any of that. All I can guarantee is my own hard work, helping others the best I can and trying to balance out the situation.

“Until they give a feel or a steer on it, everything is conjecture.”