Dyche 'under pressure' but Everton have 'no money'

Everton head Sean Dyche has urged fans to recognise nan struggle of managing a nine who person "no money" and person sold immoderate of their champion players.

The Toffees suffered a 4-0 conclusion astatine Tottenham aft losing 3-0 astatine location to Brighton connected nan opening time of nan season.

When asked astir whether his squad lacks value and faces a conflict against relegation, Dyche said: "It is simply a ne'er ending situation since I've been here, but it is each I've known astatine Everton Football Club."

The Toffees sold Belgium midfielder Amadou Onana to Aston Villa for £50m successful July and brought successful defender Jake O'Brien, guardant Iliman Ndiaye and midfielder Tim Iroegbunam for astir £40m combined, while Jesper Lindstrom and Jack Harrison person joined connected loan.

"We've sold a subordinate who is growing, maturing, and becoming a very bully subordinate and we've sewage to commencement nan process again and make others turn and mature and go bully players," added Dyche.

"It conscionable keeps going and going and going, that's conscionable nan reality of nan club. I activity connected realities and it is difficult astatine Everton Football Club. There are plentifulness of myths astir it. The latest was a story astir america being successful Europe. What happened successful nan past 3 seasons? Were we not trying to beryllium successful Europe?

"There has to beryllium reality and I've tried to bring that and I americium still trying to bring that. The truth is, coming present pinch a reliable squad is tough, but that doesn't mean you judge it. Our work is to return action erstwhile it is tough."

Former Everton winger Pat Nevin said connected BBC Radio 5 Live that Dyche's broadside "looked miles distant from it, not a deficiency of effort but a deficiency of quality".

And ex-Toffees defender Martin Keown said their adjacent Premier League crippled astatine location to Bournemouth is simply a "must-win", adding: "Sean Dyche is nether existent pressure."

Keown besides questioned: "Can he bargain players betwixt now and then?"

But erstwhile asked, Dyche added: "It's a weird point successful shot erstwhile group say: 'Why don't you spell retired and bargain someone?' I'm like: 'What do you mean? There is nary money.'

"It's arsenic if, arsenic a manager, I don't want to bargain anyone. It's not that I americium a head wanting to support nan money here. Unless personification tells maine thing different, this is what we've got."

Everton adjacent look Doncaster successful nan Carabao Cup connected Tuesday earlier hosting Bournemouth.

Dyche said he was down to 14 first-team players earlier visiting Spurs and does not expect galore of those to return earlier nan September world break.

He has urged his squad to conflict connected successful difficult circumstances.

"People person been saying is it nan ownership, nan points [deduction], nan injuries, this and that and each nan remainder of it but we've still recovered our way," he said.

"And that's why it is important to enactment focused. There's truthful overmuch sound and stories each time astir Everton and it is tough. It's not very often astir nan football. We've done it since I've been present and we person sewage to commencement again."