Sean Dyche says he did the whole lot he might to “defend the badge” and is assured he left Everton on a “steady footing” and with the group in “fine condition”.
Dyche was sacked final week by new homeowners the Friedkin Group hours earlier than their FA Cup tie with Peterborough United.
He left with Everton sixteenth within the desk having received simply three of 19 Premier League video games this season and changed by David Moyes.
In an announcement launched by the League Managers Affiliation, Dyche stated: “It was an honour to handle Everton, a soccer membership with a big heritage and an infinite following in Liverpool and everywhere in the world, by means of one among its hardest durations in its historical past. Regardless of the challenges we confronted, I needed to make sure that the membership’s narrative was targeted on the constructive path it’s going to take sooner or later and that the group might deal with competing within the Premier League within the current.
“I thank my workers, the gamers and all concerned who performed their half, because it merely wasn’t potential with out their assist and experience. I additionally thank the followers who got here by means of for us many instances after we all wanted their assist.”
“Nice respect” for returning Moyes
He added: “The appropriate time has come to go away the membership, with the group in fine condition. David is a supervisor who I’ve nice respect for and I imagine he and his workers will assist to push the membership ahead once more and construct on the steady footing we’ve applied previously two years.
“I want everybody effectively going forwards together with the brand new homeowners, who I hope will take the membership to the following stage and ship the success which each and every Evertonian desires.
“My half as a custodian has been performed and I’ll endlessly take nice delight in that. After going by means of some extraordinarily troublesome conditions, I by no means misplaced religion in everybody round me and we did the whole lot we might to guard the badge, safeguarding it and the identify of Everton Soccer Membership.”
Moyes managed Everton from 2002 to 2013 and his second spell will get underway tonight when the Toffees host Aston Villa at Goodison Park.
