‘Can get trapped’: Sean Dyche now highlights huge Everton problem ahead of Bournemouth clash

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Everton are set to face AFC Bournemouth in a crucial game near the bottom of the table, and a loss could be seriously damaging for the home side.

Manager Sean Dyche may find himself under pressure should Everton lose at Goodison Park again, particularly given that Bournemouth are below the Toffees and are yet to win in the league under Andoni Iraola.

Dyche has now highlighted that Everton have let their own standards slip over the years, and that they should not accept the position they currently find themselves in.

Dyche slams Everton’s mediocrity

Speaking ahead of the game, Dyche highlighted the problem that Everton have faced for years, that people within the club are too happy to let the standards slip and for Everton to narrowly avoid relegation every year.

“It is a fine line. You can call it low-level norms. The whole club has has adapted to low-level norms and the team can get trapped into that,’ he stated,

“We have to break through these barriers of low-level norms where it just becomes ‘alrightness’.

“Oh it will be alright because it is kind of what Everton do, we kind of fight, we do a bit, we have a hot bit, then we drop back down’ and it just becomes a new norm.

“I must make clear I don’t mean the fans. The club and the way it is and the team and the delivery has all been a bit ‘We are a big club’ without big delivery.”

Dyche is correct

Whilst many have been rightfully critical of Dyche as manager, his point is spot on, and the problem has stemmed back to way beyond his tenure.

The ownership issues and lack of direction when it comes to managers and recruitment has prevented Everton from making any progress. Whilst they have avoided relegation all this time, at this current trajectory the club will soon see their luck run out and will sleepwalk into disaster.

10 years ago, Everton were flourishing, playing entertaining football and qualifying for Europe. Now, they are avoiding relegation by the skin of their teeth, and this culture that has set in within the club will be difficult to change as time goes on.