Well we can’t blame him for stuff he hasn’t done yet.
All we have to go off is how he played at Burnley and 18 months at basket case Everton where most of the players aren’t his.
If he had the 13/14 squad and he had Stones leathering long diagonals at Mirallas’s head and he was keeping Deulofeu on the bench and playing Alacarz upfront so we could get 44 points, then I’d be alongside everyone criticising him at the moment for only playing a certain style.
Dyche’s style isn’t the limiting ceiling on the football we can play here though. Its the quality of the players, its an absolutely terrible squad and absolutely nowhere near the levels of the 13/14 squad which is what you need to challenge European places and consistently play good football.
The 04/05 squad didn’t play great football under Moyes but came 4th. Even that thought had players in Gravesen Cahill Osman Arteta who are miles and miles ahead of any player in this squad now. Osman and Arteta even as they are now in their 40s could probably outplay most of our midfield.
Some Everton fans massively overrate this squad. Outside of Pickford Branthwaite and Onana, no European team would want a single one of our players. They’re absolutely bang average at best. People still think it’s the Moyes/Martinez period when any club in Europe would have taken Stones Baines Coleman Arteta Pienaar Lukaku Mirallas Barkley Fellaini etc.
We’re nowhere nowhere near that. It’s a bottom half PL squad of some extremely average players.
Thats spot on, outside of Pickford,
Branthwaite and Onana theres no decent asset value for any players.
Big improvement needed to get the squad value up.
Dyche isn't suddenly going to buy players capable of playing attacking football or who's strengths are there on the ball ability. I bet he'll admit himself that his main strength in management is setting up teams to be 'hard to beat', he's very good at doing that for the most part. I do not expect this sudden shift to a attacking style.
Dyche likes the players you've listed, 'doucs' is going nowhere, mykolenko is defensively solid so that's more than good enough in a Dyche team, DCL hold up play is decent, gueye and coleman are 'model professionals' and Keane is now his 4th choice striker.
Gnonto heavily linked last summer, Asprilla in Jan.
Both attacking players...
They do but this was a Messi vs Ronalda question at Dyche and he picked the objectively worse FOOTball player lol
its different depending on what you want to measure
Who’s got a better heading technique? Ronaldo
Who’s got a more powerful shot? Ronaldo
Who’s got better finishing with their weaker foot? Ronaldo
Who’s the more natural striker in terms of movement in the 6 yard box to score? Ronaldo
There is a reason he won all the Ballon D’ors
Messi is probably the best player I’ve ever seen but Ronaldo’s technique cannot be described as terrible compared to him.
Either way it’s certainly no indicator of Dyche’s managerial style because he said he preferred Ronaldo. A load of football people past and present have answers the same way given that question. Doesn’t mean they prefer physicality over technique.
Ronaldo every single day of the week.
Best player in England
Best player in Spain
Best player in Italy
Meanwhile, Messi has a team built for him by both Barcelona and Argentina.
Maybe if he'd have gone to Italy or England but he chose Paris and US.
Stayed in his comfort zone and its not even close for me. When you prove yourself in multiple leagues and countries but also work so hard to improve yourself all the time...
Messi took hormone enhancing drugs as a teen and stayed in his comfort zone.
