Sean Dyche has not yet been directly told he is set to lose a key Everton asset in the transfer market but it “likely” has to happen, according to the Daily Mail.
The paper reported via their website on 5 April that despite selling more than £100million worth of players since the manager arrived at Goodison there is a high chance another big-money exit will need to happen to balance the books.
Jarrad Branthwaite and Amadou Onana have been widely linked with a number of interested clubs, and although Dyche previously claimed there were not issues at the club which would require the former to leave that situation appears wide of the mark heading into the summer market after the accounts released last weekend revealed a loss of £89.1m for the year 2022/23.
The apparently-probable loss of another key player comes as the former Burnley boss has insisted that the financial worries at the club, which look set to necessitate the exit, would never have been allowed to develop if he was in charge previously.
He said: “I am a custodian, I need to look after the club as best as I can,’ he added. ‘I will be judged on whether I win or lose but I know this club is in a healthier position than when I got here.
If someone wants to give me £200m I will have a go at spending it, but if it is £200m at the cost of the club I will go, ‘No, you can’t’.
