Sean Dyche weighing up Everton players’ contracts before dishing out new deals

On Feb 28, 2023

Sean Dyche will assess Everton players heading out of contract this summer before new deals are handed out.

Abdoulaye Doucoure’s current contract is up this summer but the club have an option to extend that by a further year. Yerry Mina, Tom Davies and Seamus Coleman are three others who have their deals expiring at the end of the current season.

While Everton have an option to buy Conor Coady from Wolves when his loan deal finishes at the end of May. But Toffees boss Dyche won’t rush into making decisions on their futures before he gets a good look at the squad as he prepares for just his fifth game in charge tonight against Arsenal.

“You are looking for consistency of performance,” he said. “But you are also looking for consistency as professionals and people.

“Having known someone for three weeks and four games, you don’t know everything. Can they keep developing, can they keep progressing?

“It’s very hard to work that out in three or four weeks. I have been in the Premier League a long time. I know who these players are but I don’t know them as people.

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Sean Dyche will have some big decisions to make
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“What is their mood? Do they still want to be at the club? Do they want to be a part of the group? It is a two-way thing.” But Dyche, whose side can lift themselves out of the bottom three if they pull off a shock win at the Emirates, admits the players will also have a say on their future.

He added: “They aren’t coming to me straight away saying “what are you going to do about my future?” They know we have just got here. “It’s about building that rapport and belief with each other and they have got to want to buy into it. “Players are powerful these days. They might have different views about their future than you. Those views will be gathered along the way.”

EVERTON (4-2-3-1) likely XI vs Arsenal:Pickford; Coleman, Coady, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Iwobi, Doucoure, Gueye, Onana, McNeil; Maupay.