'How has that happened?!' – Sean Dyche reveals shock at discovering Everton points deduction during ill-fated Goodison Park reign

Sean Dyche has revealed he was stunned when he discovered that Everton had been deducted 10 points in the 2021-22 season.

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Dyche has revealed his astonishment at discovering the extent of Everton's points deduction during his time at the club. With no idea a 10-point hit was coming for breaches of financial rules, Dyche recalled receiving a phone call from director of football Kevin Thelwell, whilst out of the country, and initially thinking it was a joke.

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Everton eventually had their points deduction reduced from 10 to six on appeal, and they stayed up by a total of four points. They would later be hit with another deduction of two points the following season, and the former Toffees boss has lifted the lid on his tumultuous spell at Goodison Park.

WHAT SEAN DYCHE SAID

Dyche told Stick to Football: "It’s no one’s exact fault, there’s a number of people, it’s not just one person’s fault. Mr. (Farhad) Moshiri took a lot of stick, but he wasn’t making every decision – there are 30 people in the offices who have jobs and he’s not running that every day.

“Some of the people in the offices were still running the business. Me and Kevin Thelwell were trying to pull together things, using common sense, like contracts and who we’d have to sell. The brief is, I’ve got to bring money in, so whether I like him or not [a player], some of them are playing because we’ve got to try and sell them. You’re not going to get the same money for a player if they’re not playing, so you have to try and play them enough to win a game, then you have to win a game to get some money in.

“The next season, I’m sitting in Dubai, and I get a phone call from Kevin, who asks if I’m sitting down. He goes, ‘We’ve just been deducted 10 points’. I went, ‘Ey?’ I’d never even been told anything about it. I thought, ‘What on earth is going on – where has that snowballed from the day I walked into this. How has that happened without any form of me knowing anything?’”

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Everton currently sit 13th in the Premier League table under the guidance of David Moyes. They face Southampton and Newcastle in their final two games of the season.