Everton manager Sean Dyche discusses transfers and previews the Premier League match at Sheffield United.
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00:00 I apologise for my lateness, I'm going to have to change this and I'll put it back and
00:05 then I can be late for the when I put it back. I do apologise, there's a lot going on. Late
00:11 nights and all that.
00:12 Afternoon everyone, welcome to our press conference, a preview of our game against Sheffield United.
00:21 We'll start with you Vinny from Sky.
00:23 No problem, that's Sean's got his phone off.
00:25 Sean, first of all can we get a reaction to the League Cup draw and obviously Billa
00:29 away next round?
00:30 Yeah, obviously a tough draw because they're going well, started the season well. The main
00:37 thing was to get through last night and see what comes next.
00:40 How much of a positive Beto getting off the mark instantly and also his arrival as a whole,
00:44 how much pressure does that take off someone like Dominic Calvert-Lewin?
00:46 I think, well firstly it's not about taking pressure off anyone, it's about adding to
00:51 the strike force. We've been searching for that for a long time, he's a player we've
00:55 been monitoring for a long time, a player that desperately wanted to come here so we
00:59 finally got that done. And then back to his performance, I thought, it was always, I think
01:05 I mentioned last night, his clearance came through late so we couldn't plan on him starting
01:09 but we were hoping he'd be available so the plan was always to get him on for a half if
01:14 we could, at least a half. And then I'm pleased with his performance. Quite obviously he looked
01:18 what we hope he will look. He looked physical presence but also dealing with the ball but
01:23 also stretching the pitch. I think the biggest thing for me was with a real desire. He can
01:31 run, we know that, but he can run hard and he wants to run hard and he wants to get in
01:34 the box and I think that's a very powerful thing for a striker. It sounds mad as if that's
01:38 the norm but it's the body language and the intent he drives forward with and I think
01:43 that was impressive last night. Obviously he's only just got here but that's certainly
01:47 I think laid down a mark for him to continue building on and something for us to look at
01:51 now that we've got him in the building and sort of be pleased with that's what we thought
01:55 and what we've seen and we saw it last night.
01:57 What do you have to weigh up now when deciding whether or not to start him against Sheffield United?
02:01 Well the good thing is he's played already so he's had a pre-season, he's up for it and
02:06 ready physically. You know there are some slight differences in the Premier League and
02:10 the way it is but he's certainly, I mean he's made it clear he's desperate to get involved
02:16 as quick as possible so that's good.
02:18 And Dominic Calvert-Lewin, what's the diagnosis, what's the prognosis for him?
02:21 Yeah so it's nothing that needs surgery or anything but there was a minor situation on
02:26 his sinus area that is delicate so he's got to be careful with it. The good news from
02:32 an overall picture is he's managed to train through it, not with us you understand because
02:37 of the type of injury it is but after a few days of settling he's managed to keep fit
02:41 as in his body so that's good because we want to keep him going now he's got this far.
02:44 And then as we go out on the weekend it's more of a touch and go situation, see what
02:47 the decision is and how fragile it is but no surgery or anything like that.
02:51 Is it maybe having to play in a mask or anything like that?
02:53 Yeah I don't, maybe, maybe but at this stage it's more to make sure that it doesn't get
02:58 knocked really. So it'll be touch and go over the weekend and then after that obviously
03:02 with the international break you'd say he's clear straight away.
03:05 Dwight McNeil is he available this weekend and Jack Harrison I'm presuming will be ready
03:08 after the international break?
03:09 Dwight's just back on the grass with us, as in sorry with our training, he's been on the
03:13 grass for a few days working but he's back with our training group today. So another
03:17 one we'd have to make a decision on that but he's feeling pretty strong. Jack's on the
03:22 grass with the sports science team but not quite training with us yet so he needs to
03:25 get to that stage before the next steps. He'd probably need a build up, you know, half a
03:30 game, a full game because obviously it's been a delayed period from last season which is
03:35 one of them things but he's going well and I spoke to him today and he's feeling better
03:40 about things so hopefully that just keeps progressing.
03:42 Dele's getting back on the grass slowly but surely so that's good to have him back around
03:47 it because he had a setback so we're monitoring that, with his injury that is by the way,
03:51 he's welling himself. Yeah so there's a few things that we expect anyway. Although it's
03:56 not ideal because we're stretched but after the international break then I think a lot
04:00 of these people will be fit again or certainly very close to.
04:04 Obviously a transfer window's about to shut, what's happening with Alex Iwobi and his future?
04:07 Yeah look there's a few, circling a few of our players, he's one of them. There's nothing
04:12 in agreement yet but there's him and Tom Cannon, similar sort of situations, a number of clubs
04:18 circling their situations.
04:20 With that in mind, would it weaken the squad terribly if Alex were to go? What do you have
04:25 to weigh up as regards whether you allow him to go now because he's only got a year left
04:29 on his contract?
04:30 Yeah exactly, the obvious thing that's been, I think it's been apparent, although I still
04:34 had to spell it out last week, it was a bit odd, you know, the club have to look at the
04:38 business side of it and there is a business side of it quite obviously, the player with
04:42 a year left, Tom slightly differently. Money's not free flowing so it has to be looked at.
04:48 Is there also an indication then that you're maybe confident of getting in a replacement,
04:52 being a winger?
04:53 You can be as confident as you want, you know, the fact is it's got to be done, deals have
04:57 got to be done, there's got to be money available. So if anything happens with them two players
05:01 then we'll quickly assess what can be done next. We've already seen monitoring situations
05:05 for our own, I mean, not about them, I mean of our own avenues we could go down but at
05:11 the end of the day you need the finance to make them work so we'll find out over the
05:14 next couple of days obviously.
05:15 I take it you work into the wires as regards bringing players in then as well, what is
05:19 the priority? I mean is it a winger, is it a midfielder, centre half, even another striker
05:23 again?
05:24 Well I think the obvious one, if these things change with Alex, Tom, is the wide areas because
05:31 we're the injury side of things as well. The front area, I mean, we're trying to find that
05:38 balance. You saw with Yousef, I made it clear the other week, he's a young player learning,
05:42 you saw that good experience for him. It's going to take him time to adapt to what it
05:46 is. We're better longer in his learning obviously. Tom coming back to full fitness and it's seeing
05:52 what's available. The market's unforgiving at the best of times so we've been trying
05:57 to stay on situations, seeing if they open up. Obviously it's been a delay because of
06:01 the finances, that's been tricky. We are managing to, so far, whether it's loans, whether it's
06:06 signings, to find our way and it's very difficult.
06:09 I meant to mention Demare as well. If he goes to Saudi then there's a few more days beyond.
06:15 Just another one, there's a couple of situations swirling around.
06:20 What are you expecting from Sheffield United? Obviously last week we saw a spirited performance
06:22 against Manchester City. I suppose you're expecting a tough battle there as well?
06:27 Yeah I went to the game. They're an outfit that work very hard to get to where they've
06:31 got to. The manager there has worked hard with them, he doesn't mind playing direct
06:35 when they need to and that kind of working ethic football, which is something that should
06:40 be a given anyway but they certainly do. They work as a unit, they work very hard, they've
06:44 got a team-ship about them which serve them so well. They put up a good show against them.
06:51 Man City side, sorry, they won't forgive me for saying that. Man City side are very good,
06:55 we know the prowess they've got. Last night when I went against them, that's the way it
07:00 goes but they're new to the division. They'll have that kind of crowd behind them, that
07:04 new feel to take on the game. We've performed well, we haven't won but we've performed well
07:09 two out of three. We got the job done last night so we'll see what's in, we can piece
07:14 together and see if we can go there and take it on with a proper performance like the last
07:17 two out of three but we've got to score goals, we've said that all along.
07:20 And finally for me, obviously we've spoken about the first half performance against Villa
07:23 and the first half performance last night as well. What can you do differently to really
07:28 set the tone in those first half?
07:30 First of all last night's a completely different animal. Villa I thought were very good on
07:33 the day and we were a long way off. That can happen, last night was a different situation.
07:39 Everyone's desperate for us to lose obviously, just by the nature of cup games. Not in a
07:43 vicious way but it's just the way it is. A group in the first half, some of the younger
07:49 players playing, it's a big experience for them, big expectation on that game. Donnie
07:53 made it very awkward and that cup feel. Second half I thought we gave a relatively strong,
07:59 certainly strong enough to win the game. So yeah, good in different ways I think but it's
08:04 a different style of game than what the Villa game was.
08:07 Thanks Vinny, we'll go to Richard.
08:09 Sean, just circling back to Beto, the manner with which he conducted himself when he came
08:14 on the pitch last night scoring a goal, just how much of a lift has that given everybody
08:18 around the club?
08:20 Well I think the idea was that get someone in who can be effective, get someone in who's
08:25 different to what we've got obviously and someone we've had track for a while. When
08:29 they go and deliver that kind of performance and have that impact then of course it's beneficial
08:33 to the side but it's also beneficial to the fans. The fans have been well aware for a
08:36 long time now of that idea of getting a focal point in the team, another centre forward,
08:42 a different way of operating and he certainly showed that. But yeah, mainly just another
08:47 weapon. We want as many as we can and I think if you get goalscorers scoring it often releases
08:52 the kind of feel of other players to go and score. They feel a bit freer because a goalscorer
08:57 scoring so we want that. We don't want it just from him, we want it from all of our
09:01 goalscorers of course and other players on the pitch. I've mentioned that, it's important
09:04 we have the mindset to score from everywhere on the pitch as many times as possible obviously
09:09 but it is fair to say if you've got strikers performing and scoring well that's got to
09:12 be a massive benefit.
09:14 And on Sheffield United, you mentioned a new club in the Premier League, fans excited.
09:18 On Paul Heckingbottom, what are your thoughts on the job he's done there because it's not
09:23 been the easiest period by all accounts, you can relate to that from your experience but
09:28 he's got them into the Premier League and he's got them playing at a place that can
09:32 be quite intimidating at times.
09:33 Yeah, I've known him on and off for a while, congratulated him at the end of last season.
09:38 I know it's a tough task and he's done great with them. Not going a million miles away
09:44 from the format they've used, do not. I think there's a period they signed quite a lot of
09:48 players a few years ago, they're trying to do maybe different things for whatever reasons,
09:52 maybe financial, maybe constructing the club at large I should say or as a whole, even
09:58 better and I think some of the players there are still working as a unit and I think it
10:01 looks like he's got value in that and he wants to stick with that.
10:04 So that can be a weapon of course, we've got to make sure that our own unit performs and
10:09 find the moments that are important to us and find ways of winning games and that's
10:13 what we're looking to do.
10:14 Is there a greater emphasis in this environment on starting the game? Well you've referred
10:18 to Villaren last night obviously but you know what you're going to get.
10:21 With the other games we haven't just started them well, I think our consistency through
10:24 the two home games has been really good, apart from obvious a couple of mistakes that cost
10:29 us, but mistakes at the other end, putting the ball in the net.
10:32 So I think they're the things we've got to correct, both boxes, not give away soft ones
10:36 at the defending end and also take some of the many chances we've made, start taking
10:41 them.
10:42 How significant was it for Arno Dan D'Uma to score his first goal for the club?
11:00 He's come in, he didn't play much last in so he's still learning about how we want him
11:04 to operate.
11:06 That fitness has come in, the real depth of fitness and really getting used to the players
11:10 around him I think, so it was good to see him score a goal.
11:13 He's still adapting to what we want from him, but no we think he'll be a good player for
11:18 us.
11:19 How are you looking at the international break now because obviously with the transfer window
11:22 yet to close, then there's the break and then you could have a number of players maybe back
11:27 available to you again.
11:28 Is it almost like you don't quite have the team that you hope you're going to have maybe
11:32 a couple of months down the line yet?
11:35 We started the season with the end of pre-season we started losing a couple of bodies and then
11:42 all of a sudden you go into the season and you think we've got some good players here
11:45 suddenly not available.
11:47 Then we lost Alex at Villa as well and Dom and then all of a sudden you start looking
11:50 stretched.
11:51 We lost a couple last night which we hope are not too serious with Mikko going off and
11:54 a couple of knocks, we're hoping they're not too serious, they'll settle down today.
12:00 It's not ideal, especially when you add in the window and you add in the reasons there
12:03 was and where for and how tough it's been in the window for us to get the players we
12:06 wanted to get.
12:08 But this is the challenge, this is the reality, I speak about it all the time because it is.
12:12 I've been trying to get to reality line and say right this is where it's at and we're
12:16 kind of there.
12:18 Within that, in the league mainly, with two very positive performances they just don't
12:23 look at it because you don't get a result.
12:24 Nobody cares about positive performances, nobody cares whether you're stretched or not
12:28 but I still have to give them the facts.
12:30 This is the truth of where we're at.
12:33 It's our job to change all those things around, start scoring goals quite obviously, keeping
12:37 clean sheets or certainly low goals against and then winning games.
12:41 That's the reality of it.
12:42 I can tell you a million different things, reasons why but that's the facts.
12:46 Stop it at one end and put it in the other.
12:47 I always speak to the players, that's the brutal facts of it, that's the job.
12:51 So that's what we're looking to do and we've got to do it again this weekend.
12:53 Are you concerned that there might be an effect on squad numbers in terms of some people go
13:05 out and you might start difficulty in getting them replaced and them like for like in numbers?
13:09 Yeah, again that's where we're at.
13:12 That's where the club's at.
13:13 It's not, if we had loads of money to be proactive before pre-season, every manager in the ideal
13:19 world wants the players in before the first day's training pre-season.
13:23 But it's just simply not that easy.
13:25 Not many clubs want to sell at that stage either because they try and work the market
13:28 and expand the market, make the numbers grow.
13:32 And then usually that implies you need a fair bit of money to make that happen earlier into
13:35 the transfer, sorry into the pre-season period.
13:38 It often starts getting towards the end of the pre-season period before the first game
13:42 of the season and then it goes on to where we are now which is the last few days and
13:45 then there's usually some activity.
13:48 And we haven't been in front of that activity for financial situations of course.
13:52 So now we've had to wait and we've managed to construct deals where we were capable of
13:57 doing and the other parties agreed.
13:59 But then we've got to see what the next, what is it, 40 hours or so brings.
14:02 That's just the reality of where it's at.
14:04 I can't emphasise that enough.
14:05 People get asked me, that's the reality, that's my job is to manage the reality.
14:08 It's everyone else's job to put in the myths and the perception.
14:12 Mine's to look at the realities of what the challenge is and work with the group we've
14:15 got and add to it where we can and that's what we're still looking to do.
14:18 I just mean in terms of the balance of numbers, obviously if you're going to lose somebody,
14:21 that's a body out of the squad you've got to replace but are you going to be allowed
14:25 to lose them if you can't get an immediate replacement?
14:28 Yeah but that's what I was just suggesting.
14:30 There's a business to run as well.
14:33 So in a certain situation the business has to say right we're going to have to do that.
14:36 That's the challenge of it.
14:37 And then if we can't get anyone in, well that's part of it.
14:40 It's the risk or reward of player trading.
14:42 And usually you can only win that battle if you've got plenty of money to start with in
14:46 the first place where you're proactive, you get the players in you want and then you look
14:50 at the outs.
14:51 But we're having to look at it differently.
14:52 That's just the time and place we're in at at the football club.
15:03 Yeah.
15:12 Thanks.
15:22 Thanks.
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