Players have had to deal with a lot in recent times - Dyche
Everton boss Sean Dyche on the difficulties the players have had to face at the club in recent times ahead of their Premier League clash with Bournemouth
Finch Farm, Liverpool, UK
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00:00Well, you want a positive result all the time. We don't deliberately make bad news. It's
00:07come our way from a couple of performances that have not been strong enough. So now it's
00:11correcting that and correcting the way that we're playing to go and win, of course. The
00:16noise around here has been around for a long time. We've been working very hard to change
00:21the narrative and the feel and it's difficult. And if you don't win games, that of course
00:25adds to it. So it's our responsibility and my responsibility as manager to make sure
00:29we do turn the corner and change and get results, along with performances. There was
00:33a good sign the other night, albeit with all due respect, I said afterwards to Don Custer,
00:38we should take care of business in that game on paper. We know it's not that easy. They
00:42pushed us really close last season at their place and I thought we gave a very strong
00:47second half and I reminded the players of the freedom that comes when you're playing
00:50like that, to go and play and the funds go with you. And I said, but we have to be the
00:54start point. The funds have been there forever and they will be. So we have to start that
00:57process when they get behind the team and can smell a good performance and they can
01:01feel a good performance. And I think second half we did that and now we've got to do it,
01:05like I said, with all due respect to Don Custer, in the Premier League, against Premier League
01:07outfit.
01:08Is it difficult to get the players to play with the freedom that you want when the pressure
01:12is on?
01:13Yes, of course, but the players here, another thing we've spoken as a group about, they've
01:16had some incredibly pressurised situations here in the last two years and before I was
01:21here. I've been here, what, 20 months? Even before that. I mean, they've had some incredibly
01:27tough times and I couldn't be more proud of these players. They've been incredible at
01:30what they've given and now we've got to give more. That's just the demand of a footballer
01:33and that should be the demand, by the way. You know, whenever you think you've given
01:35enough, you haven't. There's always another step, there's always another game, there's
01:39always another performance that needs taking care of. That's what we've got to do, go and
01:42take care of ourselves.