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Stuart Wilson

Sean Dyche addresses management return and Kevin Thelwell Rangers link

Sean Dyche says he currently has no plans to return to management. 

The 53-year-old is out of work following his departure from Everton earlier this season. 

Dyche has been linked with the permanent Rangers job but isn't in a rush to take up a new role: "The timing is wrong at the moment to try and get back in just because it’s the end of the season - not my timing - just that clubs will be trying to fathom out what they’re doing," he told the Stick to Football podcast.


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"I got offered a couple of things straight away but said no. But you never say never. I see other managers say it has to be the right club and I think: ‘All the best with that’.

"How are you going to find a job with the right owners, the right fans, everything? I would imagine people think I’m a fire fighter now and I just get a big hose out because that’s your job.

"I’m fine with that. I knew why I was brought into Everton. Business and CEO’s around the world bring people in to do different jobs and take them forward.

"At Everton it was my job to manage a semi-crisis type of situation. My job was to keep them in the Premier League and bring money in.

"If you want that, I can’t guarantee it but I’ll probably have a right good go at it. I’m not scared of that if someone needs that - I’m the clean-up guy then they can get one of the fashionistas after that."

Dyche worked with Rangers' current sporting director, Kevin Thelwell, at Everton, sparking natural question marks over a potential switch to Ibrox

The Englishman lifted the lid on how he and Thelwell navigated things at Goodison Park: "I spoke to Kev Thelwell and told him, I’ve been here a long time now, it’s changing - I can smell it," he said. 

"My contract was up in the summer so you don’t know how that’s going to go.

"When I got there it was in really poor shape, the whole business. We navigated it, myself, Kev, the players - everyone played their part.

"But you just feel it dwindling. I thought, I’m not going to leave when it keeps going down like that. I wanted to leave it where someone had a chance."

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