Sean Dyche claims being Everton manager is like ‘juggling sand’ as the Toffees boss looks to stop the endless negativity at the club and lead them to Premier League safety

Being manager of Everton is like ‘juggling sand’, according to boss Sean Dyche who also compared trying to stop the endless negative noise at the club to ‘putting your fingers in the dam’.

The Toffees won their first home Merseyside Derby since 2010 with a 2-0 win over Liverpool on Wednesday but the club is still hamstrung by financial crises and a protracted takeover saga with the Premier League at odds with prospective American owners 777 Partners at odds.

Five senior players are out of contract in the summer including club captain Seamus Coleman, impressive midfielder Idrissa Gana Gueye, plus experienced heads Ashley Young, Andre Gomes and former England star Dele Alli.

Two others, Jack Harrison and Arnaut Danjuma, are only on loan. Transfer business in the last few windows has been extremely limited, with Everton dealing mainly in cheap deals and loans in order to balance the financial books.

That is likely to continue this summer and Everton might be forced to sell a key asset to help cut losses after the latest set of accounts showed they were £89.1million in the red. 

The Toffees secured their first win over Liverpool at Goodison Park since 2010 in midweek 

Dyche has had to deal with two points deduction in Everton’s relegation battle this season 

The club have already had two points deductions and could face another Premier League D-Day next year.

‘I am waiting to see the realities of what we can and can’t do,’ said Dyche. ‘It’s been a constant here, and not just about players. 

There’s always something going on here, it is like juggling sand. How do you master that?

‘Every time we go, ‘Yes, that’s good’, something crops up and it’s, ‘That’s not good, now we have to solve that’. 

Seamus Coleman is one of several senior players who are out of contract this season 

‘It’s like putting your fingers in the dam. Because the club is in this flux we can’t guarantee one way or the other so we are shifting, moving and moulding as we can.’ 

Everton can guarantee safety on Saturday against Brentford if they make it three straight wins and Luton fail to beat Wolves. 

The Toffees will be without Vitalii Mykolenko, who suffered a nasty ankle injury against Liverpool. Dominic Calvert-Lewin should be OK after an illness.