The biggest existential threat to Everton comes from its owners

Terrace Talk Everton: Sean Dyche will inherit a club employing their eighth 'permanent' manager in seven tumultuous years, bereft of form, confidence and competitiveness

FAVOURITE: Sean Dyche has emerged as the favourite to replace Frank Lampard at Everton. Pic: Martin Rickett/PA Wire.

Everton’s 94% owner, Farhad Moshiri, in a heavily edited video published this week, with the Chair of the Fan Advisory Board, Jazz Ball, called the period in which Everton find themselves “the most critical time in our history, almost an existential point”.

Whilst not confirmed at the time of writing, if Everton’s search for a manager concludes with Sean Dyche, then at least there’s a greater prospect of Premier League survival - the removal perhaps of one of the existential threats. His appointment may be treated with scepticism and even dread from some Evertonians, but it is, in my opinion, a pragmatic, sensible decision.