'Dyche needs wins very quickly'

BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty has been answering your questions, with a few coming in regarding Sean Dyche's future at Goodison Park.

Graham asked: Surely the end is nigh for Sean Dyche at Everton? While I appreciate his work in the past couple of years, surely this season he has really under-delivered in terms of points against who we have played? He is not attacking enough and he is just too cautious with substitutes and tactics. I'm not expecting us to be prime Barcelona but surely we should be mid-table comfortably by now, given the fixtures?

Phil answered: I totally agree about this season. Everton had a decent opening run of fixtures, so two wins from 12 games is very disappointing - as has been the standard and style of football. It has all been very sub-standard.

You can sense the growing frustration and discontent among Everton fans at what they are watching.

As I have said before, I do not see Sean Dyche as Everton manager next season. Prospective new owner Dan Friedkin will surely want his own manager in charge and Dyche's contract is up at the end of the season.

Will a decision be made earlier? There are a few things to consider here.

Who, at present, would actually make that decision while Everton wait for the Friedkin takeover to be cleared? Who would take the job with new owners possibly only weeks away?

I think the scenario the new owners would like is for Dyche to somehow keep Everton relatively safe to survive in the Premier League going into the new stadium next season, then make a change.

I can only see a potential change if Everton suddenly look in dire danger of going down - and they do have a very tough run of fixtures coming up.

However, the mood does appear to have changed over the past few weeks, so Dyche needs wins very quickly.