Developing clinical players is the toughest job in football - Dyche
Sean Dyche insists there's no easy fix to get his Everton side scoring goals
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00:00Yes, it's another strange thing, it's like, you know, it's a fair question, I don't mind it, but it's sort of like, we don't offer them to not score goals, you know, we're trying to get them to score goals, so it's like, you know, people say, what are you going to do about it?
00:14But Arsene Wenger used to say this, I know it's a bit of a dirty word here, but Arsene Wenger used to say this, he used to say, Sean, he said, your job is to look after the back, the middle and the sides of the pitch, the chairman looks after the box.
00:26Quite profound words, and if you think of it in its simplicity, we all know what he means, and that's a challenge, if it was that easy, he would have been developing centre forwards left right and centre, but he was generally buying them.
00:36If you look across the, Man City are a great example, and I've used this before in the sense that, arguably, I don't know every detail, they probably can scout the whole globe for the best youngsters in the world, but how many come through their ranks and become centre forwards, or become ones that are Man City legends, let's say?
00:53Think of it, if it was that easy, we'd all be developing strikers and they'd all be brilliant, so when they say, how are you going to make them all clinical, I go, well, we're just going to keep working and keep finding different ways, maybe their best kind of way they can score goals and try and get them in an area and give them the ammunition to score their best goals.
01:10But generally speaking, it's always the toughest, the clinical edge in football, particularly at this level, is always the thing that Man City are looking out for.