Everton have sacked their manager Sean Dyche “with immediate effect”.
In a statement, the Liverpool-based football club said under-18s head coach and former player Leighton Baines, and club captain Seamus Coleman, “will take charge of first-team affairs on an interim basis”.
The club sit 16th in the Premier League and are just one point above the relegation spaces.
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Everton also said assistants Ian Woan, Steve Stone, Mark Howard and Billy Mercer have also left the club, and that the process to appoint a new manager “is under way”.
It comes just a day after West Ham sacked their head coach Julen Lopetegui and replaced him with former Brighton and Chelsea boss Graham Potter.
Dyche is the sixth Premier League manager to be sacked this season: The first was Manchester United’s Erik ten Hag in October.
Leicester City then sacked Steve Cooper in November, before Wolves dismissed Gary O’Neil on 15 December.
Russell Martin was also let go by Southampton the same day.
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It also comes after Luton Town parted ways with Rob Edwards, with the club sitting 20th in the Championship after being relegated from the Premier League last season.
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