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Sean Dyche is a contender for the Leicester job, talk SPORT understands. The Foxes had their relegation to the Championship confirmed in April in just their first season back in the top flight. Leicester are expected to part ways with Ruud van Nistelrooy at the end of this disappointing 2024/25 season. The former striker has won just four of his 24 games in charge of the club after replacing Steve Cooper in November. Van Nistelrooy has a contract until 2027, but he is likely to leave the King Power Stadium. talk SPORT understands that Sean Dyche is among the candidates to lead them back in the EFL next season. Leicester director of football Jon Rudkin is understood to be a fan. He was twice promoted to the Premier League with Burnley, before joining Everton in 2023. Dyche was then sacked by the Toffees in January this year following a poor run of form. Despite the nature in which he left, the 53-year-old believes that his Everton tenure was a success as he insisted a lot needed changing on and off the pitch at the club. Speaking exclusively on talk SPORT in March, he said: "I was really positive about it when I left and I still am. People only see what they see and that's fine. Fans don't understand the amount that we had to do behind the scenes, not just me by the way. "There was a lot that needed doing. Another thing I need to be clear about, because when you talk about the club when you took over people presuppose its managers and all that. "I'm not questioning managers. Everyone has their own style. Everyone has their own way of doing things, but there was a lot that needed correcting. I'm not talking about just on the pitch. "All sorts of it needed correcting. I went in there with an idea of thinking it was this. And it wasn't. It was miles away from where I was. It was in a lot worse shape. I don't want people to misconstrue it. "I don't mean on the pitch. Frank [Lampard] was previous to me trying to do everything he could to get that team to win. But there was a lot of things away from the pitch. "Externally, people can measure it differently and I've always been a bit Marmite anyway. But there's probably that split of Evertonians who go, 'Yeah, but look at the job he did in the bigger picture'. "If they knew the depth of what we did not just me, the players included, and all the challenges we went through I'd be surprised if there's many who went we didn't do at least a half decent job. I think we did a very good job. So I'm very proud of it. " talk SPORT also understands that Bristol City boss Liam Manning is also in the running. He has led them to the Championship play-offs, but suffered a 3-0 defeat in the first leg to Sheffield United. © 2025 talk SPORT Limited
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