Everton boss Sean Dyche has told the players they won't get him sacked.

Dyche revealed what he told the players after Monday's thrashing by Chelsea.

Ahead of Sunday's clash with Nottingham Forest, Dyche said: It's a fair question – and I have absolutely gone through this with the players. Is it now just a cycle that the club is in? Every year you want a new manager, you get a new manager, you get a bounce then six months later it's: 'Boo! We want him out!' and you just keep doing that? Is that where we are at? I don't mind telling you this because people want the truth.

"After Monday I said to them: 'Is it that time of year again when you just want an easy life where you get a new manager in, you get a new manager bounce and everyone says hurrah?' I said: 'Lads, I'm not that guy. I'm staying. I'm fighting.' If you want that to happen, you help yourselves. If the fans want that to happen, so be it. I'm fighting. I'm not blaming anyone. I've never done that in my career and I'm not going to start now.

"I know the truth of what I am trying to manage here. And it is a lot. But I am up to it. If I wasn't, I wouldn't do it."