The Toffees have won just one of their last 10 matches as they go into their away game against Bournemouth to kick off 2025, but Dyche thinks that there are different measures of success than just results.

"My job here has been endless but nobody really cares... we've saved hundreds of millions of pounds, wages, skinning the squad down, all the rest of it. It's not relevant, it's just, 'go win a game," he said.

"It depends how you measure it. I know the work we've done here. I know the work we've done financially. I know the work we've done with players. Players here are worth 10 times more than they were when we got here, so there's development."

Everton was docked a total of eight points last season for breaching profit and sustainability rules, but its manager suggested that he craved stability.

"Some managers get the luxury of going, 'your job is to just concentrate on the team and that's it' because everything else is in place. It clearly hasn't been here and it's still not. There is miles to go," he said.

Despite that, Dyche did acknowledge that his side also need to improve on the pitch as well as off it. 

"If you measure it on just winning games, we need to do better, I need to do better. If you're measuring it on the whole job, I'm pretty happy," he added. 

Andoni Iraola, meanwhile, suggested that Bournemouth's players are developing a better understanding of one another in the aftermath of their 2-2 draw against Fulham.

"We are starting to understand his [Evanilson] movements better and the ball from James Hill is a lovely ball. He had another chance but his touch is too heavy and Leno does well.

"Very positive, it has to be. But they don't give you anything for half of the season. We are starting to feel the injuries, we are quite thin of numbers."