Sean Dyche, the Everton manager, has said he would be surprised if the club’s new owners are not considering replacing him as he vowed to fight to save his job.

Dyche is out of contract at the end of this season and the Friedkin Group (TFG) must decide whether to extend his deal or headhunt a coach to lead the club into a new era.

After two years in the role, Dyche said he is realistic about the board’s considerations. Asked if his position should be under scrutiny, he said: “To be clear, it should be. At the end of the day, if you’re a business of this size and this club, succession planning should be part of their diligence. I’ve got no problem with that at all. I think that should be ongoing at every football club. That’s part of the business, surely. I’m sure it is in what we’d call normal business life, but outside of football. So, I’ve never really concerned myself with that.

“We’ve got to win games. We haven’t won enough this season. We’ve got to make sure the team’s operating the right way. We’ve got to try to please everyone all of the time and that’s the job. We haven’t done that often enough and it comes down to me, without any shadow of a doubt.”

There have been suggestions Dyche is in immediate danger of being sacked, although within the club the message has been there has been no change in position since TFG took control in December.

They bought the club intent on a thorough review of all football operations between now and the end of the season, in the short-term giving Dyche a chance to stake his claim for a new deal. To sack him will cost money so if a change is to be made, the preference is for the next manager to start afresh in pre-season.

Results and performances can rapidly alter circumstances, however, making Thursday’s FA Cup tie with Peterborough United and upcoming Premier League fixtures pivotal as Everton look to salvage their season and escape the relegation battle.

“They [the owners] want better outcomes from winning games, of course,” said Dyche. “I think there’s a reality to the situation. That’s all I know.

“They’ve been very straight with me and very upfront about it. I know the industry that I’m in. Ten years in the Premier League teaches that.”

Asked if discussions with other managers – ex-Brighton and Chelsea coach Graham Potter has been reported as a possible candidate – undermine his position, Dyche said: “No, like I say, whether they have or they haven’t, they certainly have not told me that. If they have, I don’t know how it works in the privacy world of it all. But if they have, it’s succession planning. I think that should be part of the way that any business operates. Certainly if it was my business, I’d be operating like that. I’d be looking and going, what happens if that happens?

“There’s no uncertainty. No uncertainty for me. My certainty is to win games. That doesn’t change. You know it is all alleged all these things. There’s no facts. Nobody has come out and said ‘by the way we are talking to all these people’. It is only alleged. That’s the way it works. Nothing changes for me. Try to get the team right, win the game and do the right thing which I am doing. I’m working really hard with my staff and the players, taking the hits, absorbing them and making sure everyone knows it is on me. End of.”

Dyche is also sure he can improve his and the team’s situation.

“I’ve had confidence all of my life,” he said. “I don’t know why. I’ve got ginger hair and was mocked for most of my life!. But it is just an inbuilt thing. I’ve no particular reason for it. My parents are good, decent people. They worked hard. It is just instinct. I took my knocks, you know that, and I still take loads of them. Resilience is a strange thing in life and I have plenty of it.”