Sean Dyche is seen as preferred choice to replace Ronald Koeman but plenty of other names are being mentioned in connection with Everton, including Carlo Ancelotti.
However, if Ancelotti was to come to Goodison Park this wouldn’t be until next season as the former Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Chelsea, among other giants, isn’t going to return to club management until the end of the current campaign.
Ancelotti was quoted by talkSPORT as telling Radio Anch’io lo Sport: ‘Every day there are new speculations about my future: Croatia, China, Everton, Chelsea – don’t make my friend Antonio upset, I always talk to him. I am looking for new opportunities but not right now. My contract [pay-off] with Bayern expires at the end of the season and that’s when I’ll start listening to new offers.’
Meanwhile, Sam Allardyce, who decided to walk away from management during the summer when he left Crystal Palace after keeping them in the Premier League, as he had Bolton, West Ham, Blackburn and Sunderland previously, has refused to rule out a return to the game at Goodison.
He told BeIN Sports, via Click Liverpool: ‘Who knows? I’d have to consider that, if that phone call happens. There’s no point in speculating at the moment, David Unsworth is in the chair. Joe [Royle] sat upstairs will have an opinion.’
The one-time England boss knows what it takes to get a club out of relegation trouble, which isn’t something the Blues would have been anticipating this season, and knows what he would do to turn things around.
However, Allardyce feels it will be ‘tough’ for us to turn it around ‘at the moment’ and getting back to basics is essential.
Allardyce added: ‘But, at the moment, it looks like it’s really going to be tough for Everton to get out of that position. They know what the problems are, they just perhaps want a bit of guidance now how to rectify those problems. I’ve been in this position a number of times in the last three clubs I’ve had and I’d just put the team back to basics.’
Ancelotti is a name that would excite many but I’m not convinced the board would be prepared to wait until the summer, at the same time would Unsworth be prepared to simply keep the seat warm for the Italian just to move on in May?
There would definitely be a split on Allardyce. Yes, he’s good at what he does, he deserves more credit than he’s often given too, but the Blues would expect more than he would offer, wouldn’t we? Of course I could be wrong.
