Allardyce admits interest in Everton job
Manager ready to take club ‘back to basics’ Ancelotti: I do not want any role before summer
Sam Allardyce, the former England manager, admits he would consider an approach from Everton to become their new manager.
David Unsworth, the club’s under-23s coach, has been placed in temporary charge following Ronald Koeman’s sacking a week ago but has lost his first two matches in charge. He lost a Carabao Cup tie at Chelsea and the defeat at Leicester leaves the club stuck in the bottom three of the Premier League.
Allardyce, out of work since leaving England after just one match in charge, has built a reputation on saving troubled teams and is being linked with the Goodison Park job.
“Who knows? I’d have to consider that, if that phone call happens,” he told Bein Sports. “There’s no point in speculating at the moment. David Unsworth is in the chair. Joe [Royle] sat upstairs will have an opinion 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.”
Former Bayern Munich and Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti is another of the names on the list bookmakers have in the running to be the next Everton manager.
The Italian, who has also been linked with a return to Chelsea should things not go well with Antonio Conte, has said he would not be taking any job before the end of the season but admitted a return to the Premier League interested him.
“Every day there is new speculation about my future: Croatia, China, Everton, Chelsea – don’t make my friend Antonio upset, I always talk to him,” he told Radio Anch’io Sport in his homeland.
“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. The Premier League is a very interesting league, of course. The atmosphere is amazing there, even if Bundesliga stadiums are also great.”
Others listed in betting for the Everton job are Sean Dyche, Chris Coleman and Thomas Tuchel.